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Title: The Hundred Years


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The Hundred Years War
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Europe 1200 -- 1500
  • Famine
  • Drought
  • Plague
  • Economic decline
  • Destructive war

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English claim French Lands
  • English monarchs battled to keep French lands of
    their Norman Ancestors
  • English monarchs still spoke French
  • Ancestors of William the Conqueror

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How the war got started
  • French King died without heir to throne
  • King Edward III claimed the French crown in 1337
  • Eds mother was the aunt of the dead king

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Why it lasted. . . .
  • Economic rivalry
  • Nationalism
  • Could not lose to the enemy

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Victories and Defeats
  • English dominated war for the first few decades.
  • 1337-1415
  • Morale of France was low
  • Seemed that they would be ruled by the English

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New Weapons
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Tide Turns
  • Joan of Arc
  • 13 years old began receiving messages from God
  • 17 years old went to see the uncrowned king of
    France, Charles VII

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Unifying the French
  • Told Charles that God wanted Joan to lead the
    French army to victory and make Charles King of
    France
  • Convinced the king to let her lead army

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Inspiration Maid of Orleans
  • Joan inspired the battered soldiers and united
    the French under her cause.
  • Led the French to several victories

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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
  • English captured her
  • Tried to discredit her as a messenger of God
  • Tried Joan for Witchcraft/heresy
  • guilty

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Joan of Arc burned at the stake
  • Burned at the stake by the English
  • 1920 declared the church declared her a saint
  • Patron saint of France

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Effects of War
  • Nationalism
  • Parliament became more powerful
  • Ended Englands dream of a continental empire
  • New weapons invented
  • Feudalism declines even more

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Create a Epitaph for Joan of Arc
  • Moved into groups of two
  • Create a epitaph for Joan after her death
  • What is an epitaph?
  • Final words to remember a person by.
  • Put on headstone
  • History will remember them by what is written
    here.

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