Title: US Stupendous History
Author: Ephron
Last saved by: Technology Coordinator

War & Civilization		          Feudalism, Crusades & a Girl			Mr. Thorsen

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
-1^st 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
-3^rd Crusade
	-Philip Augustus of France
	-Richard the Lionheart of England
	-Frederick Barbarossa of HRE
-reasons for continued defeat

-4^th 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
-2^nd  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