Jews in the Middle Ages
Christians in the Middle Ages
Ant-Judaism
The Crusades
Blood Libels and the Desecration of the Host
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What were the years that covered Judaism in the Middle Ages?
Approximately 500 CE to 1750 CE
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Who did they believe Jesus was?
The Messiah
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Between what centuries did Anti-Judaism mostly have an affect on the Jews?
11th century to the 15th century.
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When was the first Crusade, and who was it led by?
1095 C.E and was led by Pope Urban II.
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What year did the Blood libels start?
11th century C.E
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What was the main occupation as a working class Jew?
Merchants
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What did they think Jesus died for?
All their sins.
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What started happening to the Christian population?
It started to grow with the Catholic Church.
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About how many people followed Pope Urban II to Constantinople?
100,000 people
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What were the Blood libels?
People thought that the Jews would kidnap Cristian boy, kill him and use his body in ritual practices.
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What did Jews believe about working and the purpose of life?
They believed that working was not the purpose of life; the meaning of life was to study the Torah
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What was the main occupation for Christians?
Blacksmiths, merchants, and pastures.
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What did Christians believe the Jews did to Jesus.
The Christians thought that the Jews killed Jesus.
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About how many Jews were killed in the first Crusade?
800 Jews were killed.
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What was the Desecration of the Host?
The desecration of the host started when the Christians had the doctrine of the host where they would drink wine representing Jesus's blood and eat bread representing his flesh, this is called transubstantiation.
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How were Jews assimilated with society during the years 500 CE to 800 CE.
Jews had their own choice of what to be in in the community.
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Why was Jesus resurrected?
For the saviour of the Christians.
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What did all Jews start to become for all bad things that happen.
A scapegoat
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What did Pope Urban II tell people to get them to follow him?
That they were damned when you were borned and if you fight in the Crusades your sins will be forgiven and you could go to heaven.
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Where and how did the rumor of the Blood Libels start?
The rumor started in Norwich England, in the year 1144 when a christian boy was found dead in the wood with stab wounds.
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What year did Rambam tell the Jews to associate themselves with other occupations but not to abandon the Torah?
Approximately 1171 C.E.
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How many main apostles did Jesus have, list five?
12 apostles James the Greater, Matthew, Peter, Phillip, and Simon.
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List two of the three main principles that were created to discourage Jews from practicing their religion? If you can name all three you get +100.
1. First, the Catholic Church wanted to lower the Jews to the status of an outcast. 2. Second, they didn’t let them have any slaves or nurses to help them. 3. Third, the King and the Catholic priest wanted to throw the Jews off the social hierarchy because the Jews didn’t want to accept Jesus into their lives.
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What were the Crusades? (A full answer)
The Crusades were military and religious raids authorized by the Roman Catholic Church to kill or convert all targeted people who weren’t Catholic, but they ended up killing Catholics too accidentally. There were a total of 9 crusades from 1095 C.E - 1272 C.E
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What did Christians believe the Jews did to "rekill" Jesus?
Rumors went around that Jews were stealing the bread and wine for the Desecration of the Host and they were throwing it out to "rekill" Jesus because the Christians believed that the bread and wine was Jesus body and blood.
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