Feudal Power & Politics
Battlefield Strategy
Plague
Joan of Arc
Jeanne d'Arc
200

This law prevented Edward III from claiming the French throne through his mother.

Salic
200

At the Battle of Crécy, the English placed their army in this advantageous position on the battlefield.

High Ground

200

This type of plague infected the lungs and could spread directly through the air between people.

Pneumonic

200

This French city’s siege was lifted by Joan of Arc in 1429.

Orleans

200

Joan of Arc came from this small village in northeastern France.

Domremy

400

After the death of Charles IV in 1328, the French nobility chose this man as king instead of Edward III.

Philip VI

400

These mercenary soldiers fought for the French at Crécy but were ineffective partly because their weapons were too slow to load.

Genoese crossbowmen?

400

Because so many workers died, peasants were able to demand this economic change.

$$$ Higher Wages $$$

400

Joan was this age when claimed to receive visions from saints and angels instructing her to help France.

17

400

Joan of Arc was executed for two crimes. This one was extremely petty.

What is wearing men's clothes.

600

Due to a strange situation involving a place called Gascoy, thing English king had to do this.

Bow to the king of France

600

This English weapon could fire more rapidly and at longer range than the crossbow.

Longbow

600

Modern historians believe that the plague came from this general part of the world

Central Asia

600

This French king was crowned at Reims after Joan helped secure his path to the throne.

Charles VII

600

This French city was the traditional location where French kings were crowned.

Reims

800

A rising medieval social class including merchants and skilled craftsmen living in town weakened feudal power. They got their name from the german word [THIS], originally meaning [THIS[

Burg, walled cities

800

This major lesson of Crécy showed that disciplined infantry could defeat this traditional elite warrior class.

Knights

800

Fear and uncertainty during the plague often led to this social phenomenon of blaming minority groups.

Scapegoating

800

Joan was captured by this French faction allied with England.

Burgundians

800

Joan traveled to this town to find the Prince

Chinon.

1000

The Hundred Years’ War began after the death of this French king without a male heir in 1328.

Charles IV

1000

This beloved English leader led the army at Agincourt

Henry V

1000

The three steps of scapegoating. (does NOT need to be answered as a question)

There is a problem (real or perceived). The majority group falsely blames an 'other' or 'outsider' minority group (or individual). The minority group is punished, often violently.

1000

Joan was executed in 1431 after being convicted of this religious crime by a church court.

Heresy

1000

The crown prince of France was also known as this

The Dauphin