Marco! Polo!
Marco grew up with extended family after these two relatives left before he was born.
Who are Niccolo and Maffeo or his father and uncle?
This French king had a tense relationship with Pope Boniface VIII that included taxes, treason, and nearly home invasion.
Who is Philip the Fair or Philip the IV?
This city became the new home of the papacy because Rome was unsafe.
What is Avignon?
This new weapon seemed like the bow on top a gift-wrapped victory for the English at Crecy.
What is the longbow?
The Bubonic Plague was really a second wave of this 6th century outbreak.
What is the Plague of Justinian?
Marco followed in his family's footsteps but working for this great foreign leader.
Who is Kublai Khan?
This French king is the only French monarch to ever achieve sainthood.
Who is Saint Louis or Louis the IX?
This issue pitted the kings of both England and France against Pope Boniface VIII.
What is Taxation of Clergy?
Henry V ruined a chance at peace by invading and conquering this piece of Northern France, just as future English leaders would do alongside Americans.
What is Normandy?
This great empire was the first to get hit with the Plague, even before it reached Europe.
What is the Mongol Empire?
After finishing his travels, Marco decided it was finally time to settle in this Italian city, his hometown.
What is Venice?
King Charles VII received help from this unlikely source to reclaim his throne.
Who is Joan of Arc or Jeanne d'Arc?
14th century writer Francis Petrarch used this title to connect the moved papacy to an ancient exile.
What is the "Babylonian Captivity"?
This new weapon helped the French knock out more than 70 English strongholds in just a 15-month period.
What is a cannon?
This group was unfortunately blamed and persecuted after rumors spread that they poisoned wells.
What is the Jews?
The book about Marco Polo's life originally had this straightforward title, but later picked up the catchier title "The Travels."
What is "Description of the World"?
This ruler in a French-adjacent territory should've been a little more fearful about having a diplomatic meeting on a bridge.
Who is Duke John the Fearless or John the Fearless?
Neither pope showed up to the Council of Pisa leading the council to elect a third pope stationed in this Italian city.
What is Bologna?
This territory overlapping parts of France played both sides during the Hundred Years War.
What is Burgundy?
In addition to paper money, coal, and eyeglasses, Marco Polo's writings also described this new advancement in the Mongol Empire.
What is the postal service?
This French king decided one dynasty wasn't enough, fathering a line of kings and a line of Burgundian dukes.
Who is John II?
The final council of the Great Western Schism eliminated unnecessary popes but sadly also led to the death of this major theologian.
Who is Jan Hus?
The legendary hero of France's miraculous victory at Orleans referred to herself by this name when writing to the English.
What is The Maid?
What is the Dance of Death?