Crusades & Middle Ages Review

Who fought each other in the Crusades?

• The Eastern and Western Roman Empires
• The Romans and the Greeks
• The Europeans and the Egyptians
• The Europeans and the Arabs

True of False: the majority of the Crusades were very successful in capturing the Holy Land.

• True
• False

What religious leader from the Catholic Church helped to organize the First Crusade?

• The Bishop of Constantinople
• Stephen Harding
• The Pope
• Saint Benedict

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What was the overall purpose of the Christians in the Crusades?

• to gain control of Jerusalem
• to open a trade route to China
• to learn about Muslim innovations
• to capture the holy land from the Jews

Which statement best describes the result of the Crusades?

• Europeans maintained a lasting control over much of the Middle East

• Islamic influence dominated Europe

• Europeans developed tolerance of Non-Christian religions

• trade between Europe and the Middle East was expanded

The City of Jerusalem is important to what three major religions?

• Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam
• Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
• Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism
• Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity

Feudalism

• a social system in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return

• a country whose ruler is a king or queen

• of, or relating to the Middle Ages: of, or relating to the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church

Monarchy

• a large area of land that was ruled over by a lord in medieval times: a feudal estate

• a country that is ruled by a monarch (such as a king or queen)

• of, or relating to, or belonging to the highest social class: of, or relating to, or belonging to the nobility

• a member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner

Europe was known as the Dark Ages because

• there was decline in trade, education,and culture

• Rome did not pay its electric bill

• there was a growth of war

• emperors were not very smart