Transcript Jerusalem: holy Christian city

TOPIC:
Chapter 6,
Week 5
Sub topic #1 (left side of paper)
What were the Crusades?
Notes (right side of paper)
•A holy war between Christians and Muslims,
fought in the Middle East
•Holy War: war fought over religion
•The Muslims had invaded the Byzantine empire
and taken over Jerusalem: holy Christian city
•Knights from all over Europe were asked to
leave their home and travel to fight
Sub topic #1 (left side of paper)
What were the Crusades?
Notes (right side of paper)
•First Crusade: to fight for a cause
European Christians captured
Jerusalem and took it from the
Muslims.
•3 more major crusades, all were failures for the
Christians
•Over time the Muslims won back all of the land
they lost during the first crusade
•Total the crusades lasted 1098-1291
Sub topic #2 (left side of paper)
How did the Crusades affect Europe?
Notes (right side of paper)
•Increased trade between Europe and the
Middle Ages
-supplies needed to be brought
back and forth between the places
•It ended feudalism
-all of the knights had to leave to
fight in the Middle East!
Sub topic #3 (left side of paper)
What legal ideas were started in the Middle Ages?
Notes (right side of paper)
•Henry II set up common law: laws that are
the same everywhere in the country
•He also set up trials by juries
•Sir Thomas Aquinas came up with the idea
of natural law: people are born with certain
rights that can’t be taken
•Habeas corpus
•Parliament/representative government
Sub topic #4 (left side of paper)
Why was the Magna Carta important to
history?
Notes (right side of paper)
•King John: was a very bad king of
England.
•The people wanted to have more rights.
They wrote the Magna Carta: (Great
Charter) that said what rights they had and
took rights from the king
•King John was forced to sign it
Sub topic #4 (left side of paper)
Why was the Magna Carta important to
history?
Notes (right side of paper)
•It was important in history because it was
one of the first times in history that people
declared they should have rights and the
government should have less power
Sub topic #4 (left side of paper)
Other Vocab
Notes (right side of paper)
•empirical: derived from or guided by
experience or experiment
•evoke: to call up or produce