History

• Royal authority 


  Rights and power belonging to the king
• Rebellion 


  Act or armed resistance to a leader
• feudalism 


  The dominant society in medieval history
• Monarch 


  A sovereign head of state
• Peasants


  Lowest status of member in society
• Baron 


  A member of british nobility
• what did they need to become king ?

  • Powerful - always in control of there population
  • pious - a good Christian ruler
  • fair - should keep barons happy
• john Worst king

  • failed to regain normandy
  • scrutage tax
  • barons had to demand the magma carta to be signed
• Wasn’t worst king

  • Fed hundreds of paupers in Newcastle
  • built new ships
  • bring in the new rule of a fair trial
• Magna Carta short term


  Only effected freemen such as barons, no scrutage tax paid by barons , inherit land payments
• Long term significance 


  More people in England became freeman

  kings now had to follow rules

  seen as 1st major step in history

  no king as powerful again
• Tudor 


  More positive about john
• Victorian 


  judged John harshly
• Post ww2


  bigger picture of John (government records)
• Modern day 


  A balanced view of John
• 1189


  Richard dies
• 1202-6 


  Angevin empire
• 1215 


  Magna Carta signed
• 1348


  Black Death in england
• 1351 


  Statue of labours
• 1381


  Peasants revolt
• Significance

  • Poll tax not repeated
  • workers wages began to rise
  • parliament gave up controlling peasants wages
  • within 100 years all peasants were feee
• Reformation


  Reform of abuses in Roman church - ending reformed and Protestant churches
• protestant 


  Member of church separated from Roman Catholic Church
• Divine right of kings 


  Kings believed power/authority came from god
• Parliament 


  Highest legislature
• Religious causes of war

  • charles married a catholic
  • appointed a catholic as archbishop
  • tried to make Scot’s read English prayer book
• Economy

  • 11years of tyranny
  • ship money tax
• Political

  • 19 propositions
  • the army
  • conflict with mps
• 1625


  Charles became king
• 1642-1649


  Civil war
• 1660


  Restoration of monarchy
• 1688


  Glorious revolution
• Short term civil war 


  19 propositions

  arrest of 5 mps
• Long term civil war 


  11 years of tyranny

  ship money

  bishops war
• Middle passage 


  African people captured
• Slave triangle - europe 


  Goods shipped into Africa for tribesmen in return
• Slave triangle - Africa 


  Slaves captured and pur onto ship sent to plantation
• slave triangle - America


  Slaves are traded for plantations owners

  food made on plantations shipped back to Europe
• Cash crops 


  Coffee tobacco saves responsible for planting looking after harvesting crops