The Crusades
By Samuel Lewis and Melanie Logan
The Crusades
• A series of Holy Wars
• Emperor Alexuis I asks Pope Urban III for help
• Started when Muslim Turks attack the Holy Land
• Many ordinary people were motivated by riches.
The Crusades
• They took back Holy land in 1099
• Wars went on and off for 200 years
• Conquered land divided into 4 small states
Who won the Wars?
• 1st Crusade- Christians
• 2nd – 9th Crusade-Muslims
Children’s Crusade
• In 1212 two groups joined the Crusades
-From France and Germany
-Mostly made up of Children
• It didn’t end very well
The Impact
• Expanded the European Economy
• Crusaders brought back Byzantine goods like
-Fabrics
-Spices
- Perfumes
• Fleets turned into trade ships
Pros and Cons of Crusades
Pros
Cons
• Helped increase
• Power struggle still
trade
went on
• Brought foreign
• Many people had
goods to Europe
died
• Gave power to the
• Christians lost the
Pope and the Church
Holy Land
Effects on Monarchs and the Church
• Increase of power in monarchs
-Rulers used taxes to support the Crusades
• Papal at its highest point
- Short-lived period
- Power struggle against Monarchs
Wide Worldview Evolves
• Christians discovered regions
• Europeans traveled to India and China
- 1400 trade began with Europe and these two
countries.
Marco Polo
• Originally from Europe
• Went to China with merchant father and
uncle.
- questioned their trip to China
• Marco Polo and Crusades introduced Europe
to a bigger world