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This document paved the way for Parliament
What was the Magna Carta?
The land areas in England was divided into these
What are shires?
The Conqueror
Who is William?
The Battle of Hastings was fought between armies led by these two men
Who were King Harold Goodwin and William the Conqueror?
The name England comes from this Germanic people group
Who were the Angles?
This document was a record of land ownings
What was the Domesday (Doomsday) Book?
This was the term used to refer to the four-fold ways justice was once determined
What is Trial by Ordeal?
The Confessor
Who was Edward?
This was the month and year the winner of the Battle of Hastings was crowned King of England
What is December 1066?
The word "sheriff" comes from the arrangement of English territories
What is shire-reeve?
Although it had no written words, it did detail a famous battle
What was the Bayeux Tapestry?
This English king was in power when the Magna Carta was written
Who is King John?
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Who was Thomas a Becket?
According to many historians, this is how the losing king died
What is being hit by an arrow in the eye?
The Duke of Normandy who invaded England
Who was William the Conqueror?
This document limited the power of the king
What was the Magna Carta?
King John continually battled against this pope
Who was Pope Innocent III?
The Lion-Hearted
Who was Richard I?
The winning king sought this person's approval to go to war
Who was the pope?
These two "houses" make up the first democratic expression of English rule
What is the House of Lords and the House of Commons?
This type of document excluded a person from the church
What is excommunication?
This English king famously ruled in his brother's absence
Who was king John?
Longshanks
Who was Edward I
The winning king based his right to be king of England on the deathbed declaration of this person
Who was Edward the Confessor?
This Viking king conquered England in the early years
Who as the Danish king Canute?