Magna Carta
This English king was forced by rebellious barons to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.
What is King John?
The Hundred Years’ War was fought mainly between these two countries.
What are England and France?
Joan of Arc claimed she heard these divine figures telling her to help France.
What are saints / heavenly voices?
The Black Death was caused by this disease.
What is the bubonic plague?
This group of nobles forced King John to agree to limits on royal power in 1215.
Who were the barons?
The Magna Carta limited the power of this political position for the first time in English history.
What is the monarchy?
This war was actually not one long war but a series of conflicts spanning more than this number of years.
What is 100+ years / 116 years?
At age 17, Joan convinced this French leader to let her join the fight.
Who is the Dauphin / Charles VII?
The plague was carried by fleas that lived on these animals.
What are rats?
This document guaranteed that even the king had to follow the law and protect people’s rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
This famous document guaranteed that even the king was not above this.
What is the law?
This powerful medieval weapon, used by English archers, could shoot arrows that pierced armor.
What is the longbow?
Joan of Arc was captured by the English allies from this region of France.
Who are the Burgundians?
The Black Death killed roughly this fraction of Europe’s population.
What is one-third?
After being captured by the Burgundians, Joan was sold to this rival nation, who put her on trial.
Who are the English?
One grievance the barons had was that King John placed heavy and unfair demands for this—money owed to the crown.
What are taxes?
This major French city was besieged by the English before a teenage girl helped turn the tide.
What is Orléans?
In 1431, Joan was executed by being burned at the stake and later declared one of these by the Catholic Church.
What is a saint?
Because so many workers died, surviving peasants could demand more of this.
What are wages / better pay?
Because so many workers died, surviving peasants could demand higher wages—contributing to the decline of this medieval social system.
What is feudalism?
The Magna Carta protected nobles from unfair taxes and guaranteed this right—still important today in courts.
What is the right to a trial by jury?
The Hundred Years’ War helped create stronger national identities in both England and France, a feeling known as this.
What is nationalism?
The English accused Joan of committing this religious crime—going against accepted church teachings.
What is heresy?
The plague spread rapidly across Europe due to this type of widespread disease event.
What is an epidemic?
The plague arrived in Europe in 1347 when ships from this sea region brought infected rats and fleas to Sicily.
What is the Black Sea?