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section five- 100 years war
- The Black death was a plague that killed almost 1/3 of the population.
- The time of the Black Death were very unhealthy and unclean times.
- waste was dumped into gutter and the rats ate the waste so the rats picked up the disease and passed it to people
- Some entire villages and towns were wiped out by this plague
- During the Black Plague many peasants staged uprisings because there were so few of them to do the work they could demand more money
- vernacular languages-languages spoken everyday that varied from place to place
- Troubadours-traveling singeres whoh wrote poems about love and chivalry
- Dante Alighieri- was a medieviel writer, wrote THE DIVINE COMEDY
- Geoffrey Chaucer- medevil writer that wrote THE CANTERBURY TALES, a group of stories from the view of the pilgrims.
- scholastcism-attempt to bring together faith and reason
- Peter Abeland-a philosopher of scholasticism taught in Paris in 1100.
- Thomas Aquinas-a monk of the Dominican order, the greatest medievil philosopher
- Gothic-a word for a style unliked, taken from the barbarian Goths
- In 1328 the last male member of Frances Capetian dynasty died.
- Edward III clained the French throne.
- In 1337 Edward brought an army to Flanders hoping to gain control of this rich trading area
- The Hundred Year War lasted for 116 years
- by 1453 France controlled all of Englands French lands except Calais
- Many new weapons were introduced during this war such as the long bow,gun powder, and cannons.
- Castle walls no longer protected the kings from danger because of all the new weapons
- Besides lost of land the Hundred Year War, parliment gained more power over the king
- by the late 1300's the kibng needed Parliments consent on all special taxes
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