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What was the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France and what was its influence?
The Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, which lasted from 1337 to 1453, was the longest war in the world and lasted intermittently for 1 16 years. During the Hundred Years War, many new tactics and weapons were developed.

The victory of the war enabled France to complete national reunification and laid the foundation for its future expansion in the European continent. England lost almost all French territory, but it also made nationalism rise in England. At that time, the vikings harassed and invaded the French coast for a long time. During the Carolingian dynasty, Charles III, the Frankish ruler, agreed that these northern Europeans would settle in Normandy on the French coast, and they later established the Principality of Normandy.

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First of all, the influence of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France is reflected in the war system of both sides. At first, the soldiers of the two countries mainly came from nobles, and their service time was limited, which was very unfavorable to Britain, which was fighting across the sea at that time, so they began to recruit lower-class people as soldiers. In the early days of the war, France suffered repeated defeats and wars. In order to resist Britain, it expanded the ruling power of the French royal family.

In the end, both countries embarked on the road of centralization. Secondly, it is reflected in tactical thinking. At first, France used cavalry to fight the enemy head-on in every large-scale battle, but it often ended in failure, so it began to use infantry in the later period, and gradually won in the subsequent wars, and the cavalry gradually declined.