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10th Grade
12/19/2006

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Magna Carta
Definition
documents restrictions on royal power;
marked the beginning of constitutional gov. in England
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William the Conquerer
Definition
Duke of Normandy
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_____murdered Becket
Definition
Henry II's knights
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White Rose
Definition
House of York
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Red Rose
Definition
House of Lancaster
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Henry II
Definition
battled church abuses
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Thomas Becket
Definition
Archbishop of Canterbury
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Henry III
Definition
parliament
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Black Death lost...
Definition
1/3rd of the population
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Pilgrimage
Definition
Holy journey
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Peasants Revolt
Definition
revolt demanding an end to serfdom
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Type of Government during this time
Definition
Feudalism
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Political
Definition
feudalism
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Economic
Definition
Manorism
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Lord or Overlord
Definition
Person granting property
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Vassal
Definition
Person receiving property; pledged faithfulness by vowing FEALTY
promised a service...ACT OF HOMAGE
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Barons
Definition
king's supporters
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Fiefs
Definition
Parcels of land granted to barons
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Knights
Definition
smaller parcels of land--manors
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Peasants
Definition
serfs
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Manors became the basic ___ community of the feudal system.
Definition
economic
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The Largest Trading Center
Definition
London
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Townspeople oragnized themselves into ____
Definition
guilds
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Lollards
Definition
"poor preists"
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Crusades
(what centuries? main purpose?)
Definition
11th-13th centuries
MP: recapture holy Land from the Turks/Muslims
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John Wycliffe
Definition
opposed all forms of weath among the clergy, scorned monks
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French poets
Definition
troubadours
Term
roman influenced languaged songs
Definition
Romances
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Oxford
Definition
1st univiersity
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Roger Bacon
Definition
scientist/mathematician, wrote OPUS MAJUS
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Printing Press (when, who?)
Definition
1454 JOHANN GUTENBERG
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William Caxton
Definition
invented first movable-type printing press in ENGLAND
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William Langland
Definition
wrote Piers Plowman
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Piers Plowman
Definition
an allegory-written symbolically
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Definition
wrote THE CANTERBURY TALES
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2 Types of Literature
Definition
Poetry , drama
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_______________ became popular in the 15th century, depicted the life of an ordinary person
Definition
Morality plays
Term
Most famous morality play is called _________
Definition
EVERYMAN
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Earliest dramas
Definition
miracle or mystery plays
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