Middle Ages: The English Nation

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  1. 5. early inhabitants of Britain known for their appearance in battle (they dyed their bodies blue) and their pagan religion
  2. 7. a nation-state that includes Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  3. 8. missionary to Britain commissioned by Pope Gregory the Great in 597; converted Ethelbert, King of Kent, to Christianity and became the first archbishop of Canterbury
  4. 9. (ruled 1189-1199) known as the Lionheart; spent most of reign waging war in Holy Land.
  5. 10. (1066) a decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Anglo-Saxons to take England
  6. 12. a guarantee that legal proceedings will be fairly and consistently administered before punishments are enforced
  7. 14. powerful English noble who was made king of England after Edward the Confessor's death; the last Anglo-Saxon king of England
  8. 16. an island consisting of England, Scotland, and Wales
  9. 17. Viking leader who became king of England in 1016, ruling England, Denmark, and Norway as an entire empire
  10. 21. a group of islands (two main islands) off the northwestern coast of Europe; includes the United Kingdom and Ireland
  11. 22. (1215) document that limited the king's ability to tax English nobles and that guaranteed due process and a right to trial by jury
  12. 23. (ruled 1199-1216) raised taxes and punished enemies without a trial; he is best known for being forced to sign the Magna Carta
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  1. 1. a record of all of the people and property (land and livestock) in England, recorded by a census under William the Conqueror in 1086
  2. 2. (rule 1066-1087) duke of Normandy who became the first Norman king of England
  3. 3. (1337-1453) war fought between France and England for control of the French throne and English-owned land in French; French victory
  4. 4. (1455-1485) wars between two groups of English nobles for control of England; the House of Lancaster (red roses) defeated the House of York (white roses) and the Tudor dynasty began
  5. 6. (lived 1412-1431) French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English; captured and executed by the British
  6. 11. (849-899) king of Wessex who defeated the invading Danes and became the first King of the Anglo-Saxons
  7. 13. guilt or innocence is decided by a group of peers rather than a king or a judge
  8. 15. Celtic priests and judges who conducted religious ceremonies, which included human sacrifice
  9. 18. A kingdom of the German Saxons and Angles united under King Alfred the Great in the late 9th century
  10. 19. a country in the south of Great Britain and which is a part of the United Kingdom
  11. 20. Christian missionary to the Celts in Ireland in the latter half of the 5th Century