Impact of Crusades

Impact of Crusades

What did they learn?

'Tak kenal maka tak cinta'

- a Malay proverb -

If you don't know them, you don't love them...

If you don't know them, you don't love them

• Christians from northern European countries had not had much contacts with the Islamic world.

• So they had very little respects towards the Muslims. They thought Muslims were uncivilised.

In times of peace between fighting,

the two sides (Christians and Muslims) mixed

Christians learned a lot from the Islamic world:

• New Products

• Knowledge

• Technologies

• Warfare

New Products

• Foods: Lemons, melons, apricots, sugar, syrup, spices, cinnamon & nutmeg

• Dresses: Cotton, silk & slippers

• Communication: Pigeons to carry messages

Multiple Select

What are the new products Crusaders brought back to their home countries?

Select your answers

• sugar, syrup

• lemons, melons apricot

• salt, flour

• slippers, cotton, silk

• spices

Open Ended

Which product do you still use today influenced from the Islamic world?

(as learned by the Crusaders)

Knowledge

• Numbers: European learned using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) to replace Roman numerals (I, II, III, IV)

• Learned Chess from the Muslims

• Lost books from Ancient Greek was translated by Muslims

• Knowledge of diseases and medical from Muslims

Poll

Which of these blow your mind?

• The numbers we use today originated from Hindu-Arabic numeric system!

• European learned chess from the Muslims!

• Muslims still have the lost knowledge from Ancient Greek!

• Muslims were really advanced in science at that time!

• None, I already knew all of them

Technology

• Muslims took education seriously - made advances in science and technology

• Mirrors, magnifying glass, astronomy

• Sailing technologies and surgical tools

• More accurate maps and compasses

Multiple Select

Technologies the European learned from the Muslims

• Sailing, maps and navigation

• Roads and drainage system

• Mirrors, magnifying glasses

• Tools to measure distance between stars

• Medicine and surgical

Warfare

• The use of archers in armies

• European copied Muslim castle designs

• Trebuchet (giant catapult) to destroy castle

Multiple Choice

What do you use a trebuchet for?

• to injure a soldier

• to destroy a castle

• to destroy crops

• to send a message