General Middle Ages
Religion
The Crusades
Church Hierarchy
Events/Facts
100
The most influential establishment during Medieval Europe.

What is the Catholic Church

100

The main religion in Medieval Europe

Christianity 


100

The two beliefs directly involved in battle during the crusades.

What is Christianity and Islam

100
The everyday people who attend the church are known as?

The laity

100

The name of the pope who called the first Crusade.

Who is Pope Urban II

200

The main economic, political, and social system of the Middle Ages:

Feudalism

200

The religion of the Byzantine Empire.

What is Eastern Orthodox

200

The reason why so many people joined in on all of the crusades.

What is their belief in their religion.

200

Who elects the next pope?

The Cardinals

200

The Pope who Crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor.

What is Pope Leo III

300

The three religions that were impacted from the crusades.

What are Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam.

300

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.

300

Where is the holy land?

Modern day Israel/Palestine (Jerusalem)

300

To banish someone from the religion or church.

Excommunicate

300

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.

400

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.

400

The two branches of Christianity that separated the Roman Empire.

What are Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic.

400

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.

400

Who is the third rank in the hierarchy of the church?

Archbishop

400

What area did the Seljuk Turks take in 1071?

Palestine

500

The founder of the Islamic faith.

Muhammad

500

What was the importance of Jerusalem to Christians?

It was the place of Jesus' death and resurrection according to Christian belief.


500

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.

500

The three main powers of the pope.

Excommunicate, Interdict, Inquisition

500

What happened in the Byzantine Empire during the fourth crusade.

The fall of Constantinople.