The document summarizes key people and events from English history between William I and Edward I. It discusses the gradual limitation of the king's power by Parliament, the formation of the Magna Carta, and how the Third Crusade allowed Muslim trade and pilgrimages to the Holy Land. It also mentions Simon de Monfort limiting his brother-in-law's power, the basis of inheritance through primogeniture, and feudalism involving lords, vassals and fiefs.

1. HISTORY TRIOS
(William I – Edward I)

2. 1.
A] The body called ______________ gradually
limited the power of the king.
B] ‘No taxation without representation’ refers to
the forming of __________________.
C] ________________ is a two-chamber unit.

3. 2.
A] _____________ is one of the first statutes in the
history of England.
B] The document known as ________________
exists only in four surviving exemplifications.
C] The authors of _____________ were the barons
accountable to King John.

4. 3.
A] The second oldest world university is
___________________ .
B] The head of _________________ was named
‘chancellor’ starting from 1201.
C] The motto of __________________ is ‘The Lord
is my Light.’

5. 4.
A] As the result of ________________, Jerusalem
remained under the Muslim control.
B] Muslims allowed trade and unarmed Christian
pilgrimages to the Holy Land because of the
success of _____________ .
C] Cyprus and Jaffa were among the places
annexed during ____________________ .

6. 5.
A] ________________ wanted to limit the power of
his brother-in-law by all means possible.
B] Because of _________________’s great tactics,
the policy of sending two representatives from
each borough came into being.
C] ______________ was killed at the battle of
Evesham and burried nearby.

7. 6.
A] The first born (preferably a son) was to inherit
the throne on the basis of _______________ .
B] _________________ has been applied
throughout history to the inheritance of real
property within royal houses.
C] It was useful for the monarch to be a ruler as
well as a warrior and, following that,
________________ was justified.

8. 7.
A] _______________ describes a set of reciprocal
dependencies based on lords, vassals and
fiefs.
B] Peasantry bounds by manorialism were one of
the key parts of _______________ .
C] Because of multiple differences in land
tenure, _________________ had historical
variations.

9. 8.
A] __________________- or that of precedence –
was based mainly on the decisions of judges
rather than on legislative statutes.
B] Henry II instituted _________________ to lift the
local legal customs to the national level.
C] Henry’s decision to create ______________
resulted from him trying to curb the church
court and intervention.

10. 9.
A] _______________ tells a story of a man or a
woman (depending on the singer) wanting the
impossible: a shirt without a seam.
B] In the chorus part of _________________ a lot of
herbs are mentioned as ingredients of the
stuffing for baked poultry dishes.
C] Probably the spices and herbs mentioned in
______________ may refer to the Black Death,
when the very herbs were to ward off the dead
and the dying.

11. 10.
A] _____________’s mother was Adela of
Normandy.
B] The people of London cheered _____________
at their new king hoping for more rights and
privilages for the capital.
C] On the basis of the treaty of 1153,
_____________ ‘s son, after the father’s death,
was to do homage to Henry as the next king
on the English throne.

12. ANSWERS:
1. Parliament
2. Magna Carta
3. Oxford Univeristy
4. The Third Crusade
5. Simon de Monfort
6. the right of primogeniture
7. feudalism
8. The Common Law
9. Scarborough Fair
10. Stephen (de Blois)