2.  Approx. 1000 – 1300
C.E.
 Towns develop
 Learning increases
 Trade increases –
Guild’s develop
 Modern nations
develop

3.  Very powerful
institution
 Competed for power
with monarchs
 Played a major role in
the Crusades

4.  1096 – 1270
 Purpose: To recapture
the holy lands
 Only one true victory
– 1st
Crusade
 One truce – 3rd
Crusade
 The rest - failures

5.  1000’s Christians
begin to repopulate
Spain
 By 1490’s Reconquista
was a policy that
drove Muslims and
Jews out of Spain
using a court called
the Inquisition

6.  Lasted from 1347-1351
 Spread through central
Asia and Europe
 Killed 30 million people
 Europeans thought it
was spread through
God’s wrath
 It was an infectious
disease which spread
through flea bites and
bodily fluids
 Helped bring an end to
Feudalism in Europe

7.  Lasted more than 100 years – did not consist of
one long battle
 Between France and England
 Began with the Battle of Hastings in 1066
 Led to the development of the countries of
France and England
 Joan of Arc led the French to victory at the
Battle of Orleans

8.  England emerges as one of the most powerful
countries in Europe
 1215 – King John forced to sign the Magna
Carta – created a bill of rights for nobles (he
was overspending and over taxing nobles)
 Parliament is created several years later to keep
the monarchy in check

9.  The Church and the Monarchy compete for
political power
 Military struggles for land
 Disease changes the population
 Europe emerges as one of the strongest
political, cultural, and military powers

10.  The Church and the Monarchy compete for
political power
 Military struggles for land
 Disease changes the population
 Europe emerges as one of the strongest
political, cultural, and military powers