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What famous document was a written legal agreement that limited the king's power and strengthened the rights of nobles?
What is the Magna Carta or Great Charter?
During the decline of Feudalism, what French King reclaimed fiefs that were part of his realm?
Who is King Philip VI?
In 1164 C.E., King Henry issued what document that he said spelled out the king's traditional rights and strengthen royal authority?
What are the Constitutions of Clarendon?
After the bubonic plague, what countries experienced a number of peasant rebellions after nobles tried to return things to how they had been?
What are France, Italy, England (UK or Britain), Germany, and Spain?
The Byzantine culture was largely shaped by the heritage from what country?
What is Greece?
What legal changes was King Henry attempting to make with regards to the Church and the publishing of the Constitution of Clarendon?
What is the right to try clergy accused of serious crimes in royal courts, rather than in Church courts?
What is the title of the religious leader, selected by a Byzantine Emperor, as the leader who ranked just below him in matters of religion, and is considered the “first among equals”?
What is a patriarch?
What happened in 532 C.E. during a sporting event in Constantinople's Hippodrome and what was the sporting event?
What are riots and chariot races?
Prior to a pandemic spreading in Europe, which country had its population reduced by nearly half between 1200 and 1393 as a result of the plague and famine?
During the period of the decline of Feudalism (1200s to 1400s), some historians estimate that 24 million Europeans died of the plague. About what fraction of the population died?
What is about a third of the population?
What was the Justinian Code and what was improved?
What is a systematic body of law and he revised outdated and confusing laws from the Roman Empire; made improvements, such as extending women's property rights?
What is the name of a French 17-year-old peasant girl that claimed that she heard the voices of saints urging her to save France, and later led a French army to victory in the Battle of Orléans?
Who is Joan of Arc?
Prejudice against Jews had led which government to order all Jews to leave the country in 1290?
What is the English (or British) government?
The Byzantine Empire lasted from about 500 C.E. to 1453 C.E., and were eventually conquered by what group?
What is the Ottoman Empire?
In the Chapter 5 reading, it was said that during the Middle Ages, it was not unusual for people to go for many months without doing what TWO hygienic steps?
What are a change of clothing and a bath?
What is the act, directed by Emperor Leo III, that occurred between 730 to 843 C.E. when many religious artwork were destroyed to prevent wrongly worshiping idols and icons as if they were divine?
What is iconoclasm?
What claim did the English Lords have over the French that led to the Hundred Years' War?
What are they claimed land or fiefs?
Between 1337 and 1453, what two countries fought a series of battles for control over lands in France and what was the conflict called?
What are England and France, and known as the Hundred Years' War?
What are the names of the Byzantine cathedral and the sports stadium?
What is the Hagia Sophia (a.k.a. Holy Wisdom) and the Hippodrome?
What are three signs or symptoms of the bubonic plague, a.k.a. black death?
What are fever, vomiting, fierce coughing and sneezing fits, and egg-sized swellings or bumps, called buboes?
King Henry II, ruled England from 1154 to 1189. During that time what legal reforms did he make, regarding the way a person is accused of a serious crime, took power away from feudal lords?
What is a jury must formally accuse a person of a serious crime; cases were tried before a royal judge and a court trial. (people could no longer simply be jailed or executed for no legal reason)
In 1295, Edward I, King John's grandson, took a major step toward including more people in government. What did King Edward I call that new governing body that included high and low-level clergy, nobles, and commoners?
What is a Model Parliament?
In what year did angry nobles force a meeting with King John and insisted that he put his royal seal on a document, and what was the document called?
What is 1215 and the Magna Carter (or Great Charter)?
Name three types of modern systems that made life in Constantinople more comfortable than in Western Europe?
What are sewer systems, and social services like hospitals, homes for the elderly, and orphanages?
What three causes led to the decline of feudalism?
What are political changes, a terrible disease (bubonic plague), and a long series of wars?