Date: _____________
The Hundred Years’ War Quiz pp. 145-148
Name: ___________________
WRITE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES!!! (3 marks each) You do NOT have to copy the questions down.
1. What was the Hundred Years’ War about? Why did it happen?
- Lasted from 1338 – 1453, 115 years
- War between the kings/nobles of England and France
- English king felt he had right to throne b/c he’s nephew of French king, so he invaded France
2. What was war like in the 14th and 15th centuries?
- Unlike modern warfare w/ weapons of mass destruction
- Frequent long truces
- Nb fought during winter (roads were impassable)
- During military campaign, armies spend much time getting into position , burning homes, destroying crops,
steal farmers’ food
3. What could the longbow do? (How did the longbow turn metal armour into a worthless technology?)
- Shoot arrows (1m) from bow (2m)
- Can penetrate knight’s plate armour and kill him
- Very strong – can go thru armoured leg, the body of horse, and knight’s leg on other side
4. Why was Joan of Arc able to rally the French in the Hundred Years’ War?
- Claimed that God spoke to her (drive the English out of France)
- Got them to stand together behind French king as one nation
- Looked inspirational w/ white banner and drove English from Orleans and escorted the dauphin to Reims to
be crowned
Paragraph Question: Answer in complete sentences and proper paragraph form (at least 6 sentences long). (10 marks
each) Do not forget to give your paragraph an appropriate title.
1. Why did the Hundred Years’ War last so long? (Consider the strategy required for defeating castles and France’s
failures on the battlefield, and new technologies that the British developed.) Why were the French eventually
victorious?
- Over the years, English controlled lots of France (war kept going back & forth)
- Well-defended castle could keep enemies out for months cuz enemies had to wait for people inside to run
out of food
- French knights refused to fight anyone of “low birth” but had to get through the low-born archers to fight
English knights, either got killed by archers or captured (then had to pay large sums to get freed)
- Longbow could pierce armour and kill (archers); catapults, battering rams, movable towers, dig mines under
walls to attack castles
- Trench warfare – long truces, no fighting during winter
- Spent much time manoeuvring for position
- Travelled long distances from place to place, burning homes, trampling crops, stealing from farmers
2. Who was Joan of Arc? Was she a great leader? Why?
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1429, 17-yr-old peasant girl said that God spoke to her and told her to drive English out of France
Dauphin (heir to throne) skeptical but did give her suit of armour, white banner, and some soldiers
Drove English from Orleans and so escorted dauphin to Reims to be crowned as king
Great leader because she got the French to get together (knights and peasants) to fight as one country
(so rather than collection of different fiefdoms (manors) fighting e.o., united together to fight the English)
Also helped end feudalism b/c made king stronger at the nobles’ expense (made the king a true
commander-in-chief and made the nobles weaker)