History: King John became king of England in 1199 when his brother, King Richard I, died. To many he was mean, greedy and overall a failure as king. In 1205, while arguing over sucession of the throne w/ his nephew, Arthur, England lost the territory of France, and to try and regain the land for the rest of his reign he kept raising taxes to pay for his campaigns, though every time he went to France to fight England ___ lost. In the year 1215 England's upper class was tired of paying the extra taxe
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