4.2 The Crusades - Q -

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AGE 4: The Time of cities and states

4.2 The Crusades

Practise Questions

1. The importance of Jerusalem. Drag the symbols and texts to the correct picture

Holy Sepulcher

Wailing Wall

Dome of the Rock

Orthodox Church

Catholic Church

Both

2. Do the drag & drop

Greek

Patriarch

Pope

Christians

Latin

Constantinople

Rome

3. Look at source 4.2.4. As on most other maps in the Middle Ages, Jerusalem is located in the middle of the map. What does this tell you about the importance of Jerusalem?

4. In this section a number of reasons are mentioned for Pope Urban II to organise the Crusades.
What are these reasons mentioned?

5. Which of these reasons was the direct cause for him to organise the Crusades? Explain your answer.

6. Try to remember what you know from lesson 3.2 about the spread of Islam.

a. How did the first Muslims who spread their religion treat the Christians?

6b. How did the Seljuqs treat the Christians according to Pope Urban II?

7. How did Pope Urban II motivate people to join the Crusades in source 4.2.7?

8. People in Europe responded to Urban’s speech by shouting ‘God wills it!’
Do you think that Muslims would have agreed to this?

9. Besides knights and people of the Church, many common men and women joined the Crusades as well. How could they have been motivated by Pope Urban’s speech (source 4.2.7)?

10. Why were Jews seen as the enemies of Christians during the Crusades?

11. The six reasons to join a crusade are numbered in the text. Drag the numbers to the correct picture. (1 picture can be linked to two numbers)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

12. A historian states that: “Although the Holy Land was not conquered, the Crusades were a success in the long run”.
People at the time might think differently about this statement, depending on their position in society. Argue for each of the following people, if they would agree with the historian:

A. the pope

12. A historian states that: “Although the Holy Land was not conquered, the Crusades were a success in the long run”.
People at the time might think differently about this statement, depending on their position in society. Argue for each of the following people, if they would agree with the historian:

B. a merchant in Venice

12. A historian states that: “Although the Holy Land was not conquered, the Crusades were a success in the long run”.
People at the time might think differently about this statement, depending on their position in society. Argue for each of the following people, if they would agree with the historian:

C. a Jew in Aachen, Germany

12. A historian states that: “Although the Holy Land was not conquered, the Crusades were a success in the long run”.
People at the time might think differently about this statement, depending on their position in society. Argue for each of the following people, if they would agree with the historian:

D. a doctor in Rome

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