Middle Ages ( all events taken from "World History Patterns of Interaction" Textbook)
By turtletime29
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William the Conqueror leads Normandy to victory over England. Marries, Eleanor of Aquitane, uniting Normandy and England
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King John who successed King Richard, reluctantly signed the Magna Carta that guarenteed basic political rights to the people such as no taxation without representation, trial by jury, and protection by law
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A parliament was ventually signed and established in England
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King Phillip IV went against Pope Boniface and created own pope, splitting the church and country
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The French King Charles IV dies with no male heir. Charles's son in law and nephew fight to claim the throne, starting the Hundred Year War
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The plague came in 3 forms
- pneumonic: attacked the lungs
- septicemic: attacked the bloodstream
- bubonic: caused buboes on the body -
ended up killing 1/3 of the population, few sparatic cases of the plague popped up every once in a while but nothing large
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New Holy Roman Emperor and his councel forcing both popes to resign and he assigned a new single pope
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Joan of Arc convinced King Charles VII to let her lead the army against the English in a battle. She achieved victory as a woman leading an army
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Joan of Arc is eventually captured by English and accused of herecy and burned at the stake. She was later sainted by the catholic church in 1922