Transcript The Crusades

The Crusades
A Series of holy wars
launched in 1096 by European
Christians Pope Urban II.
They were an attempt to
recapture the Holy Lands
(Jerusalem, etc.) from the
Muslims.
• Crusaders wore
large crosses on
tunics vowing to
take up the
cross”
– First Crusade (1096-1099) the Pope asked
for a volunteer army to defeat the Seljuk
Turks I Jerusalem
– Crusaders massacred Muslims and Jews
as they captured Jerusalem
– Created the “crusader states”
• 2nd Crusade, Seljuk's defeated
the Christians for areas near
Palestine.
3rd Crusade (1189-1192) Saladin's Muslim
forces had captured Jerusalem in 1187.
• Richard the
Lionhearted of
England fought
to a stalemate.
Saladin
• The Fourth Crusade made a travesty of
the whole idea of crusading…The
Crusaders captured the Christian city of
Constantinople.
these are the land walls of Constantinople
Impact of the Crusades
• They jumpstarted trade throughout the
Mediterranean area and the Middle
East– crusaders brought back fabrics
(silk) spices (pepper) & perfumes.
• Wider world view
• Power of Pope & feudal rulers
eventually declined
• Power of Kings increased
Black Pepper
• Lasting bitterness between Muslims,
Jews, and Christians.
• Weakened the Byzantine Empire
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Shield of Edward the Black Prince:
http://www.geocities.com/scalaska1/bigshield2.html
Tunic: http://www.mwart.com/xq/ASP.productlg/pid.2066/qx/crusader-tunic-with-ropebelt.htm
Map of First Crusade: http://alpha.montclair.edu/~lebelp/Millennium.html
Land Walls of Constantinople, recently restored to appear as they would have in 1204
A.D. http://www.geocities.com/egfrothos/FourthCrusade.html
troubadour: http://www.der-troubadour.de/minnesaenger.htm
Thomas Aquinas: http://www.der-troubadour.de/minnesaenger.htm
Dante’s Inferno, Gluttons: http://www.vampyra.com/demons/glutton.htm
Canterbury Tales: http://www.germanistik.fuberlin.de/lehrangebote/anglistik_ps_ue.html
Black Plague: http://webs.wichita.edu/mschneegurt/biol103/lecture14/lecture14.html
Romanesque: http://art-of-paris.ca/history3.html
Reconquesta: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~izapa/Reconquest.html
Joan of Arc: http://www.hcdb.k12.hi.us/Studentwork/Joan.html
gothic cathedral: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/gothic_arch.html
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Saladin: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sherwoodtimes/page5.htm
Black Pepper from: Salt-n-Peppers Plus.com
Ottoman Empire: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gov46/
men of the city: http://herba.msu.ru/shipunov/e-album/lms.htm
craftsmen:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/trevor.barker/farisles/guilds/armour/m
ail.htm
• Battle of Hastings as depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry, the photo is
from:
• http://www.imh.org/imh/kyhpl2a.html
• Ferdinand and Isabella: http://www.ignatiushistory.info/00133.html