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•Starting Points Map: Europe,1095

•Main Idea / Reading Focus

•Launching the Crusades

•Fighting the Crusades

•Map: The Crusades

•Effects of the Crusades

•Quick Facts: Causes and Effects of the Crusades

The Crusades

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Reading Focus

•Why did the Europeans launch the Crusades?

•What happened during the Crusades?

•What were the effects of the Crusades?

Main Idea

The Crusades, a series of attempts to gain Christian control of the Holy Land, had a profound economic, political, and social impact on the societies involved.

The Crusades

•Jerusalem in control of North African Muslims, Fatimids, late 1000s

•Turkish Muslims took control of Persia, other lands, persecuted Christians visiting region

•Turks attacked Byzantine Empire, destroyed army, 1071

•Emperor turned to Western Europe, Pope Urban II, for help

Muslims Control Holy Land

•European Christians launched series of religious wars, Crusades, in Middle Ages

•Goal to take Jerusalem, Holy Land, away from Muslims

•Jerusalem site of Holy Temple of Jews, also where Jesus crucified, buried, was to come again

•Vital to Christians to control city

Goal of CrusadesLaunching the Crusades

The Council of Clermont

Pope Urban II called church leaders to council in Clermont, France

•Described dangers faced by Byzantines

•Called on Christian warriors to put aside differences, fight against TurksoEffective call to arms

oHundreds of knights, nobles volunteered for Crusade

oSet out to meet foes with slogan “God wills it!”

Sequence

What events led to the call for a Crusade?

Answer(s): Seljuk Turks conquered Holy Land, threatened Byzantines; Byzantine emperor called on pope for assistance

Crusaders left France in 1096 in First Crusade. In all, nine Crusades set out between 1096 and 1291 to claim or protect the Holy Land.

•Crusaders in two groups, peasants and knights

•Unskilled peasants

First Crusade

•Better trained in warfare than peasants, but unprepared for hardship of journey

•Traveled three years

Knights

Fighting the Crusades

Third Crusade

•New leader arose in Muslim world, 1177

•Salah ad-Din, known to Europeans as Saladin

• , took title of sultan

•Set out to take back Crusader states, succeeded, drove European Christians out of Jerusalem

Second Crusade

•Muslims began retaking lands lost in First Crusade

•European leaders called for Second Crusade, launched in 1147

•Second Crusade a failure, took no lands from Muslims

Three Kings•Richard, Philip, Frederick set out from Europe on Third Crusade

•Only King Richard the Lion-Hearted of England fought in Holy Land

Fierce Fighting•Richard, Saladin fought fiercely for control of Holy Land

•Richard won several battles, not able to drive Muslims out of Holy Land

•Richard could not take Jerusalem, had to return to England

Mutual Respect•Richard, Saladin admired each other as military leaders, gentlemen

•Made proposals for peace, including marriage alliance of Richard’s sister, Saladin’s brother; never took place because of religious differences

Third Crusade

Fourth Crusade, 1201 •Jerusalem still in Muslim hands

•Failure for European Crusaders

More Failures•Disorganization, lack of leadership made Fourth Crusade failure

•Five other Crusades followed, none successful

Fourth and Later Crusades

Find the Main Idea

What was the goal of the Crusades?

Answer(s): to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land away from the Muslims who controlled it

Economic Changes•Historic evidence of trade between Muslims, Byzantines, Europeans prior to

Crusades

•Crusades enhanced existing trade

•Returning Crusaders brought more goods, spices, textiles, to Europe

• Increase in trade added to changing European economy during Middle Ages

•Crusades led to deaths of many knights, nobles

•Lands left vulnerable

•Other ambitious nobles took control of unoccupied lands

•Nobles then had more power, influence in Europe

Political Changes

•Some Europeans respected other cultures, others intolerant

•Many viewed non-Christians as enemies, persecuted Jews

•Holy Land Jews saw Crusaders as cruel invaders

•Relations strained for centuries

Social Changes

Effects of the Crusades

Draw Conclusions

Why did people’s attitudes change after the Crusades?

Answer(s): Europeans became more intolerant and saw Jews and Muslims as enemies; Jews and Muslims saw the Crusaders as enemies

Crusade Quiz

•1. What were the Crusades?(2pt)•2. Name the two sides fighting. What were they fighting

over? (4pts)•3.Who originally called for the Crusades?(2pts)•4. Name three obstacles the Europeans would have had

to overcome during the crusades. (6pts)•5. What was the end result for the Europeans?(2pts)•6. Explain the effects the Crusades had on Europe’s

political and social structure. (At least 2 political effects & at least 2 social effects)(8pts)

•7. Explain the effects the Crusades had on both Middle Eastern and European societies.(4pts)

•Total (28pts)