LOS AMIGOS HIGH SCHOOL

AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

 

Unit X:  THE MIDDLE AGES (476-1453)

 

The Medieval Struggle for Power Between Church and State

Constantinople,  Byzantium,  Justinian,  Code of Justinian,  Hagia Sophia

 

The Carolingian Heritage

Charlemagne,  Holy Roman Empire,  Treaty of Verdun

 

A New Age of Barbarian Invasions

       Slavs,   Cyrillic Alphabet,   Magyars,   Mongols,   Vikings,   Leif Ericsson

 

The Norman Conquest of England

       The Norman Conquest - interactive website

         The Bayeux Tapestry - scene by scene  *

 

Edward the Confessor,   Harold Godwinson,   Harold Hardrada, 

Battle of Stamford Bridge,   William the Conqueror,   Battle of Hastings

 

Magna Carta and the Limited Monarchy

       King John of England,   Magna Carta,   Edward I of England,

Model Parliament

 

Papal Primacy and the Division of Christendom

       Papal Primacy,   East-West Schism,   Roman Catholic Church,

         Eastern Orthodox Church,   iconoclasm

 

The Crusades

       Seljuk Turks,   Holy Land,   Emperor Alexios I,   Pope Urban II,

         Council of Clermont,   Crusades,   Saracens

 

Greco-Roman vs Gothic Design

 

The Great Schism and the Conciliar Movement

       Clericis Laicos,   Unam Sanctam,   College of Cardinals,   Avignon Papacy,  

Charles V,   Antipope,   Great Papal Schism,   Council of Constance,   Conciliar Movement,  

Pope Martin V

 

                   

Pope Boniface VIII                   Philip IV, "the Fair"

 

The Hundred Years' War

       Capet,   Edward III,   Philip VI,   Flanders,   Hundred Years' War,   Henry VI,

Battle of Orleans,   Charles VII,   Plantagenet,   Wars of the Roses,   Battle of Bosworth Field,  

Tudor

 

                                            

         Joan of Arc                             Richard III of England              Henry VII Tudor

 

The Spanish Reconquista and Inquisition

       The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

 

Reconquista,   Spanish Inquisition

 

                          

Ferdinand II of Aragon             Isabella I of Castile

 

The Black Death

       Black Death,   feudal system,   Jacquerie

 

The End of the Middle Ages:  The Fall of Constantinople

       John VIII,   Ottoman Turks,   Council of Florence,   Act of Union,   Execrabilis,  

Constantine XI,   The Fall of Constantinople

 

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