The Middle Ages Crusades

Question 1

Gregory VII:

Answer 1

1. Pope
2. Greatly increases papal power for his own benefit

Question 2

Henry IV:

Answer 2

1. King of the HRE
2. Doesn’t want to answer to the pope

Question 3

The Peoples:

Answer 3

1. Some citizens are concerned about the Pope’s increasing power
2. Corrupt people aren’t ok with this
3. Loyal Papal subject are fine with it

Question 4

Lay Investiture:

Answer 4

Who’s in power?; Who gets elected for church positions

Question 5

Urban II:

Answer 5

1. King after Gregory’s death
2. Inherits bad blood in the west
3. He need something to unite the people

Question 6

Urban’s plan:

Answer 6

Save the Byzantine Empire from Islamic Sejuks (aka romans) because they’re christians

Question 7

The Speech at Clermont:

Answer 7

Urban II delivers great speech to save the Byzantines under “God’s Will”

Question 8

Results of The Speech at Clermont:

Answer 8

1. 100,000 soldiers/people go to war
2. Sets up dozens of crusades

Question 9

Excommunicated:

Answer 9

To be kicked out of a religion

Question 10

Events of the 1st Crusade:

Answer 10

1. Huge success
2. Creates unnecessary templar outpost for people’s “safety”
3. Jerusalem and other conquered land is called crusader states

Question 11

What Crudader State gets conquered over and over?

Answer 11

1. Seljuks reconquer a northern state - Edessa
2. Christians get mad
3. Back and forth conquering

Question 12

Events of the 2nd Crusade:

Answer 12

1. Disaster!
2. They’re meant retake Edessa for once and for all
3. They don’t

Question 13

Down in Egypt:

Answer 13

1. Great general Saladin becomes Sultan
2. Saladin invades Jerusalem to demonstrate power

Question 14

Events of the 3rd Crusade:

Answer 14

1. THE crusade
2. Kings lead armies into battle
3. Fredrick goes on a journey

Question 15

Fredrick Barbarossa II:

Answer 15

1. Ruler of HRE
2. HRE at peak power
3. Popes in need of help
4. He drowns on long march
5. They don’t retake Jerusalem
6. Shortly after holy pilgrims are allowed to visit muslim controlled Jerusalem

Question 16

Events of the 4th Crusade:

Answer 16

1. Crazy crusade
2. Launched by pope not-so Innocent III
3. Innocent III gave great speech - 35,000 crusaders show
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Question 17

Problem of the 4th Crusade:

Answer 17

1. Money
2. Inoccent III goes to Venice to buy boats for naval invasion but, once the boats are finished months later, only 11,000 crusaders show up
3. Big debt

Question 18

Solution of the 4th Crusade:

Answer 18

1. They invade TWO christians/catholics cities to just pay off their debt to Venice
2. Alexios pays crusaders to invade his own city to calm mutiny; Alexios has no money to pay crusaders
3. Byzantines are also invaded, further stunting them for their demise

Question 19

Reasons why stolen items from Byzantine are good:

Answer 19

1. Items could’ve survived in other cultures like Venice
2. This helps usher in the Rennansace era

Question 20

MAJOR result of the 4th Crusade

Answer 20

The GREAT SCHISM is now unreparable

Question 21

What are Crusades?

Answer 21

Holy Wars

Question 22

When do crusader states perish?

Answer 22

Around the 9th Crusade

Question 23

Impact of the Crusades:

Answer 23

1. 2-6 MILLION people die
2. The Popes are at their pinnacle power
3. Kings are constantly gain power, destroying feudalism
4. Important cities develope (erodes feudal system more)
5. Templars rise to power

Question 24

How do kings gain so much power?

Answer 24

When citizens die and there is no listed heir or relative, the king inherits this deceased person’s land but, the king doesn’t redistribute the land, destroying feudalism

Question 25

How do the Templars get eradicated?

Answer 25

They gain WAY to much power and the king puts secret bounties on them for average citizens to murder these templars starting on a specific day