General Middle Ages
What is the Catholic Church
The main religion in Medieval Europe
Christianity
The two beliefs directly involved in battle during the crusades.
What is Christianity and Islam
The laity
The name of the pope who called the first Crusade.
Who is Pope Urban II
The main economic, political, and social system of the Middle Ages:
Feudalism
The religion of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Eastern Orthodox
The reason why so many people joined in on all of the crusades.
What is their belief in their religion.
Who elects the next pope?
The Cardinals
The Pope who Crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor.
What is Pope Leo III
The three religions that were impacted from the crusades.
What are Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam.
Who had more power in Medieval Europe the pope or king, and why?
What is the Pope, because he is at the top of the hierarchy of christianity.
Where is the holy land?
Modern day Israel/Palestine (Jerusalem)
To banish someone from the religion or church.
Excommunicate
The three kings/emperor that made up the Kings' Crusade, and where they came from.
What are Emperor Fredrick I Barbarossa from the Holy Roman Empire, King Richard I from England, King Philip II from France.
What is Cultural Diffusion, and how can it be applied to the Crusades
What is the spread of culture or beliefs to another area, and the increase of trade during this time.
The two branches of Christianity that separated the Roman Empire.
What are Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic.
What two crusades could be viewed as "successful" for the Christians? (Name the outcome of each successful crusade).
First Crusade: they gain the holy lands and permanent Crusader settlements in four cities one being Jerusalem.
Third Crusade: they were able to form a peace treaty that let Christians have pilgrimages to Jerusalem and other holy sites.
Who is the third rank in the hierarchy of the church?
Archbishop
What area did the Seljuk Turks take in 1071?
Palestine
The founder of the Islamic faith.
Muhammad
What was the importance of Jerusalem to Christians?
It was the place of Jesus' death and resurrection according to Christian belief.
What were two reasons the First Crusade started?
Seljuk forces attacked the Byzantine Empire and they asked the pope for help.
Seljuks made Christian pilgrimages to the holy land almost impossible.
Wealthy European merchants saw the personal benefits of wars.
The three main powers of the pope.
Excommunicate, Interdict, Inquisition
What happened in the Byzantine Empire during the fourth crusade.
The fall of Constantinople.