Crusades

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