Medieval europe

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Mayors of the palace
taken office by charles martel 714 CE
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Battle of tours
732 CE charles martel defeated muslim army in this battle
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English channel
separates europe and great britain, battle ensured that christianity would remain western europes major religion
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Holy roman empire
ottos territory , included most of present day germany
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Germanic people
people who lived germanic kingdoms
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The Franks
strongest germanic group, 481 CE clovis became their king, they were christian
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King Clovis
became frank’s king in 481, first germanic ruler to accept christianity
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Charles Martel
took office of “mayors of the palace”, wanted to stop islam from spreading, defeated muslim army at battle of tours, father of pepin
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Pepin
became mayor of palace, then became king of franks, 754 ce fought the lombards and defeated them, then gave the pope some of their land in italy, became known as pepal states
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Charlamagne
firstly known as charles and became king of franks, forced saxons to convert to christianity, by 800 ce his kingdom had grown into an empire, his conquests won him the name of charlamagne, on christmas day pope crowned him the new roman emperor, wanted to advance learning, reigned for 47 yrs
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duke otto of saxony
936 CE he was elected king of germany, powerful ruler, defeated magyars, freed pope from control of roman nobles, crowned emperor of the romans in 962 CE, territory became known as holy roman empire
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***feudalism***
social system in middle ages,
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battle of hastings
1066 ce william the duke of normandy landed his army in england and he defeated and english noble named herald godwinson and his forces at this battle
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guilds
business groups that decided things for the business
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domesday book
first cencus in britain since roman times was recorded in this
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habeas corpus
part of common law by the 1200s ce, order to bring a jailed person before a judge to find out wether that person should be in jail
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grand jury
decided wether people should be accused of a crime
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trial jury
decided wether a person was innocent of guilty
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magna carta
a document that placed limits on kings power
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great council
group of nobles that was called to make decisions if the king could place taxes due to the magna carta
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parlament
increased authority of the council, important step towards representative government
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capetian dynasty
1987 ce nobles made hugh capit king and he began the dynasty of french kings
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estates general
meeting of 3 groups, representative assembly, in group 1 was the clergy or priests, in group 2 was nobles, group 3 had merchants townspeople and peasants
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keivan russ
medieval state
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crusade
series of religious wars between christians and the muslims, secure control holy sights, crusades were between 1096-1291
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normans
vikings descendants
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king john
abused his power so people created magna carta to make limits
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slavs
established villages and towns along the rivers of europe, seperated into northern slavs, western slavs, and eastern slavs
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saladin
one of muslims generals, recaptured jerusalem from the europeans
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pope urban II
byzantine emperor who asked for military aid to save his christian empire from the muslims during the crusades
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romanesque
style of archetecture, churches with this style had long heavy rounded ceiling with thick pillars and little light
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gothic
larger, airier, colorful stained class, replaced heavy walls with flying buchesses
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theology
study of religion
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scholasticism
ideas accepted on faith didn’t have to contradict ideas developed on reason
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vernacular
local languages specail to certain cities/places, ex.- italian, spanish, french, and german
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troubador
type of vernacular literature that often included singing love poems
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friar
men in religious orders
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mass
religious ceremony on sundays for catholics/christians
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heresy
ideas that conflicted with church teachings
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inquisition
church court that questioned and dealed with people accused of heresy
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anti semetism
hostility towards jews
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roger bacon
monk who turned from teaching theology to studying the natural world
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thomas aquinas
italian friar that became one of scholasticism greatest thinkers
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bernard of clairveux
famous cictercian monk that supported the second the second crusade
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dominique de guzman
started dominican order in 1216, chief goal was to defend the teachings of the church
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black death
great famine and also known as the bubonic plague