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It was an exercise unparalleled in contemporary Europe, and was not matched in its comprehensive coverage of the country until the population censuses of the 19th century - although Domesday itself is not a full population census, and the names that appear in it are mainly only those of people who owned land. Used for many centuries for administrative and legal purposes. -
The First Crusade was a military campaign by western European forces to recapture the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. Around 60,000 soldiers and at least half again of non-combatants were involved in the First Crusade which set off on their quest in 1095. -
After the disastrous defeat for the Crusaders in the siege of Xerigordos, two Turkish spies spread a rumor that the German element of the People's Crusade, which had taken Xerigordon, had also taken Nicaea. This had the effect of causing excitement among the main camp of Crusaders to share in the looting of the city as soon as possible. When approaching the valley, the crusaders marched noisily and were immediately subjected to a hail of arrows. -
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
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The siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria.
Two sieges took place in succession.
The first siege, by the crusaders against the city held by the Seljuk Empire, lasted from 20 October 1097 to 3 June 1098. -
The feudalism started from the 5th to the 12th century
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Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself. -
By the time of the battle in 1314, all of Scotland had been cleared of strongholds loyal to Edward II with the exception of the besieged Stirling Castle, which the defenders had promised to surrender if they had not been relieved by June 24. To meet Edward’s army, Robert gathered his smaller force, consisting of perhaps 7,000 infantry and several hundred light horse, at the New Park, a hunting preserve a mile or two south of Stirling. -
The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina.
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The Black Death moves from China and Central Asia to Europe when an army led by Mongol ruler Janibeg attacks the Genoese trading port of Kaffa in Crimea.
As infected soldiers die from the disease, Janibeg catapults their plague-infested bodies into the town to infect his enemies.
From Kaffa, Genoese ships carry the epidemic westward to Mediterranean ports, quickly spreading the disease inland. -
The Black Death takes a great toll on all of Europe, claiming the lives of an estimated 25 million people by 1351, including half of the population of 100,000 in Paris, France. -
The British government tries to make adjustments after the Black Death, setting maximum wages during the labor shortage and adding a poll tax.
Economic and social tensions rise and lead to the Peasants’ Revolt.