Feudalism
-chaos and invasion
-Western and Eastern (Byzantine)
-Huns & stirrup
-Charlemagne
-Magyars, Muslims and Vikings
-Norwegians, Swedes, Danes
-Woten (Odin), Thor, Frey
-what is Feudalism
-reason for Feudalism
-feudal lords emerge
-lord, vassal, fief, paying homage
-obligations of vassals and lords
-code of chivalry
-weakness of feudalism
-law of Primogeniture and reason for it
-manorial contract
-centralized vs. decentralized power
-what is the struggle between the nobility
and the monarchs?
-medieval warfare
-readings
Crusades
-cause
-Seljuk Turks take what region?
-Byzantine Emperor Alexis appeals to whom?
-Pope Urban II
-reunite Catholic & Orthodox churches
-what did pope offer to go?
-why did knights desire to go?
-Constantinople & Jerusalem
-1st Crusade 1096-1099
-Turkish style of warfare
-Crusader style of warfare
-crusader treatment of enemies & captives
-the spear of destiny at Antioch
-fall of Jerusalem
-reasons for crusader success & Turkish defeat
-Crusader States
-recipe for disaster
-Saladin and jihad
-name two reasons why Muslims were able
to retake the Holy Land
-fall of Jerusalem
-3rd Crusade
-Philip Augustus of France
-Richard the Lionheart of England
-Frederick Barbarossa of HRE
-reasons for continued defeat
-4th Crusade 1202-1204
-role of Venice “Venice, oh Venice”
-why attack Constantinople?
-the effect of this for Christianity
-Results of the crusades
100Yrs War 1337-1453
-Causes
-last Capetian king dies
-Flanders
-what was important about Flanders?
-1st phase 1337-1420, who wins?
-French strengths & weaknesses
-English strengths & weaknesses
-Battle of Crecy and Agincourt
-Charles VI, dauphin Charles, Henry V
-Treaty of Troyes
-2nd phase 1421-1453
-Jeanne D’Arc (Joan of Arc)
-meeting the dauphin
-Battle of Orleans
-march to Rheims
-betrayal and trial at Rouen
-inquisition
-Charles VII and the Burgundians
-results of the war