Middle Ages, People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Phillip IV | French King who kidnapped the Pope |
| Saladin' | Muslim general who recaptured the Holy Land |
| Edward II | English King who wanted the French throne |
| Dante | wrote the Divine Comedy; about Virgil, heaven, hell, purgatory |
| Urban II | asked Christian knights to start a crusade |
| Clovis | leader of the Franks who spread Christianity |
| Joan of Arc | led the French forces in the Hundred Years War, was burned at the stake |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | wrote Canaburry Tales about pilgrims going to the Holy Land |
| Charlemagne | Charles the Great, spread Christianity- Emperor of Romans |
| Thomas Aquinas | medieval scholastic thinker |
| Charles Martel | "The Hammer" hammered Muslims out of Europe at the Battle of Tours |
| John Wycliffe | believed sacraments and priests were unnecessary |
| Roger Bacon | father of experimental science |
| Francis of Assisi | monk who started a religious order |
| Peter the Hermit | monk who led the First Crusade |
| Richard the Lionhearted | led the Third Crusade, negiotiated a truce |
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