https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1 en-us 2019-01-04 17:09:04 UTC 2019-01-08 20:40:28 UTC hello@padlet.com wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317938974 Within 100 years of Charlemagne’s death, organized, large-scale government in Europe all but disappeared. By the 900s most Europeans were governed by small, local, independent leaders, most often by local lords. The political organization these lead- ers represented is known as feudalism.]]> 2019-01-07 16:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317938974 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317941366 Rome had ruled much of Europe. Now much of the land would fall into confusion as local kings and rulers tried to grab power. This is the start of the Dark Ages or the Middle Ages.]]> 2019-01-07 16:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317941366 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317944934 The Crusades were wars between the Holy Roman Empire and the Muslims over the Holy Land. There would be several Crusades over the next 200 years.]]> 2019-01-07 16:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317944934 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317947039 was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the Country of Edessa  in 1144 to the forces of Zenji.]]> 2019-01-07 16:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317947039 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317951349 was an attempt by the leaders of the three most powerful states of Western Christianity to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem  by the Ayybid sultan, Saladin, in 1187. It was largely successful, recapturing the important cities of Acre and Jaffa, and reversing most of Saladin's conquests, but it failed to recapture Jerusalem, which was the major aim of the Crusade and its religious focus.]]> 2019-01-07 16:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317951349 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317953297 was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, by first conquering the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate, the strongest Muslim nation of the time. However, a sequence of economic and political events culminated in the Crusader army sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Greek Christian-controlled Byzantine Empire.]]> 2019-01-07 16:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317953297 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317965652 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the , against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. Each side drew many allies into the war. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Ages, in which five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe. The war marked both the height of chivalry and its subsequent decline, and the development of strong national identities in both countries.]]> 2019-01-07 17:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317965652 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317980560 Magna Carta made the law the supreme power in England.

]]> 2019-01-07 17:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/317980560 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318406815 The East–West Schism, also called the Great Schism and the Schism of 1054, was the break of communion between what are now the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches, which had lasted until the 11th century. The Schism was the culmination of theological and political differences between the Christian East and West which had developed over the preceding centuries.]]> 2019-01-08 16:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318406815 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318411246  Charlemagne is crowned emperor - December 25, 800. Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king, Charlemagne, Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800 in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, making him the most powerful ruler of his time. In November 799, Charlemagne set out for Rome.]]> 2019-01-08 16:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318411246 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318414317 The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe.]]> 2019-01-08 16:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318414317 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318414786 The Vikings from Scandinavia in the north. Vikings, or “Norsemen,” were Germanic peoples from what are now the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. ]]> 2019-01-08 16:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318414786 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318414959 is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries and marking the transition from the middle ages to modernity. The traditional view focused more on the early modern aspects of the Renaissance and argued that it was a break from the past, but many historians today focus more on its medieval aspects and argue that it was an extension of the late medieval period.]]> 2019-01-08 16:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318414959 wliu00 https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318415035 The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Catholic Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.]]> 2019-01-08 16:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/wliu00/mvfigplqrbn1/wish/318415035