Unit V facts

Question 1

Spanish hero and soldier who defeated the Muslim Moors

Answer 1

El Cid

Question 2

Saxon king of England who would rather be in church and die without an heir

Answer 2

Edward the Confessor

Question 3

King of Scotland who was killed by Macbeth

Answer 3

Duncan

Question 4

Son of slain king of Scotland who drove Macbeth out and took throne

Answer 4

Malcom

Question 5

Norman who came to England to claim the throne - and took it.

Answer 5

William the Conqueror

Question 6

Battle marking the end of Saxon reign in England and the beginning of Norman reign

Answer 6

battle of Hastings

Question 7

Saxon king of England defeated and killed by Norman army

Answer 7

Harold Godwinson

Question 8

Native of Normandy descended from Norsemen

Answer 8

Norman

Question 9

Date of the battle of Hastings

Answer 9

1066 A.D.

Question 10

Holy Roman emperor who was excommunicated for refusal to recognize the authority of the pope

Answer 10

Henry IV

Question 11

Pope who excommunicated the Holy Roman emperor, but died in exile

Answer 11

Gregory VII

Question 12

Pope who called for the First Crusade

Answer 12

Pope Urban II

Question 13

Muslim rulers of Jerusalem after 1070 A.D.

Answer 13

Turks

Question 14

Series of wars to take the Holy Land from the Muslims

Answer 14

The Crusades

Question 15

Leader of the First Crusade army who became king of the Holy Land

Answer 15

Godfrey of Bouillon

Question 16

Monk who took up cause of First Crusade

Answer 16

Peter the Hermit

Question 17

German emperor who drowned in his armor on the way to the Holy Land

Answer 17

Frederick Barbarossa

Question 18

Leader of the Muslims in their recapture of Jerusalem

Answer 18

Saladin