The idea of a crusade developed over the 11th century as an outcome of increased contact with this European region.
What is the Iberian Peninsula or Spain?
The two kings who led the Second Crusade.
Who are Conrad III of Germany and Louis VII of France?
This leader conquered Jerusalem in 1187.
Who was Saladin?
These people financed the Fourth Crusade.
Who are Venetian merchants?
As European leaders turned back to their own continent and its affairs, the crusading ideology was turned against these sorts of groups.
Who are European heretical sects?
According to Pope Urban II, this was promised to all who answered the called to crusade.
What is a remission of sins?
The Second Crusade was intended to reconquer this city.
What is Edessa?
This was how Frederick Barbarossa's crusade ended.
What is death by accidental drowning?
Ultimately, the Fourth Crusade was directed against this city rather than Muslim-held Jerusalem
What is Constantinople?
The name for the efforts made by northern Christian kingdoms to drive the Muslims out of Spain.
What was Reconquista?
This is where Pope Urban II delivered the sermon calling for a crusade to the Holy Land.
What is Clermont, France?
This pope initiated the Second Crusade by asking the king of France to lead a crusade.
Who is Pope Eugenius III?
Most of the history of the Third Crusade is the long battle between Saladin and this man, who was a bit of a pompous windbag, but enhanced his image as a chivalrous leader by crusading.
Who was Richard the Lionhearted?
This person initiated the Fourth Crusade
Who is Pope Innocent III
This medieval social system declined after the Crusades.
What is Feudalism?
What year was the first crusade called?
what is 1095 A.D.
In each crusade, this region suffered from looting European crusaders.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
A few coastal towns and the right to travel to Jerusalem safely we the terms of the peace treaty ending the Crusade in this year.
What was 1192?
In exchange for financing, Venetian merchants asked the crusaders to detour to this city and attack it because it was a rival to Venice.
What is Zara?
Two ways that Crusades changed European views of the near and middle east.
What is by increasing toleration and increasing trade?
How many years did the first crusade last?
4 years: 1095-1099
This preacher and mystic was an outspoken proponent of the Second Crusade.
Who was Bernard of Clairvaux?
These are the two main branches of Islam
What are Sunni and Shi'ite?
Crusaders looted this church during the Fourth Crusade.
What is Hagia Sophia?
Another group that suffered at the hands of crusaders were communities of this religious minority in central and Eastern Europe.
Who are the Jews?