Europe
The First Crusade
Geography
The Holy Land
Islam
100
The city where the Pope lives.
What is Rome?
100
The group of Muslims whose control of Jerusalem led to the start of the First Crusade.
Who were the Seljuk Turks?
100
The capital of France.
What is Paris?
100
The actual name of the Holy Land.
What is Palestine?
100
A follower of Islam, the word literally means "one who surrenders to God."
What is a Muslim?
200
He was left in charge of England when his brother, Richard, left for the Third Crusade.
Who is Prince John?
200
He was the first Pope who called for a Great Pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Who was Pope Urban II
200
This empire was made up of most of the German-speaking countries of Europe.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
200
This is the name of an Islamic place of worship.
What is a mosque?
200
The founder of Islam.
Who was Muhammad?
300
The king of France who went to the Holy Land as part of the Third Crusade.
Who is Philip II?
300
His passionate preaching convinced 40,000 of the poorest people of Europe to join him in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Who was Peter the Hermit?
300
The city where Islam was founded.
What is Mecca?
300
The city where Jesus Christ was crucified.
What is Jerusalem?
300
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
400
The French city where Pope Urban II gave his famous sermon, that led to the creation of the First Crusade.
What is Clermont?
400
The name given to the army of nobles and knights who set off for the Holy Land during the First Crusade.
What is the Prince's Crusade?
400
The capital of England.
What is London?
400
One of the kings of Jerusalem, he was known as the "Leper King"?
Who was Baldwin IV?
400
He was the Sultan of Egypt who reconquered Jerusalem in the name of Islam.
Who is Saladin?
500
The nickname given to king Richard I of England.
What is the "Lion Heart"?
500
The Byzantine emperor who asked Europe for help regain territory lost to the Muslims.
Who was Alexius I?
500
The current capital of Iraq, this city was built by the Abbasid dynasty during the Middle Ages.
What is Baghdad?
500
French for "overseas" this is the name given to the various Crusader states that the Christians set up in the Holy Land.
What is Outremer?
500
Invented by a muslim mathematician, it is a way to solve equations with unknown numbers in them.
What is algebra?
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