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- 10. A French peasant girl whose religious and patriotic passion inspired the French and turned the tide of battle in the Hundred Years' War.
- 11. The royal marriage of this king of Aragon and this queen of Castile-Leon united Spain's largest Christian kingdoms in 1469.
- 14. This group was falsely blamed for spreading the plague.
- 16. Dominican friar who was the head of the Spanish Inquisition.
- 18. Word meaning "reconquest," it was an effort to drive Muslims off the Iberian Peninsula.
- 19. English king who invaded France in 1337, beginning the Hundred Years' War between France and England.
- 22. Where the bubonic plague epidemic originally began before spreading along trade routes.
- 24. The type of plague that struck Europe in 1347.
- 25. People who are blamed for a problem that they did not cause
- 28. When the rich fled the towns of Europe because of the plague, they often took this group with them.
- 29. Originally called the Great Dying, this was the name later given to the plague that spread through Europe in the mid 1300s.
- 33. The English won key battles early in the Hundred Years' War thanks to this powerful weapon.
- 34. Norman kings of England were _____ to the French kings.
- 38. Travelers carried the plague up rivers and over these allowing it to spread throughout Europe.
- 39. The bubonic plague killed an estimated ____ million people globally.
- 40. In this battle in 1346, the French army disintegrated under a barrage of arrows shot by the English.
- 41. A serious shortage of food; Europe had a "great" one of these from 1315 to 1317.
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- 1. In 1381, English peasants killed lords and burned manors during this rebellion.
- 2. By the middle of the 1200s, this was the last Muslim-controlled kingdom in Spain.
- 3. These areas suffered the most during the Hundred Years' War thanks to the destruction of their crops by roaming armies.
- 4. A change in this may have played a part in the decline of Europe's economy in the 1300s.
- 5. Kings from England and France competed over who would be king of this country.
- 6. A series of Church investigations used to find and punish heretics.
- 7. The Shock of the Black Death brought about the end of the Middle Ages in Europe and the arrival of the _____ world.
- 8. England lost this percentage of its clergy due to the Black Death and had to hire uneducated men in response.
- 9. Demanded wages for their work and left manors to find higher wages after the plague.
- 12. The greatest expulsion effort of non-Christians took place in this peninsula that includes present-day Spain and Portugal.
- 13. During and after these wars ideas as well as goods were exchanged between the eastern Mediterranean region and Europe.
- 15. In this city 2,000 Jews were forced to convert to Christianity or be burned to death.
- 17. People infected with the plague rode merchant ____ from the East to ports in Europe.
- 20. The Cordoba ______ was split into small, weak kingdoms during a period of civil war in Spain beginning in 1002.
- 21. Muslim city that fell to the Christian alliance in Spain in 1236.
- 23. Name given to the swellings that covered the bodies of those infected with the bubonic plague.
- 26. The _____ of the Late Middle Ages reveals an obsession with death and disease.
- 27. The first major victory in the Reconquista was the capture of this city in 1085.
- 30. Long before the Crusades, ____ urged Christians in Spain to wage war against the Muslims.
- 31. These infected creatures that lived on rats may have been the cause of the bubonic plague.
- 32. The fraction of people who died in Europe and the Muslim world from the plague.
- 35. Some Chinese cities may have lost up to this percentage of their population during the bubonic plague epidemic.
- 36. A disease that spreads quickly through a population.
- 37. In 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella issued a decree that _______ all Jews who refused to convert to Christianity.
- 42. At this battle in 1415, the longbow brought the English another major victory.