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What were the causes of the Hundred Years War?
What advantages did both sides possess?
What role did Joan of Arc play in the Hundred Years War?

2007-05-19 13:42:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

2 answers

The cause was the belief by the English kings that they should reclaim land and fiefs and the kingdom of France itself, lost by King John to Philip Augustus about 1215. People had married one another and left lands to one another also, so it was even more complicated than that.

The English possessed speed, ability to control the countryside, and the English longbow compared with less sophisticated French knights. The French possessed many fortified places and the ability to wait out English sieges. There were battles at Crecy and Poitiers, where the French tried to war down the English in cavalry charges, but the English responded with infantry counterattacks and the longbow. But English victorories were two and far between. Eventually, the English were slowly shut out of France.

2007-05-19 13:58:42 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 1 0

enable's wreck it down: A. France's extremely small inhabitants - fake. France did have a brilliant inhabitants. B. France's extremely decentralized state - genuine. France had empires around the area alike Britain. They have been decentralized and lost too plenty remote places such as a results of fact the colonies in u . s . a . (French and Indian conflict) and in Africa. C. The absence of vast city centers in France - fake. basically no longer genuine, France became city D. the unwillingness of French kings to take a place in super armies. - the 2nd closest answer. and this might basically be unfaithful as a results of fact France did fund a extensive militia. while they lost they have been thoroughly devistated. E. familiar opposition in France to the conflict - basically unfaithful.

2016-11-25 01:47:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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