Warm Up: p. 34
1. What would you be willing to go to war
for (or fight for)? Why?
2. What would you be unwilling to go to
war for? Why?
“A Man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” –Malcolm X
Crusades Guided Notes p. 35
What were the Crusades?
• Volunteer armies from Catholic
Europe attacked Muslims in
order to gain control over
Jerusalem.
Lets go capture
Jerusalem from the
Muslims!
• These Holy Wars between
Catholic Europe and the
Muslims were called the
Crusades.
Battle between the Muslims and the Catholic Crusaders
Crusaders
Why all the fighting?
Christians, Muslims, and Jews
all believe that the city of
Jerusalem is a holy place.
To Muslims it was where
Muhammad ascended into
Heaven.
To Jews it was the promised
land.
To Christians it was where
Jesus was crucified.
From 600 CE – 1095 CE,
Muslims ruled Jerusalem.
In 1095 CE a new group of
Muslims took over Jerusalem
and stopped allowing
Christians and Jews to enter
Jerusalem.
A Call to Arms!
Leave your homes
and go to Jerusalem
to fight! It is the will of
God!
Pope Urban II called upon
Catholics of all social classes
to fight the Muslims to regain
control of Jerusalem.
This was called a crusade, or a Holy
War
About 30,000 men volunteered
and left to fight.
“Just War”
Pope Urban II
Why did individuals
participate in the Crusades?
“For knights, this was a chance to
use their fighting skills, something
they enjoyed and did well. They
were delighted to have such a
worthy battle to fight.
For peasants, this was a chance to
escape from their dreary life in the
feudal system. The pope promised
that if they died while fighting a
holy crusade, they would
automatically be welcomed into
heaven.
For others, it was a chance to have
an adventure, and perhaps even to
get rich.”
(From http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/crusades.html)
Unorganized attackers..
Finally a chance
to use all my
fighting training!
Maybe I’ll even
get rich!
My life is horrible.
At least if I die, I’ll
go straight to
heaven.
The end of the first crusade
• After a siege of the city,
Jerusalem fell to the Christians.
• Some stayed in the cities,
others returned to their homes
in Western Europe
• Those who returned brought
cultural and scientific
advancements from the Islamic
civilization
More Crusades!?
• 9 crusades in all, not all launched by
popes
• During the 3rd Crusade, Saladin leads
the Arabs to victory. Arabs again
control Jerusalem
– Saladin makes a treaty with Richard the
Lionheart that allowed unarmed
Christians to enter into the Holy Land
• Muslims control Jerusalem until the
20th century
What were the effects of
the Crusades?
1) As a result of the
Crusades, Europeans
learned about the
advanced technology that
Muslims had created.
Islamic civilization was
advanced in science and
medicine.
What were the effects of
the Crusades?
2) Western Europe began to
trade more directly with the
East.
Cultural Diffusion
What were the effects of
the Crusades?
Everyone is leaving their
manor for me! I seem to
be a lot more powerful
than any one lord….
3) The system of feudalism was
broken down.
The Crusades weakened the
power of individual lords and
nobles. Kings and the Pope
gained more power.
Pope
Effects of the Crusades on
Europe
• Work with an elbow-partner to read through
the list
• FIRST: list 5 significant changes brought about
by the Crusades beneath your warm up on p.34
• SECOND: answer the questions on the sheet.
Before and After the
Crusades:
Fold a sheet of blank
paper in ½
On one ½, label it
“before the Crusades”
On the other ½ label it
“after the crusades”
Using what you know
from life before the
crusades and what you
learned today, draw and
label at least four
images on both sides of
the sheet
Israel/Palestine