How did Henry II, the first of Englands Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
the Battle of Hastings
Saint Patricks mission
the Fourth Lateran Council
his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Correct Answer :
D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
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British
German
Dutch
American
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kind
stupid
sensitive
arrogant
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1595
1596
1597
1598
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Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV
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Richard II
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1374 to 1385
1350 to 1360
1360 to 1400
1365 to 1500
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a musician
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a nun
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translators of French romances
women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
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The Massacre at Paris
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Queen Elizabeth
Francis Meres, a lawyer
Burbage, an actor
King James
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Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Ralph Robinson
William Tyndale
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French
Norwegian
Spanish
Hungarian
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Edmund Spenser
John Donne
Shakespeare
John Milton
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1562
1563
1564
1565
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Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
The common people were still essentially pagan.
They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
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Wyclif
Thomas more
John Lyly
Robert Greene
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Chrétien de Troyes
a and c only
b and c only
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Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
William Langland
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The Pope
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1590
1591
1592
1593
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26 April 1566
26 April 1565
26 April 1564
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Margery Kempe
Geoffrey Chaucer
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the Norman Conquest of 1066.
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the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
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Robert Greene
John Milton
Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
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Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
Philippa de Roet of Flanders
Agnes de Copton
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conversion to Christianity
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