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William
________ maintained the Anglo- Saxon administrative system in which countries were divided into hundreds.
Seljuk Turks
The ________ were a nomadic people from Central Asia who had been converted to Islam and flourished as military mercenaries for the Abbasid caliphate.
Europe
The Cistercians played a major role in developing a new activist spiritual model for twelfth- century ________.
Anglo Saxon army
The ________, consisting mostly of foot soldiers armed with shields, swords, and battle- axes, created a shield wall at the top of a hill.
King Canute
________ continued English institutions and laws and even supported the Catholic Church.
Harold Godwinson
After his death, the kingship was taken by ________, who belonged to one of England’s greatest noble families.
Fatimids
An attempt was made in the tenth century to unify the Islamic world under the direction of a Shi’ite dynasty known as the ________.
Crusades
Some historians have argued that the ________ might be considered a ‘‘Christian holy war,’’ whose memories still trouble the relationship between the Muslim world and the West today.
