Causes
This city is holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims.
What is Jerusalem?
THIS increased with more interactions between the Western and Eastern worlds.
What is trade?
Yersinia pestis.
What is the bacteria that causes the Black Plague?
Cultural diffusion.
What is the sharing of culture across people and place due to interaction?
Why do historians study past events using multiple perspectives? (Not to be answered in the form of a question)
Examining different perspectives gives a more complete picture of historical circumstances.
The control of this area by Muslim groups prompted the Crusades.
What is the Holy Land/Levant/Jerusalem?
How the Christian and Muslim worlds looked at each other for a long time following the Crusades.
What is with distrust and even hated?
The Black Plague spread to Europe due to this.
What is trade between Europeans and Asians?
What is the East-West/ Great Schism?
Historical context.
What is the background to an event or what led up to an event?
The Crusades.
What were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both?
This religious leader became more powerful after the Crusades.
Who is the Pope?
This is one reason the plague traveled to Europe from Asia/China.
How did the Mongols protect Silk Road trade routes?
Nomad.
Purpose
Pope Urban II promised this incentive for Christian soldiers fighting on Crusade.
What is the forgiveness of sins?
This political leader became more powerful after the Crusades.
Who are kings?
Infection spread to humans from fleas that travel on rats. Killed millions of Europeans during the Middle Ages.
What was the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
Islam.
What is a religion that originates in the Middle East and whose main religious figure is the Prophet Mohommed?
Point of view.
What is the author's opinion?
Pope Urban II.
Who gave a speech at Council of Clermont, 1095, in which he describes Muslim attacks on Christians in Holy Land and encouraged Christians to go on Crusade to free Holy Land from Muslim control?
Saladin and Richard the Lionheart.
Who were two legendary leaders in the Crusades from Europe and the Middle East?
The process of getting or transmiting the Black Plague.
What is bacteria in fleas who travel via rats and then the fleas bite humans AND/OR coughing/sneezing on other people?
Mr. Geddies' favorite book and movie series.
What is Lord of the Rings?
Audience.
How does an author's audience affect how something is written?