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100

The Italian merchant/explorer who went to China 

Marco Polo

100

The French peasant girl who led the French army in the Hundred Years' War

Joan of Arc

100

Tribe that took over Jerusalem and persecuted Christian pilgrims, leading (in part) to the Crusades

Seljuk Turks

100

Capitol city of the Eastern Roman Empire and largest city in Christendom

Constantinople

100

The war between France and England in the late Middle Ages over land in France

Hundred Years War

200

King of England, son of Eleanor of Aquitaine, led the 3rd Crusade

Richard the Lionheart

200

Hero of the Scottish wars for independence in the late Middle Ages

William Wallace

200

What happened during the 4th Crusade?

Crusaders sacked Constantinople and weakened the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire

200

Tribe that invaded Anatolia and conquered Constantinople

Ottoman Turks

200

Name ONE reason why the English longbow was superior to traditional bows

  1. It could be used to penetrate armor

  2. It had a much longer range than traditional archery

  3. It was much more accurate than traditional archery

  4. It could be used three times as fast
300

One of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages, Queen of France then later England, mother of two Kings of England

Eleanor of Aquitaine

300

Founder of Scholasticism

St Thomas Aquinas

300

Name TWO reasons why the Fourth Crusade was seen as a tragedy for Christendom

  1. Christians were fighting each other, rather than Muslims

  2. Constantinople was sacked by the Latins

  3. The Byzantine Empire was greatly weakened

300

Young boys taken from the Christian population who were forced to convert to Islam and be soldiers for the Sultan against their own people as part of the Devshirme system

Janissaries

300

The English document signed in 1215 granting political and legal rights and setting the king under the law

Magna Carta

400

Muslim general in the Crusades who took Jerusalem from the Crusaders

Saladin

400

Ottoman Turkish ruler who conquered Constantinople

Mehmed the Conqueror

400

Name TWO factors in causing the Crusades

  1. Desire for access to trading routes east

  2. Persecution of Christian pilgrims in Muslim lands

  3. Primogeniture

  4. Unemployment

  5. Byzantine losses in Anatolia

400

The last Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor

Constantine XI

400

Name TWO causes of the Hundred Years War

  1. Anger over French support of the Scottish

  2. Disputes over English land holdings in France

  3. Rivalry over the wool trade in Flanders

500

English King who took over Scotland and fought against William Wallace

Edward I

500

English king who signed the Magna Carta

King John

500

Name THREE results of the Crusades

  1. Sugar was introduced to western Europeans

  2. The re-integration of Western Europe into the larger economy of the eastern hemisphere

  3. Trade was increased in Western Europe

  4. Cultural exchanges (diffusion)

  5. Fall of Constantinople

500

Name THREE facts about Greek Fire

  1. It could not be put out with water

  2. It was a combustible liquid 

  3. It was used by the Byzantines/Eastern Romans

  4. It was an advantage of the Byzantines/Eastern Romans

  5. The formula was a secret, never dsiscovered to this day
500

Name THREE results of the Hundred Years War

  1. Increase in patriotism/nationalism

  2. Kings gained more power (raise standing armies)

  3. Nobles lost power (cannot raise standing armies)

  4. Beginning of the end for feudalism (loyalty to kings)

  5. End of Knights as military force (standing armies rather than feudal obligations)

  6. Increase in weapons technology (longbow, cannon)