Chapter 8 Section 5

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Chapter 8 Section 5

• A Time of Crisis

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Church Splits

• 1309 papal court to Avignon, France
• Schism split within the Church
• 1378 new pope in Rome
• French cardinals pope in Avignon
• Solution 1417 compromise candidate, Pope Martin
  V (Rome)

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The Hundred Years War

• 1337-1453 France vs. England
• Why?
• Edward III of England claims French throne
• Power over English Channel

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King of England
Wants the French Throne
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England Triumphsat first

• English Victories
• Crecy 1346
• Poitiers 1356
• Agincourt 1415
• Why?
• Longbow beats old crossbow

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France Triumphs

• 1429 Joan of Arc
• 17 years old
• God told her to fight
• Captured in England
• Tried for witchcraft
• Burned at the stake
• Later declared a saint

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Result of 100 years war

• France
• Kings expand power
• Nationalism
• England
• Parliament gains power
• Need for armies (not vassals)

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Black Death

• The Black Death
• Fleas carried by rats bubonic plague
• Epidemic outbreak of rapid-spreading disease
• 1300s China (35 million people died) to Middle
  East
• Black Sea to Sicily
• Sicily to Italy
• Italy to Europe

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Economy Suffers

• Workers die so production declines
• Survivors demand higher wages
• Inflation rising prices
• Convert croplands to sheep raising
• Angry peasants and revolts