Vocabulary
Relating to the Middle Ages, roughly from the 5th to the 15th century, when castles, knights, and feudal systems were common.
Medieval
Name of the lead Spanish Conquistador.
Hernan Cortes
One of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Arrived in Europe in 1347-8 and spread rapidly. Killed millions.
The Black Death (The Black Plague)
In 1066, it is the place where the Normans and English fought.
Hastings
9/10 Europeans were this during the medieval times.
Peasants or Commoners
A society with cities, organized government, culture, and technology.
civilization
Name of the Aztec ruler at the time of the Spanish Conquest.
Moctezuma II
The document nobles forced an angry King John of England to sign in 1215.
The Magna Carta
Captured by the Christians in 1099.
Jerusalem
Had total power/control during in Medieval European societies.
The Monarch (king or queen)
The way a group or country is ruled or managed, including laws, leaders, and systems of control.
governance
Fought bravely against the English during the Hundred Years War. Considered a heroine by the French.
Joan of Arc
In 1295, this was the first time ordinary people were formally represented in English government.
The Model Parliament
Angry nobles rebelled and forced King John of England to meet here, where they made him sign a document called the Magna Carta.
Runnymede
What the Spanish Conquistadors were looking for.
The time before modern history, when technology and science were less advanced.
pre-modern
His death led to a struggle for the throne of England (1066).
England’s King Edward the Confessor
A long conflict between England and France that began in 1337. The war started when the English king, Edward III, claimed the French throne after the French king died without a direct heir.
Hundred Years War
Where the Peasants' Revolt took place in 1381.
England
Unfair treatment or a situation where people are not treated equally or lawfully.
injustice
Launched the First Crusade in 1095. He called on all Christians to retake Jerusalem from Muslim control.
Pope Urban II
In 1519, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés sailed to Mexico with a small army seeking gold, glory, and land for Spain. There he encountered the powerful Aztec Empire ruled by Emperor Moctezuma II.
The Spanish Conquest
The lake where Tenochtitlan was located.
Lake Texcoco
System that forced peasants into hard labor on the lands of the lords.
feudalism (feudal system)