12 questions
The city of Jerusalem is important to what three major religions?
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam
Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism
The First Crusade got started when the Seljuk Turks did what?
Made it dangerous for Christians to go to Jerusalem
Attacked Rome
Burnt down the city of Jerusalem
Destroyed the Byzantine Empire
Why did people join in fighting in the Crusades?
Knights liked to fight and fighting in the Crusades was not a sin.
People could keep what they plundered.
They thought it would help them get into heaven.
All of these answers
They wanted to retake the Holy Land from Muslims.
Why was the First Crusade the most successful?
The crusaders captured and gained control of Jerusalem.
The crusaders took over the Byzantine Empire.
The crusaders drove the Muslims out of the Iberian Peninsula.
The crusaders were from?
throughout Western Europe
The Byzantine Empire
The Holy Land
Eurasia
A pilgrimage is....
a journey to a sacred place
the government of the Roman Catholic Church
a series of actions tending toward a particular end
The Crusades closed trade routes between the Muslim East and Christian West.
True
False
What group's conquest of Jerusalem caused the start of the Crusades?
Seljuk Turks
Fatimid Arabs
Byzantine Empire
Roman Rebels
Muslim scholars in the Middle East preserved ancient __________ and ___________ knowledge that had been lost in Europe.
Greek and Roman
Egyptian and Mesopatamian
Indian and Chinese
Japanese and Mongolian
Effects of the Crusades included
continued decline of feudalism
rise of a merchant class in Europe
exchange of goods and ideas between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean
increased intolerance for non-Christians
The Reconquista was the reconquering of Italy from Muslims
True
False
Effects of the Crusades on Jewish people were
Jews were expelled (driven out) of Spain and Portugal
many Jews were expelled from England and France
Jews were killed by crusaders on their way to the Holy Land
Jews increasing joined the merchant class