history exam

Empire:, a group of countries controlled by one government or person

Colony: country under the political control of another country

fyrd : part-time army

Crusade : a religious war by Christians versus Muslims

Magna Carta : made by King John a promise to respect the rights of the church and barons to stop unfair taxes and trials were held quickly .signed in 1215

yeoman : a richer farmer who owns land

serf: a peasant who was a slave owned by the Lord

From 43 ad to 410 ad southern Britain was part of the Roman world

A monk called Augustine spread Christianity

England's main religion in 600 A.D. was Christianity

King Alfred was crowned King and 871 A.D.

Alfred separated England

Translated many religious texts

Alfred organised a Fyrd

He could read and write in Latin

Built 30 towns known as buhrs

When Alfred died, it was 200 years till another king knew how to read and write

Leo bless him

Prevented Wessexs downfall by fighting with Vikings

Edward the Confessor died fifth of January of food poisoning eating Christmas dinner

No heir, Harold Godwinson becomes king not for long

Very religious

Battle of Fulford

Harold H invade England and Harold Godwinson stepbrother betrays him

Harold H invaded with 300 ships carrying at 10,000 men

Hardrada won the war and faced the English shield wall

Battle of Stamford Bridge(part two of Battle of Fulford)

Harold, the G heard about the invasion and mustered the army to march to the north of England in five days

Hardrada was taken by surprise as him and his soldiers were relaxing. Hardradas was killed.

Harold Godwinson was very tired as he wrote 180 km. William took the opportunity and attacked. William had a popel banner from the Pope. They threw insults at the English and Harold G dies.

Williams control

Scaring people

Normans built the first proper castles in England

The Bailey was the living area for the soldiers and commoners

Mongolian empire

Controlled Russia, China, Korea, Turkey, central Asia, and Iran

Ruler was Genghis Khan

His mother was kidnapped

Gave woman a ride to divorce

Ripped enemies woman's babies out of the room

Wiped out 10% of the population

Mali empire

Capital was Naomi ruler was Mansa musa founded in 1235

Mansa Moosa was considered the richest man ever his fortune would be worth around 400 billion in today's currency

European 1800 town

A lot of soldiers

Cathedral

Water pumps

Bayside docs

Tall varied buildings

Japanese 1800 town

Not many soldiers

No religion based buildings

WellS

No docks

Not much variety in buildings

Symptoms of a black death, cough, up blood shivers and joint pain

Black death killed 1.5 to 2m

Began in central Asia 1338

He broke with Rome and changed the religion of England from Catholic to Protestant

He made a new religion called the Church of England England. He did this because the pope didn't want to give him a divorce with his first wife.

Monasteries were loyal to the pope not the king Henry shut them down

Romans invented a system called aqueduct