Black Death (The Plague) ✔✔1347 Genoese sailors carried cargo along with disease-infested rats
and fleas with a disease later called this. Often transmitted person to person- many priests died
because cared for the sic
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Black Death (The Plague) ✔✔1347 Genoese sailors carried cargo along with disease-infested rats
and fleas with a disease later called this. Often transmitted person to person- many priests died
because cared for the sick. Started with boil, bubo that was a bump the size of a nut or apple and
very painful- gave name. Next came bleeding under skin with spots and blotches. Finally person
coughed violently and spit blood and death followed in 2 or 3 days. Not enough time, people, and
places to bury and properly care for the dead body so disease spread faster.
Hundred Years' War ✔✔Conflict between England and France from 1337 to 1453; fought over
lands England possessed in France and feudal rights versus the emerging claims of national states.
1259 Treaty of Paris said English king agreed to become vassal of French crown. When Queen
Isabella of England killed her husband King Edward II the French barons wouldn't let her son
Edward III or her rule the French monarch. Crown given to Philip VI nephew of Philip the Fair
and Philip exercised full jurisdiction which Edward III said violated Treaty of Paris. War also
became French civil war making it last longer. Both governments supported the war. England lost
all its possessions in France except Calais. Both sides death great and because of Black Death. The
crisis led to challenges to the Church.
Joan of Arc ✔✔French peasant girl and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize
French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king and helped French win key
battles in Hundreds Years' War. English captured her and France didn't fight back. English
condemned her as a heretic in 1431 and burned her at stake in Rouen marketplace.
Babylonian Captivity ✔✔(1309-1376) Philip the Faire pressured Pope Clement V to settle
permanently in Avignon, France to control the church and its policies. It weakened the papal
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