The Crusades

The Crusades

Open Ended

What do you know about the Crusades?

Multiple Choice

Roman Catholics (most Christians at the time) controlled most of what continent?

• Europe

• Asia

• Africa

Multiple Choice

Muslims controlled land in which areas?

• Europe and northern Africa.

• Only Europe

• Only northern Africa

Crusades Begin

• 1095, the leader of the Byzantine Empire felt that the city of Constantinople was under attack by Muslim Turks.

• Byzantine Emperor asks the Pope Urban II for help

• Urban II called for a crusade against the Muslim Turks

• This image is the Council of Claremont where the pope called for the Crusades to begin

Who are the Crusaders?

• European Christians

• Many nobles, knights and peasants respond to the call and leave in 1096 for Constantinople

Multiple Choice

What major empire asked the Pope for help?

• The Seljuk Turks

• The Byzantine Empire

Who are the Crusaders fighting?

• Sunnis- party of tradition. and Shi'ites - party of Ali - first caliphate after Muhammad's death

• Two groups of Muslims, the Sunni Seljuk Turks and Shi'ite Caliphate were fighting each other.

• In 1096, Christians were kicked out of the city of Jerusalem by the Shi'ite Famid Caliphate

Multiple Choice

The European Christians were fighting a very united Muslim group.

• True

• False

Siege of Jerusalem

• 1096 - 1099 several battles fought between Crusaders and Turkish (Muslim) forces

• 1099 - most crusading armies arrive at Jerusalem

• July 15 - broke through the city walls

• 100,000 casualties (deaths + injuries)

Different Perspectives

• Christians believed they were fighting in the name of Jesus to take back the place of his birth from non-believers.

• Muslims believed that they were defending land that was theirs. They thought Christians were brutal invaders.

Multiple Choice

Both Christians and Muslims had the same understanding of why they were fighting each other.

• True

• False