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World History Review-Beam
The Rise of Nation-States
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History
9th Grade
01/11/2007

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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Richest woman in Twelfth Century Europe; married to the kings of both England and France
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Domesday Book
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Document ordered by William the Conqueror assessing English property for tax purposes
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Henry II
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Began English Common Law
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Spain
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United by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella
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John Huss (Jan Hus)
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Bohemian monk burned at the stake in 1415 for heresy
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Queen Margrete was elected Queen of all three
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How were Norway, Sweden, and Denmark united?
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smothered (murdered)
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What happened to "The Princes in the Tower"?
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Burned at the stake
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What happened to Joan of Arc?
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Red Rose
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Symbol of the House of Lancaster
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Magna Carta
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Document signed at Runnymede in 1215 by King John giving Englishmen certain freedoms and providing for a Great Council (later called Parliament) to make laws
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King John
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English king who signed the Magna Carta
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Exhumed (dug up) and burned for heresy
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What happened to John Wycliffe 31 years after his death?
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White rose
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Symbol of the House of York
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Murdered (probably at the behest of Henry II) while he prayed at Canterbury Cathedral

Proclaimed a saint
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What happened to Thomas a Beckett?
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Richard III
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Became king after the murder of the Princes in the Tower (Edward V and Richard, Duke of York) and was later killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field
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There were two Popes; one in Rome, the other in Avignon
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What happened during the Great Scism?
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Hundred Years War
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War between England and France over English land holdings in France
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Lollards
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Followers of John Wycliffe
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Joan of Arc
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Peasant girl who led French forces during the Hundred Years War
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Bubonic Plague
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Killed 1/3 of Europe's population beginning in 1348
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Presented his infant son as Prince of Wales
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What Edward I did when the conquered Welsh demanded to be ruled by a native-born Welshman
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Henry stood barefoot in the snow, wearing the rough clothes of a penitent, for three days, begging forgiveness
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What happened after Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy?
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War of the Roses
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Dispute between England's Houses of York and Lancaster for the throne
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Grenada
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Last Muslim province in Spain
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William I (The Conqueror)
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Duke of Normandy who conquered England in 1088
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John of Gaunt
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Son of Edward III who engineered the deposition of Richard II, obtaining the trone for his son, Henry of Bolingbroke
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John Wycliffe
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Translated the Bible into English
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Elizabeth Woodville
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Edward IV's wife
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Elizabeth Woodville
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Edward IV's wife
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Elizabeth Woodville
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Edward IV's wife
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Elizabeth Woodville
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Edward IV's wife
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York and Lancaster
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Families who fought the War of the Roses
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Famous English author who was John of Gaunt's brother-in-law
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usurper
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Person who seizes a throne illegally
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Absolute monarchy
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Type of government adopted by France after 1469
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