What Were the Crusades and What Are the Different Possible Reasons for Why the Crusades Occurred

NAME________________

PERIOD_____

CRUSADES

WEB & MAP HOMEWORK

1. What were the crusades and what are the different possible reasons for why the crusades occurred?

2. Why were there different destinations for the various crusades?

3. What was happening in Europe that made military campaigns like the crusades possible?

4. Which Pope called for the First Crusade?

5. What are the 3 primary reasons usually given for the call for the First Crusade?

6. Why could it be said that the 4th Crusade was not really a crusade to recover the Holy Land?

7. Who was the primary Muslim military commander during the First Crusade?

8. What were the Crusader States?

9. What was the first crusader state?

10. Why was the Third Crusade called the Kings’ Crusade?

11. What happened to Frederick Barbarossa on his crusade?

12. Which crusade actually recaptured Jerusalem?

13. Which crusades did not start with the Holy Land as their destination?

14. What was the Albigensian Crusade?

15. What is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?

16. What is “penitential warfare”?

17. What was the Schism of 1054 and what caused it?

18. What were the primary results of the Crusades for European culture?

Useful Websites

Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crus/hd_crus.htm#/07/World-Map

Very good for questions –

http://www.jesuschristsavior.net/Crusades.html

http://www2.div.ed.ac.uk/courses/Animated_Maps/Divinity2/crusadesall.html

http://crusades-medieval.blogspot.com/2010/04/map-of-routes-of-first-crusade.html

Very good for map work

http://crusades-medieval.blogspot.com/2010/04/map-of-routes-of-first-crusade.html

http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/3100/3162/3162z.htm

http://www2.div.ed.ac.uk/courses/Animated_Maps/Divinity2/crusadesall.html

Locate and color:

Map 1

England, France, Holy Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Leon, Castile, Portugal, Aragon

Locate and color:

Map 2

Crete, Cyprus, Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica, Fatimid Caliphate, Almoravid Caliphate, Seljuk Empire

Locate:

Map 3

London, Paris, Marseilles, Genoa, Venice, Rome, Naples, Mainz, Regensburg, Constantinople, Edessa, Antioch, Tyre, Nicaea, Jerusalem

Locate and color:

Map 4

Route of:

1st Crusade

2nd Crusade

4th Crusade

7th Crusade

8th Crusade

Map 1

Map 2

Map 3

Map