Strongest Germanic group
Franks
Political order where nobles governed and protected people in return for services
Feudalism
Crusades were a holy war fought between
Language of the educated
Latin
These two countries fought one another during the Hundred Years War
England and France
This agreement ended the Investiture Controversy
Concordat of Worms
Member of the peasant class tied to the land and subject to the will of the landowner
serf
King John was forced to sign this document at Runnymede in 1215
Magna Carta
Ideas that went against the church
heresy
This 17 year old French girl became the rallying point for French soldiers and was burned at the stake by the British
Joan
This man stopped the Muslim advance into Europe
Charles the Hammer
Which group followed a code of chivalry?
knights
This man set up a central royal court with lawyers and judges
King Henry II
Beginning in 1150, Churches in Europe began being built in what architectural style
Gothic
These two royal Spaniards married, combining their kingdoms, and set up the Spanish Inquisition
Ferdinand and Isabella
Which countries make up Scandinavia- the homeland of the Vikings
Denmark, Sweden, Norway
A low-ranking noble who served a lord
vassal
This man defeated Harold Godwinson and took control of the English throne
William the Conqueror
Scholasticism's greatest thinker
Thomas Aquinas
What were Jews blamed with during the Black Death
poisoning the wells of Europe
This man begged to be reinstated in the Church after being excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII
King Henry IV
A group of merchants or craftspeople
guilds
Name of France's parliament
Estates-General
Scholasticism was a way of thinking that combined faith and
reason
What year did the Black Death arrive in Europe
1347