Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Consequences Of TheHundred
Years War: Short/Long Terms
- Impact on France and
England at the time
- Some areas of France
(Normandy) were devastated
during the fighting
- Armies on both sides seized
crops and animals and stole any
riches they could find
- On both sides a lot of
ordinary men died.
- The English had fewer casualites
- Many English deaths were from
dusentary rather than
destruction from the battlefiield
- If an army retreated they
would brun buildings behind
them so that the advancing
enemy wouldn't get it
- The Cost of War
- The high cost of weapons was very
expensive , so was food, armour and
horses. War was expensive
- Both the French and English
had to pay higher taxes for
the was frequently
- By the end off the war, the
English army lost wealthy
French Regions like Normandy
and Aquitaine.
- Some Englishmen got very rich from
the stolen goods taken from France
- The Military Impact
- The war changed how battles were fought
- Before the Hundred Years War, the
knights were on horseback , which
made the fighting powerful
- However, it was the archers, firing a lot
of arrows which led the great victory in
Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt
- Soon the ordinary foot soldiers were the
key element than the calvary men
- The Birth of English Identity
- The Hundred Years war
caused the two countries
to forge their own
identities
- England and France have been
connected since the days when William,
Duke of Normandy, defeated Harold
- England stopped using French as
its official language.
- It was seen as "enemy language"
- The common language, English,
began to develop. Kings started
using the language
- They called themselves as 'English'
- A much more unified
country developed
against the French
- The Scots and everyone else; Crécy,
Agincourt and other major battles
gave English the sense of pride and
unique identity.
- English lost territories in France
- England became less
involved in relations with
the rest of Europe
- England's outlook and
aims were focused on
lands out of Europe
- French Unity
- France had long been a collection of seperate territories
- A great number of the powerful,
important French nobles who controlled
the areas were killed
- As a result, the king of France
emerged more powerful
- The high cost of paying for the war
led the French to set up a better
system of taxing the whole country