Took an army of knights to the coast of England and defeated King Harold's army at the Battle of Hastings. Later crowned King of England.
Who is William of Normandy
100
Capital of France.
What is Paris
100
The Great Charter of rights which King John was forced to sign by the English nobles at Runnymede in 1215.
What is Magna Carta
200
Law that was common to the whole kingdom.
What is common law
200
Contests where knights could demonstrate their fighting skills
What is a tournament
200
King of England from 1154-1189, he expanded power of the royal courts.
Who is Henry II
200
Where the Viking leader, Oleg, settled at the beginning of the tenth century. Known today as Kyiv.
Where is Kiev
200
The representative government in thirteenth-century England, composed of two knights from each county, two people from each town, and all nobles and bishops throughout Europe.
What is Parliament
300
One of three classes that French society was divided into: the clergy, the nobles and the townspeople
What is an estate
300
A code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold.
What is chivalry
300
The archbishop of Canterbury and highest-ranking English cleric who claimed that only Roman Catholics Church courts could try clerics.
Who is Thomas a Becket
300
The center of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople
300
Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire in 527 who restablished the Roman Empire in the entire Mediterranean world.
Who was Justinian
400
The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
What is patriarch
400
A series of military expeditions to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims.
What were the Crusades
400
The rein of this king from 1180-1223 was a turning point for the French monarcy, expanding its income and power. Got control of French territories of Normady, Maine, Anjou, and Aquitaine.
Who is Philip II Augustus
400
A country that became part of the Roman Empire under Justinian
Where is Palestine
400
The Prince of Novgorod who defeated a German invading army in northwestern Russia in 1242.
Who was Alexander Nevsky
500
The separation between the two great branches of Christianity that occurred when the Roman Pope Leo IX and the Byzantine patriarch Michael Cerularius excommunicated each other in 1054.
What is schism
500
Unbelievers.
What is infidel
500
The best known Saxon king of Germany who brought the Church under his control and was crowned emperor of the Romans in 962.
Who is Otto I
500
A country that became a part of the Roman Empire under Justinian.
Where is Syria
500
An area along the northern frontier of the Eastern Roman Empire.