The Crusades
Directions: Use 3-5 minutes to double check this subject’s Power School for your class grade and work listings verifying that all work is caught up. Read and heed embedded messages. Next, research your part of the following topics and figure out answers to the questions. Write your questions and detailed answers on lined paper or your notebook paper. These questions and related answers are required to be handed in, once the class discussion is completed. You are expected to use the time completely, be through and become knowledgeable. Write down any puzzles you have related to the material on your paper and bring them up during the class discussion. Warning: If you are found to be using your research time for other things, it will hurt your learning and grade. If you think or claim to be done, you are not! Once your assigned part is ready, then help others on your team or study the test resources from Mr. Spitzer’s web page for the upcoming test. No games, non-topic talk or other activities allowed during research time. The class will research as much as time allows before team sharing and whole class discussion. Since there is always more to learn, Mr. Spitzer encourages you to look into this topic more on your own time. Your class work grade includes: 1. Entire use of time while researching. 2. Answer questions & pay attention during team sharing. 3. Paying attention & participate during class discussion. 4. Turning in your readable questions & notes. Team members who do not do their share, provide hasty sloppy answers, disrupt others and use time ineffectively in the four grade aspects will be removed from the team and required to write out and turn in all answers on their own for the grade.
Topics to Research
Muslim threat to in the 1000s to Byzantine Empire
Pope Urban II and his call for Crusade plus promises to crusaders
Crusader
Peasant Crusade
1st Crusade
2nd Crusade
3rd Crusade
4th Crusade
Restoration of Byzantine Empire
Crusader States
Trade and the Crusades
Questions to be able to discuss
1. What was the main religious reason for the crusades?
2. When and how did Jerusalem fall to Muslim rule?
3. What was the threat to the Byzantine Empire by Muslims?
4. Detail Pope Urban’s 1095 call for crusade and what he promised the crusaders.
5. What does the term crusader mean?
6. Describe the peasant crusade. What did they do in Constantinople in 1096? What happened to the peasant crusaders?
7. Describe the leaders and events of the 1st Crusade. Why did they succeed?
8. Describe the leaders and events of the 2nd Crusade.
9. Describe the leaders and events of the 3rd Crusade.
10. Describe the leaders and events of the 4th Crusade.
11. How was the Byzantine Empire restored in 1261?
12. List and describe each Crusader state, it’s location and eventual destruction.
13. How was trade encouraged by these Crusades? What was traded?
14. How were the Crusades historically important?