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The Plague, Hundred Years War and the Church
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The Black or Bubonic Plague
  • Spread by flees on rats carried over by Italian
    Merchants from Caffa
  • Followed trade routes (France, Low Country,
    Germany, England, northern Europe, Eastern
    Europe, Russia in 3 years)
  • Up to 50 of the population died
  • Social and Economic Consequences
  • Church, trade declines, end of serfdom and
    religious persecution

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Divisions in the Church
  • Lack of faith due to the Black Death
  • Papacy in France and Rome as well as the Great
    Schism
  • John Wycliffe Bible in the vernacular (English)
  • John Hus burned a heretic
  • Changes in the Churchbecause their ideas sparked
    the public!

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The Hundred Years War
  • 1337 1453 CE
  • A series of English and French conflicts that
    physically devastate France and economically
    drain England

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Background for War
  • 1259 Treaty of Paris
  • Aquitaines lord is the English King how can
    the English King be a vassal to the French King
    at the same time? Especially when England is
    more powerful!

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War Begins
  • French King, Philip VI, tries to take control of
    Aquitaine from Englandand the English fight
    back

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Hundred Years War
  • WHY WAR?
  • English hope to hold onto lands held by their
    Norman ancestors
  • French hope to regain their lands on the European
    continent (esp. the KING!)

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Early Years of War
  • English won important early victories in Northern
    France (Crecy and Agincourt)
  • English used the longbow, which helped them
    achieve victory
  • French moral is very low

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Joan of Arc
  • 17 year old peasant woman
  • Hears spiritual voices of Saints
  • King Charles VII of France gives her command of
    the relief force at Orleans, France
  • Joan inspires troops and is somewhat militarily
    successful

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Joan of Arc
  • Joan is captured by the English
  • The English try her and burn her at the stake
    (age 19)
  • Joan becomes a French martyr
  • and a Catholic saint
  • The tides turn

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The Hundred Years War Ends
  • France takes the offensive against England
    (Battle of Orleans turning point of the war)
  • France wins a series of battles with the cannon
    (technology destroys castles!)
  • England retreats from the European continent
    for good
  • Results of the warnew monarchies England
    weaker / France absolute!

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Reconquista of Spain
  • Muslim Spain divided into Muslim and Christian
    Kingdoms
  • Marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of
    Aragon
  • Unification of Spain in 1492
  • Most Catholic Nation State with strong
    Inquisition Court

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