Ring around the Rosies
A deadly bacterial disease that is carried by fleas and spread by flea infested rats.
it killed up to 2/3 of its victims within about four days of infection.
What is the BUBONIC PLAGUE
He was only 9 years old when he took the throne so a council of regents ruled England in his place.
Who was King Henry III?
He was one of England’s mightiest and cruelest fighting kings. His nickname was Longshanks because of his great height.
Who is King Edward I?
the ancient stone upon which all Scottish kings received their crowns. According to legend, it is the same stone that Jacob used as a pillow on the night when he saw angels climbing up and down a ladder from heaven to earth (Genesis 28:10- 22). When Edward invaded Scotland in 1296, he captured it and took it back
What is the Stone of Destiny?
one of England’s most hated kings— so hated that when his wife Isabella rebelled against him, he could not find many Englishmen who were willing to defend him. This king died a prisoner, probably on the orders of his wife and her lover Roger Mortimer.
Who was King Edward II?
A terrible epidemic of the bubonic plague that began in China and spread to Europe and north Africa during the late 1340s.
Within just a few years it killed tens of millions of people, wiping out anywhere from 30-60% of Europe's human population.
What is the BLACK DEATH?
a meeting where the barons met to discuss new limits on the kings power
What is the Oxford Parliament?
Edward I was the king who conquered Wales, making it a permanent dependency of the English Crown. Because of this, from Edward’s time down through modern times, nearly every heir to England’s throne has borne this title.
What is the “Prince of Wales” ?
The mighty English fighting king who won the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War.
Who was King Edward III?
Before the this, armored knights on horseback were nearly invulnerable to attacks from horseless peasants. After the longbow, knights were extremely vulnerable to iron-tipped arrows fired by well-practiced peasant archers.
What is the long-bow?
A beak-like breathing mask that was filled with sweet smelling blend of flower petals, herbs and spices designed to sweeten the foul orders or miasmas, that causes disease.
What is a Plague Doctor's Costume?
When Henry tried to set the Provisions of Oxford aside, this rebel baron launched the Second Barons’ War against him. He captured both Henry III and his son, Prince Edward, at the Battle of Lewes.
Who is Simon de Montfort?
in this agreement, Scotland and France agreed that if England attacked either of them, then the other would join the war.
What is the Auld Alliance?
Henry won a great victory over the Burgundians here, followed by more victories in the years to come.
In this battle he executes hundreds perhaps even thousands of French prisoners
What is the Battle of Agincourt?
a inspiring peasant girl from Domremy, France who turned the Hundred Years’ War into a holy war for the Dauphin’s cause.
Who was Joan of Arc?
Some goverments started killing all of these because they believed they were spreading the plague.
What are cats and dogs?
England’s barons placed even more limits on Henry’s power in this new document which created a council of 24 nobles to oversee the king.
What are The Provisions of Oxford?
The uncommonly large, strong and clever Scot who resisted King Edward I with every fiber of his being during the First War of Scottish Independence.
"Guardian of Scotland"
Who is William Wallace?
This ended the war’s first phase, England won back much of its kings’ former territory in France.
What is the Treaty of Bretigny?
In May 1381, angry peasants started attacking Richard II’s tax collectors. That June, three peasant leaders named Wat Tyler, John Ball and Jack Straw led as many as 10,000 angry peasants in to London, where they demanded a meeting with their 14-year-old king.
What is the Peasants' Revolt?
Bathing plague victims in vinegar or urine.
Drawing blood from plague victims, using either knives or leeches.
Lancing the buboes, then using a mixture of butter onion and garlic to draw out the infection.
Using toads or other superstitious remedies to draw out the infection.
Treating the plague like a poison. Some doctors extracted pus from infected victims wounds and then fed the pus to the uninfected in the hopes of helping them build an immunity to the plague.
What are some of the treatments doctors used?
During his brief time as near-king, Simon de Montfort invited non-noble local leaders from all over England to participate in a national council. This council was the forerunner of Parliament’s lower house whose members need not be nobles.
What is the House of Commons?
In this battle, Wallace dealt the English their first serious defeat and began the Wars of Scottish independence.
What is the Battle of Stirling Bridge?
a battle for France’s throne that began in the time of King Edward III, and continued off and on from 1337 – 1453.
What is the Hundred Years War?
agreed in 1420 between Henry V and Charles the Mad, Henry V became heir to the throne of France. Henry also married Charles the Mad’s daughter, who gave him a son the following year— the future King Henry VI. To sit on the throne of France as well as England, all Henry V needed to do was survive until Charles the Mad died.
What is the Treaty of Troyes?