This king sent his own knights to kill is former best friend and political enemy, the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
Who is Henry II?
100
The Muslims and Christians fought for centuries over this land.
What is the "holy land"? (Jerusalem + more)
100
The Hundred Years War took place between England and this country on the continent.
What is France?
100
This book was England's first census system.
What is the Domesday book?
100
This first Norman king of England made all vassals pledge their first allegiance to him and created the Domesday Book.
Who is William I (William the Conqueror)?
200
This Pope is known as the most powerful pope of the Middle Ages. He claimed to have power to remove kings from their positions.
Who is Innocent III?
200
This pope called the first Crusade to defend the empire from invading Turks.
Who is Urban II? (Did he have other motives?)
200
This English king launched the first invasion that would start the 100 Years War.
Who is Edward III?
200
This 1215 document was the first law to limit the power of the king.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
This king was forced to sign the Magna Carta.
Who is King John?
300
This refers to the 70 period in which three people in Europe declared themselves pope and all excommunicated each other and their followers.
What is the Avignon Papacy?
300
This Spanish queen is credited for launching the Inquisition.
Who is Isabella of Castille?
300
The English had immense success on the battlefield with the invention of this new weapon.
What is the longbow?
300
During the high middle ages, power shifted from this group of people to the kings as their land was taken and allegiance changed.
Who are the nobles (nobility)?
300
This English king is credited for creating common law.
Who is Henry II?
400
This legal document settled the long dispute between Henry IV and Gregory VII over lay investiture.
What is the Concordat of Worms?
400
Religious fervor spread to the Iberian Peninsula causing this campaign to re-take the peninsula from Muslims.
What is the Reconquista?
400
The execution of this female martyr fueled the French for later victories in the 100 years war.
Who is Joan of Arc?
400
In consolidating royal power, French kings established this advisory body made up of clergy, noblemen, and townspeople to help advise the king. It never gained significant power to limit the king.
What is the Estates General?
400
This French king is credited for consolidating French land holdings for the crown.
Who is Philip II?
500
The Church declared this man a heretic for proposing unwelcome reforms. However, he was already dead. So they dug him and burnt his bones at the stake.
Who is John Wycliff?
500
This Muslim leader retook Jerusalem from Christian crusaders in 1187.
Who is Saladin?
500
The Hundred Years War effectively established France as a clearly defined and independent one of these political units.
What is a nation-state?
500
One of the ways that England limited the power of the king was by establishing this principle that requires that there must be a legal reason to arrest somebody.
What is habeas corpus?
500
This Holy Roman Emperor is remembered for begging at the door of Pope Gregory VII...and then chasing him out of Rome.