Crusades

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

• Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam

• Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism

• Islam, Christianity, and Judaism

Why did people join in fighting in the Crusades?

• Knights liked to fight and fighting in the Crusades was not a sin.

• People could keep what they plundered.

• They thought it would help them get into heaven.

• All of these answers

• They wanted to retake the Holy Land from Muslims.

The crusaders were from?

• throughout Western Europe

• The Byzantine Empire

• The Holy Land

• Eurasia

A pilgrimage is....

• a journey to a sacred place

• the government of the Roman Catholic Church

• a series of actions tending toward a particular end

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

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

The crusades were wars between Christians and 

• Hindus
• Buddhists
• Muslims
• Catholics

The goal of the Crusades was to reclaim

• Jerusalem and Constantinople
• Palestine
• Syria
• Persia

What were the Crusades? 

• A series of wars between the Romans and Germanic Tribes
• A series of wars between the Muslim tribes on the Arabian Penisula
•  A series of religious wars in the middle ages. 

This city was on a crossroads between Europe and the Middle East.

• Cairo
• Constantinople
• Paris
• Moscow

What was the original goal of the Crusades?

• To make sure that kings no longer ruled over peasants.

• To recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.

• To end Feudalism

• To open new trade routes to the East.