People
Eric the Red
Who described Greenland as warm, hospitable, and similar to Iceland?
Areas becoming the nations of France, Italy, and Germany
What were West Francia, Middle Francia, and East Francia?
Its purpose was to place limits on King John's power.
What was the purpose of the Magna Carta?
1337 to 1453
When was the Hundred Years' War?
An artistic depiction of the Norman Conquest
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
Pope Leo IX
Who excommunicated Patriarch Michael in 1054?
The homeland of the Rus people
What was Scandinavia?
An old court case serving as a guide for deciding a new court case
What is a legal precedent?
The Sack of Contantinople
What happened in 1204, at the end of the 4th Crusade?
The East-West Schism formed these two churches
What were the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic church?
King Charles the Simple
Who united his family with Rollo's by giving Rolle his daughter Gisela's hand in marriage?
Jerusalem was the holy city for these three religions
What were Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
Right of a first-born child to inherit his or her father's titles, territories, and wealth
What was primogeniture?
The Wars of the Roses
What English civil wars took place from 1455 to 1487?
The 4 reasons Vikings started raiding coastal Europe
For what were the following 4 reasons?
1. They were warlike people crazing conquest.
2. They wanted to block Charlemagne from defeating and Christianizing them.
3. Overpopulation made it difficult to feed everyone.
4. Climate change made it difficult to grow food
This leader had three major advantages over the English army at the Battle of Hastings.
Who was William the Conqueror?
The monastery raided by the Vikings to begin the Viking Age
What was Lindisfarne?
Cognatic primogeniture
What was it called when an heir could inherit through either a male or female ancestor?
The Viking Age
What was 793 to 1066 AD called?
A weapon that could pierce through armor and included a spear-pointed, iron arrowhead called a bodkin
What was the English longbow?
Charlemagne's son
Who was Louis the Pious?
King Charles the Simple promised to make Rollo the duke of the territory around this city
What was Rouen?
The belief that an heir could inherit through only a male ancestor
What was agnatic primogeniture?
1054
When was Patriarch Michael I excommunicated?
The two rival houses battling for control of England during the Wars of the Roses
What were the House of Lancaster and the House of York?