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The Crusades Study Guide
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1.
What were the Crusades and what is the Holy Land?
2.
Explain the causes of the Crusades.
3.
What was Pope Urban’s call to Christians?
4.
Where did Crusaders go to prepare for the Crusades?
5.
What did Crusaders sew onto their uniforms? What was their
battle cry?
6.
Why did people go to fight in the Crusades?
7.
In the First Crusades, many of the Crusaders were peasants,
who did they attack along the way and why?
8.
What happened to many of the peasant Crusaders early on?
9.
How did the trained crusaders fare?
10.
After taking Jerusalem, what did the first Europeans do?
11.
What happened in the 2nd and 3rd Crusades? Who was King
Richard I? Who was Saladin?
12.
What happened in the Fourth Crusade?
13.
What brought about the end of the Crusades?
14.
How did the Crusades Change Europe – as to trade, relations
with other groups such as Jews, Byzantines easterners and
Muslims?