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Innovations of High Middle Ages
- heavy plow
- collar harness-better for horses
- horse shoe
- windmill
Respublica Christiana

Christian Commonweath
Alfred the Great
- King of Wessex
- learned to read at 40
William the Conqueror
- duke of Normandy
- kept one sixth of conquered England, gave rest to nobles
- Domesday Book
shires

counties
Henry 2

proponent of trial by jury
Exchequer

royal accountant
Magna Carta
- Great Charter
- originally for barons rights
Hugh Capet
- count of Paris
- became king in 987
Louis 6

subdued barons
Philip Augustus

successfully attacked King John
Louis 9
- nice guy
- bypassed vassals
Philip 4

struggle with papacy
Otto the Great
- King of Germany
- determined to control dukes
- First "Emperor of Rome"-"Holy Roman Emperor"
Pope Nicholas 2

moved to keep Roman nobles and German HRE's from choosing pope
Hildebrand
- later Pope Gregory 7
- exponent of reform movement
Urban 2

wanted Pope to be supreme
Peter the Hermit
- major evangelist
- led crusade
Frederick 1
- Red Beard-Barbarossa
- tried to assert authority over cities
Saladin
- brilliant commander
- most powerful leader in Muslim Near East
- invaded Palestine and kicked butt
Pope Innocent 3

called for crusade 4
William the Pig and Hugo the Iron

sold young crusaders
Gregory 9

used Franciscans and Dominicans as investigators to find heratics
Peter Waldo

gave up all his stuff and got other people to do the same
Simon de Montfort
- ambitious minor baron
- given control of crusading army
Saint Francis

Born rich, gave stuff away
Dominic
- Saint
- encouraged followers to study
Moses ben Maimon (Maimon)

foremost Jewish scholar of Middle Ages

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Western Civ chapter 10

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High Middle Ages

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2010-11-02T22:33:51Z

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