the crusades

Question 1

crusade means

Answer 1

“holy war”

Question 2

main purpose for the crusades

Answer 2

to recapture Palestine and Jerusalem from the Muslims

Question 3

who started the crusades

Answer 3

launched by Pope Urban II in 1095

Question 4

response to Urban’s appeal ==peter the hermit

Answer 4

immediate and enthusiastic
-Peter the Hermit (zealous preacher) gathered a bunch of poor knights and enthusiastic peasants-women and men–and set out for Palestine without training, weapons, supplies, of a plan

-ended in disaster= they fought with Greeks and Turks along the way as well as with each other

Question 5

the first crusade

Answer 5

-french and Norman nobles organized a military
-captures strategic sites
-got jerusalem
-but both got recaptured very quickly
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Question 6

later crusades

Answer 6

• five more

- none established a presence in Palestine

Question 7

fourth crusade

Answer 7

went bad when they conquered Constantinople
and est. a roman catholic regime
-the byzantine empire never recovered and declined until the ottoman turks took over in 1453

Question 8

results of the crusades

Answer 8

• -european scholars talked with muslim scholars and exchanged ideas, technology, trade goods
• -arabic numerals
• -paper production
• -new foods and agricultural products