The Crusades
What were the Crusades?
A series of military campaigns to establish Christian control over the Holy Land.
What is the name that historians use for the Bubonic Plague in present day?
The Black Death.
Who won the right to be able to appoint bishops?
The Pope.
What was the Spanish Inquisition?
A series of investigations to find and judge heretics.
What was the Reconquista?
The reclaiming of Spain from the Muslims.
What was the goal of the First Crusade?
To reclaim the Holy Land.
What was the first sign of the Bubonic Plague?
Large buboes appearing around the body.
What did Pope Gregory VII do to Emperor Henry IV in response to the king trying to remove the Pope from his position?
He excommunicated him from the Church.
Who were the highly prosecuted groups during the Spanish Inquisition?
Jews and Muslims.
What were the group of Muslims in Spain called?
The Moors.
What land did the crusaders unintentionally raid in the Fourth Crusade?
Constantinople.
Who were the most common scapegoats for the plague at the time?
The Jewish People.
What agreement gave the Church the sole authority to appoint bishops, and much more?
The Concordat of Worms.
Who were the King and Queen that started the Spanish Inquisition?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
After the Reconquista, what was the most prominent religion in Spain?
Christianity.
Who led the First Crusade?
Peter the Hermit.
Approximately How much of Europe's population at the time was wiped out from the Bubonic Plague?
1/3
What was the importance of bishops that made them so desirable to the Pope and King to be able to appoint?
Bishops could support their policies and they controlled much land and wealth.
What were the King and Queens' goal for the Spanish Inquisition?
To unite the religions of the people of Spain.
Science and Medicine.
What provoked the Third Crusade?
The fall of Jerusalem.
Where did the Bubonic Plague begin?
Central Asia.
What did Henry IV do that caused the Pope to appoint a rival bishop?
He ignored the rules that the Pope had set.
How did this affect the population of Spain?
Their population lowered a lot.
What was the most popular city in Spain?
Cordoba.