Key Terms-The Crusades

Prejudice, hostility, violence or discrimination against the Jews

• anti-Semitism
• Jewphobia
• pro-Semitism
• anti-Islamism
• Propaganda

Code of ideals demanding that a knight aid the poor, defend the weak and fight bravely for his masters: earthly lord, heavenly lord and chosen lady

• Noble decree
• Valor code
• Knighthood
• Chivalry
• Jihad

Aggressive movement for the advancement of an idea or cause

• Crusade

• Pilgrimage

• Transgression

• Support
• Truce

Christian military expedition by Europeans to reclaim Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the control of the Muslim Turks

• Crusade

• Inquisition
• Jihad
• Pilgrimage

• Tour

Arabic word literally meaning “the struggle for the faith;” today, often translated as “holy war”

• Zakat

• Hajj

• Jihad

• Saladin

• Skirmish

To quell; to put restrictions and limits; to make peaceful

• Pacify

• Truce

• Jihad

• Siege

• Tussle

Strong belief in a religion that is shown in the way someone lives, often through devotion to God and devout fulfillment of religious obligations and practices

• Sacrifice
• Faith

• Piety
• Ritualism

• Ceremonial

Journey made to a sacred or holy place as an act of religious devotion

• Pilgrimage

• Jihad

• Nirvana

• Samsara

• Ordination

Ideas, opinions or claims spread deliberately to further one’s cause or damage the opposing side; one-sided information

• Propaganda

• Contemporary

• Credibility

• Chronology

• Objectivity

Surrounding, blockading & attacking a fortified place by an army attempting to capture it

• blockade
• defense
• siege
• attack
• armistice