Question
A 1409 decree named for this town granted academics votes regarding the affairs of Charles University, and it was the site of a 1421 battle of the Hussite Wars. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this town, a major medieval economic centre. After the discovery of silver deposits at this town, Wenceslaus II invited Gozzo of Orvieto to develop the Iūs rēgāle montānōrum (“yoos reh-GAH-leh mon-tah-NOR-um”) mining law code.
ANSWER: Kutná Hora [or Hory Kutné, or Kuttenberg; accept the Decree or Battle thereof]
[10e] The mines at Kutná Hora supplied silver to this medieval kingdom, earlier ruled by the “Iron and Golden King” Ottokar II. This Czech kingdom was ruled by the Přemyslids from Prague.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Bohemia [or České království, or Königreich Böhmen, or Regnum Bohemiae]
[10m] The Prague groschen silver currency served as the model for a similar groschen issued from Meissen by a holder of this title. Holders of this general title were originally military governors of border provinces in the Holy Roman Empire.
ANSWER: margrave [accept Margrave of Meissen; accept Margraviate of Meissen; accept markgraf in place of “margrave”]
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