A seventy year exile of the Israelites in Babylon.
What was the Babylon captivity?
Uniform laws in England determined by justices.
What is the common law?
War between England and France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; won by the French.
What is the Hundreds Year war?
The reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula which was held by the Muslims.
What is the Reconquista?
The German equivalent of the English parliament and French Estates-general.
What is the Diet?
The period form the late fourteenth century to the early fifteenth century during which the Roman Catholic church had two to three men claiming to be the Pope.
What is the Great Schism?
A guarantee of feudal rights; one of the most important documents in English history because it showed that the king was under the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
English king who felt that he was the rightful heir to the French throne because his mom was the sister of the French kings. French nobles refused to give him the crown and gave it to Philip Vl instead.
Who is Edward lll?
Heir to throne of Argon, married Isabella, heir to the throne of Castile. Together they authorized the Spanish inquisition, a systematic persecution of Muslims and Jews.
Who was Ferdinand?
German noble family who built a strong base of power in Austria among the southern German states.
Who were the Habsburgs?
Fifteenth-century Roman Catholic Church council that ended the Great Schism.
What is the Council of Constance?
One of England's most gifted medieval kings.Attempted to extend English rule over all of Britain. Made his son prince of Wales. Tried to subdue Scotland but was met with fierce resistance.
Who was Edward l?
Believing heavenly voices felt that she was called to drive the English out of France, roused the weak French king into action, rallied the dispirited French troops, and accompanied the French army into battle. Was burned at the stake in 1431 by English forces.
Who is Joan of arc?
Ferdinands wife.
Who is Isabella?
Greatly enlarged the Habsburgs possessions by marriage. Marriage alliance between son and daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.
Who was emperor Maximilian l?
An independent group of people having common traditions and ruled by a king.
What is a nation-state?
The English representative body consisting of two houses, the House of Commons and the House of Lords; had the "power of the purse".
What is parliament?
Series of conflicts between the houses of York and Lancaster over the English throne.
What are the Wars of the Roses?
Ferdinand and wife completed reconquest by driving out Moors in Granada, Same year Columbus landed in New World.
What happened in 1492?
"the Fair" Strengthened organization and authority of central government. Royal government increased in size and taxed the French people as no king before him had.
Who is Philip lV?
An accusation.
What is and indictment?
Philip ll's grandson. Been called ideal medieval king.Combined sincere piety and just rule to build respect and loyalty for the French throne.Concerned about welfare of his subjects. Made peace and justice primary goals of his reign.Established permanent royal court at Paris.
Who was King Louis lX?
Founded powerful Tudor dynasty.
Who was Henry Vll?
Established the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire.
What did the Golden Bull do?