| A | B |
|---|
| Power of monarchs during feudal times | Less power than Nobels and the Church |
| monarchs | kings |
| 3 ways monarchs expanded their power | set up royal courts, developed system of taxation, built standing armies |
| organized government bureaucracies, strengthened ties with middle class | 2 ways monarchs increased their power over Nobels and the Church |
| Result of the increase in the monarch's power | Built the framework for modern-day nation states |
| 1066 | Norman Conquest |
| Norman Conquest | William of Normandy defeats the Aglo Saxons |
| Hastings | Where William of Normandy defeated the Anglo-Saxons |
| 1086 | Domesday Book |
| Domesday Bookk | Survey that William I used as a basis for taxation |
| 1160s - 1180s | Development of Common Law |
| Common Law | Henry II lays the foundation for English legal system |
| 1215 | Magna Charta |
| Magna Carta | King John sings this document limiting royal power and extending rights |
| 1295 | Model Parliament |
| Model Parliament | King Edward I summons Parliament, which includes representatives of common people |
| How monarchs in France were different from England | They did not rule over a unified kingdom |
| Group of kings who made the throne hereditary in France | Capetian kings |
| Capetian kings | added to their lands by playing nobles against each other, won the suport of the Church, built an effective bureaucracy |
| Philip II of France | Granted charters to new towns, introduced standing army, introduced new national tax |
| Filled government positions with loyal middle-class officials, quadrupled land holdings | Philip II |
| Louis IX | Checked up on local officials; ended serfdom in his lands; expanded royal courts |
| Outlawed private wars; left France an efficient centralized monarchy | Louis IX |
