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adjectivebeing ten more than one hundred thirty
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- charles King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
- gregory the Italian pope from 1406 to 1415 who worked to end the Great Schism and who retired to make it possible (1327-1417)
- percy English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)
- timur Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)
- chaucer English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)
- hypertension a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)
- huss Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)
- sardis an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; as the capital of Lydia it was the cultural center of Asia Minor; destroyed by Tamerlane in 1402
- gutenberg German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
- hus Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)