The Hundred Years War
The Hundred Years’ War is the common name given to a series of conflicts between the two great European nations of the time, France and England. The conflicts, which were broken up periodically by numerous truces and treaties, lasted from 1337 till 1453. The conflict stemmed from the fact that successive English kings controlled large areas in France called fiefs. To make matters worse, in 1308, England’s Prince Edward II married the daughter of King Phillip IV of France. The war consisted of three major conflicts; The Edwardian War (1340-1360), The Caroline War (1369-1389), and the Lancastrian War (1415-1435).In the fourteenth century, the upper-middle class English had taken up the idea of drinking wine instead of beer. Both wine and beer were considered sources of nutrition. They both contained vitamins and yeast complexes that many people of the medieval era lacked in their diets. The problem was that grapes didn’t grow in the English climate. They grew quite well however in the fields of Southern France. During the 1200’s, the English set up a triangular trade route between England, Southern France, and a city called Flanders. Flanders was an important industrial center due to it’s production of cl
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