Crusades
Definitions
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Crusades – wars between Christians and Muslim Turks.
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Crusaders – Christian soldiers taking part in the Crusades.
Questions
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Give three reasons for the Crusades.
(a)
The Crusaders wanted to win back the Holy Land in Palestine.
(b)
The Pope wanted to reunite the two Christian Churches.
(c)
Many kings and nobles wanted to get some land and to get rich.
Why did the Crusades fail?
(a)
There were no good military leaders.
(b)
Many crusaders had selfish interests.
Kings and nobles wanted to get land.
Soldiers wanted to get
treasures. Merchants wanted to get new markets.
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What were the effects of the Crusades?
(a)
The Crusades weakened Feudalism.
Many nobles went on the Crusades. When they were away,
some kings took back the land and power from them.
(b)
The Crusades changed the way of life in the West.
fruit, sugar, silk and carpets.
Feudalism declined.
Crusaders bought back things such as spices,
So the trade with the East grew and this helped to exchange ideas
between people in the East and in the West.
(c)
The Crusades led to the rise of Italian city-states. Many Italian city-states were on the route to the
Holy Land. They supplied ships, food and water to the crusaders, and sold goods brought back by
them. Traders there became rich and powerful.
(d)
Westerners learned many things from the Crusades, e.g. geography, mathematics, paper making and
printing.
This knowledge had a great influence on medicine, education and scientific developments,
and on warfare in the West.
Fill in the blanks
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The Holy Land was the place where Jesus Christ was born, grew up, preached Christianity and died.
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Jerusalem, the place where Jesus died, is a Holy City in Palestine.
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Many children died in the Children’s Crusade and the rest were sold to the Muslims in Egypt as slaves.
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Among all the Crusades, only the first Crusade was successful.
After this Crusade, the crusaders defeated
the Muslims and regained most of Palestine.
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The Pope in Rome first called on the Christians to take part in the Crusades.
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The Third Crusade was also called the ‘Crusade of Kings’.
of England fought with the Muslims.
Among the three kings, only King Richard I
At last he made peace with Saladin.
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Traders, nobles, kings and even children took part in the Crusades.
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There was a cross on the clothes of the Crusaders.