People
By 1453 the Islamic Empire was dominated by another group of Turks known as this.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
In 1453, the Ottoman Turks succeeded in capturing this major city.
What is Constantinople?
A journey undertaken for a religious purpose.
What is a pilgrimage?
These two religious groups fought each other for the Holy Land.
Who are the Christians and the Muslims?
Muslims had captured Jerusalem and their control of the city posed a threat these people.
Who are Christians (and Jews)?
This person urged Christians to free the shrines of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
Who was Pope Urban II?
The holy city of Jewish and Christian people.
What is Jerusalem?
To change from one belief or religion to another.
What is convert?
Pope Urban II asked these people to help win back the holy land where Jesus had once lived.
Who are (all) Christians?
Muslims were continuing to to this as they took control of important Christian territories.
What is expand?
The Byzantine Emperor who asked the pope for help.
Who was Alexius I?
The continent that Christians who fought in The Crusades were from.
What is Europe?
The act of taking control of land and its people by force.
What is conquest?
Alexius I asked Pope Urban to help Christians being attacked by this group.
Who are Muslim (Seljuk) Turks?
Pope Urban II inspired many Christians to fight in a holy war to reclaim Jerusalem by doing this.
What is giving a speech?
The brave and heroic king of England who led the Christians in the Third Crusade.
Who was Richard the Lionhearted?
The center of the Catholic Church, from which Pope Urban II called for the Crusades.
What is Rome?
A person who does not accept or follow the ideas of a particular religion.
What is a heretic?
Amount of years The Crusades lasted. (an estimate within 25 years is acceptable)
What is 177 years (about 200 years)
The word "crusade" comes from the Latin word "crux" meaning this.
What is "cross"?
The ruler of Egypt and Syria who led the Muslims in the Third Crusade.
Who was Saladin?
This empire is where members of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church were located.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Related to religion; holy.
What is sacred?
At the time of the Crusades, the Holy Land had been under Muslim control for this long.
What is nearly four hundred years?
The First Crusade occured in this year.
What is 1096?