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Feudal System | political system based around granting land in return for military assistance and other services |
Manor System | system based around self-sufficient farming estates where the lords and peasants lived off the land together |
Holy Land | Jerusalem and parts of the surrounding area where Jesus lived and taught |
Jerusalem | a city in the Holy Land regarded as sacred to Christians, Jews, and Muslims |
Crusaders | people who carried the Christian cross into battle against the non-Christian enemy |
How crusades affected trade | trade increased because Crusaders brought back exotic goods that Europeans wanted |
How crusades affected the use of money | increased because it made trade easier |
How crusades affected new ideas | new developments in technology such as improved shipbuilding and navigation |
Who was the pope who called for the Crusades? | Pope Urban II |
Which empire was threatened by the Seljurk Truks at the start of the Crusades | Byzantine Empire (threatened by who?) |
Why did merchants want the Crusades? | To control trade routes to the east |
Who fought the first "unofficial" crusades? | an army of commoners (fought in which crusade) |
What was established at the end of the First Crusade | 4 Crusader states established by the Christians (was the result of which Crusade) |
Who were the leaders of the Third Crusade? | Saladin and Richard I of England (leaders in which Crusade) |
Magna Carta | written agreement between King John and the nobles that limited the power of the king and strengthened rights of nobles |
Model Parliament | a governing body created by Edward I that included commoners, low ranking clergy, high ranking church officials, and nobles |
100 Years' War | was a series of battle between France in England from 1337 - 1453 |
How did Magna Carta contribute to the decline of Feudalism? | it established rights and liberties that kings couldn’t take away and enforced that kings should rule with the advice of the people (which event led to decline of feudalism) |
How did Model Parliament contribute to the decline of feudalism? | contributed to the decline of feudalism by giving a voice in the government to the common people(which event led to decline of feudalism) |
How did the Bubonic Plague contribute to the decline of feudalism? | contributed to the decline of feudalism because workers who were in high demand could demand more rights and peasants and serfs abandoned manors and moved to cities(which event led to decline of feudalism) |
How did the Hundred Years' War contribute to the decline of feudalism? | contributed to the decline of feudalism because kings no longer needed nobles to supply knights (raised taxes instead), a new feeling of nationalism because of the war led to people feeling loyal to their king instead of their lord, and commoners who survived were needed to work so they gained power(which event led to decline of feudalism) |