Pope Urban II

What is Pope Urban II best remembered for?

• Making a speech to unify Christians in Western Europe to launch the Crusades (a holy war) against Muslims

• Making a speech to unify Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians

• Making a speech to end violence against Jews in Western Europe

• Making a speech calling the King of England to abdicate

To give his speech, Pope Urban II convoked a great church council in 1095 in this French city.

• City of Avignon

• City of Clermont

• City of Paris

• City of Marseille

Pope Urban II protested the fact that which people were defiling Christian holy places and harassing Christian pilgrims in the Middle East?

• Ottoman Turks

• Abbasid Arabs

• Seljuk Turks

• Persians

In order to call people to arms, Pope Urban II appealed to people's Christian religion, need for salvation, and what else?

• He pointed out that the Holy Land was very wealthy and ripe for the taking

• He pointed out that the summers were nicer

"Deus le volt!" means what in Latin? (The battle cry of the Crusaders)

• God wants it!

• God wills it!

• God demands it!

• God will bless it!

Over the next hundreds of years, Christian armies would sporadically invade and battle with Muslims over Muslim-held territory. How many major Crusades were there?

• Only 3

• At least 8 and many smaller ones

• 5, yeah definitely 5

• 13 (ooh unlucky number)

The Crusades's main impact on world history is what??

• It gave Jerusalem to the Christians, and it remained a Christian kingdom forever.

• It reduced the Muslim population in half because Christian Crusaders slaughtered them in the thousands.

• It brought Western Europe in closer contact with the Byzantine and Islamic civilizations which brought about advancements in technology and society paving the way for the Renaissance.

• It led to the cure for scurvy since Crusaders learned advanced medicine from Muslim doctors.

Pope Urban II was the only person in Western Europe at the time who could have unified all the Christians to fight a war in a foreign land because he was a religious leader-- not a political leader.

• True

• False

What word best describes Pope Urban II?

• Charismatic

• Uneducated

• Weak

• Indecisive