Chap 10, lesson 3- The Growth of European Kingdoms

What prince defeated a German invading army in NW russia, and was rewarded with tile Grand Prince, and all his descendants vacate princes of Moscow, and eventually leaders of Russia?

Alexander Nevsky, prince of Novgorod

Who claimed that only Roman Catholic Church courts could try clerics

Archbishop if Canterbury, Thomas à Becket

A uniform system of law that developed in England based on court decisions and on customs and usage rather than in written law codes; replaced law codes that varied from place to place

Common law

Who developed the Cyrillic alphabet so that the Christian alphabet could be taught to the Slavic people?

Cyril

Eastern Slavic people were converted to Orthodox Christianity by two Byzantine missionary brothers, ___________________ and _________________________.

Cyril and Methodius

During the reign of _______________________, parliament emerged.

Edward I

What title did the pope give Otto I?

Emperor of the Romans

______________________ had recognized that the relationship between king and Vassals was based on mutual rights and obligations.

Feudal Custom

What was the Domesday Book?

First census taken in Europe since Roman times and included people, Manors, and farm animals

What two German king's tried to make a new kingdom by conquering Italy, and later was opposed by the pope?

Frederick I and Frederick II

The power of the English monarchy was enlarged during the reign of ________________.

Henry II

Knights and townspeople formed what house of parliament?

House of Commons

West Frankish nobles made _______________ their king, establishing ________________________ dynasty of French king's.

Hugh Capet; Capetian

Which French King was made a saint, and was known for trying to bring Justice to his people by hearing their complaints in person?

Louis IX

The "Great charter" of rights, which King John was forced to sign by the English nobles at Runnymede in 1215

Magna Carta

Who conquered Russia in the thirteenth century?

Mongols

What Viking leader settled in Kiev at the beginning of the tenth centruy and created the Rus state known as the Principality of Kiev?

Oleg

Who was a patron of the German culture and brought the Church under his contol?

Otto I

In the thirteenth century England, the representative govt that emerged; it was composed of two Knights from every country, two people from every town, and all the nobles and bishops throughout England

Parliament

Who fought wars against the English to take control of the French territories of Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Aquitaine?

Philip II Augustus

Who was called Philip the Fair, and made the monarchy stronger by expanding the royal bureaucracy?

Philip IV

What 3 things did the Parliament's of Edward I grant?

Taxes, discussed politics, and passed laws

What three groups of people accepted Western Christianity and became part of the Roman Catholic Church and it's Latin culture?

The Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians

What were the tree estates of parliament, and what class of people were they composed of?

The clergy (first estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the townspeople and peasants (third estate)

What made the German monarchy weak?

The struggle between popes and emperors, which led to Germany being left in the hands of the Nobles who ignored the emperor and created their own independent kingdoms.

What Rus ruler married the Byzantine emperor's sister and accepted Eastern Orthodox Christianity fornhimsoef and his people?

Vladimir

Who defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings?

William of Normandy

A social or political class

estate

Who formed the House of Lords?

nobles and bishops (church Lord's)