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Scandinavia by the twelfth century had accepted Christianity through... - correct answers
✔✔the agency of local kings who wished to better organize and govern their states
In 1077 at Canossa, King Henry IV... - correct answers ✔✔received absolution and forgiveness
after humbling himself before the pope
William of Normandy - correct answers ✔✔defeated Anglo-Saxon forces of Harold Godwinson
in the battle of Hastings and becomes King of England
battle of Hastings - correct answers ✔✔1066; William of Normandy takes over England
Domesday book - correct answers ✔✔manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of
England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror; best
described as an economic census
List three kings of Medieval England - correct answers ✔✔Henry II, King John, Edward I
Henry II (1154-1189) and the church - correct answers ✔✔tried to impose royal control of
church, but Thomas Becket (archbishop of Canterbury and thus highest ranked English cleric)
fought him
King John (1199 to 1216) - correct answers ✔✔Henry II's son; forced to assent to the Magna
Carta after barons rebelled
, Magna Carta - correct answers ✔✔an affirmation of the traditional rights of the barons, which
continued to expand later to the rest of the people
Edward I (1272 to 1307) - correct answers ✔✔defined the role of the English parliament
Parliament - correct answers ✔✔one of great political developments; originally arose from
King's need to collect new taxes
Capetian Dynasty - correct answers ✔✔Hugh Capet founded it; was strengthened by the
emergence of a council for advice, a chamber of accounts for finances, the Parlement and the
Estates-General
King Phillip II Augustus (1180 to 1223) - correct answers ✔✔Was a French monarch who waged
war against England (King John) and won back some places; also established French
Bureaucracy
Louis IX (1226-1270) - correct answers ✔✔"Saint Louis", French; participated in the Crusades
Phillip IV the Fait (1285 to 1314) - correct answers ✔✔strengthened French monarchy;
established Estates-General which was the first French parliament
The Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) - correct answers ✔✔series of conflicts fought between
England and France over succession to the French throne; lasted 116 years; many major battles
like battle of Crecy (1346) and Battle of Agincourt (1415) (major English victory)
Boniface VIII (1294-1303) - correct answers ✔✔pope who had major conflict with King Philip IV
of France because he wanted to tax churchmen without Church's permission