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Warm Up:. Analyze the relationship between new technology, population growth and the increase of trade in Western Europe from 1000-1200. IV. The Crusades. Crusades - a series of religiously inspired military campaigns against Muslims that dominated the politics of Europe from 1095-1204.
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Warm Up: Analyze the relationship between new technology, population growth and the increase of trade in Western Europe from 1000-1200
IV. The Crusades Crusades- a series of religiously inspired military campaigns against Muslims that dominated the politics of Europe from 1095-1204
IV. The Crusades • The Roots of the Crusades • Truce of God • Movement to limit fighting between Christians • especially during Lent and on Sundays • Knights welcomed a religiously approved chance to fight
IV. The Crusades 2. Ambition • Leaders were looking for new lands to conquer • Primogeniture – eldest son inherits everything • Younger sons looked for land of their own
IV. The Crusades • Increased Trade • Italian merchants wanted to increase trade in Mediterranean • Acquire trading posts in Muslim territories
IV. The Crusades 4. Pilgrimages • A journey to a sacred shrine to show piety, fulfill vows, or gain absolution from sins • The Holy Land was an important sight for pilgrimage • Under Muslim rule
IV. The Crusades • La Reconquesta • Efforts by Christian Kings to reconquer Spain from Muslim Umayyad rule • 700 years of fighting • Culminated in 1492 with the surrender of last Muslim Kingdom in Spain • Muslims were defeated in Sicily by the Normans in 1090’s
IV. The Crusades 6. Call for Crusade • Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus asked the pope for help against Muslim threat • Reconquer the Holy Land • Pope Urban II called for Christians to go to the Holy Land and fight Muslims • Council of Claremont (1095)
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IV. The Crusades 7. The Crusades • Pope Urban persuaded the knights of Western Europe to join the First Crusade - Urban appealed to the knight's religious convictions - Urban said Muslim Turks were robbing and torturing Christian pilgrims journeying to the holy lands. - The war offered knights a chance for glory and wealth. - Urban suggested the knights fight Muslims instead of continuing to fight one another.
IV. The Crusades The First Crusade • The first Crusaders crossed into Anatolia (Turkey) in 1097 and reached Jerusalem by the summer of 1099. • The fighting was fierce, • unsuspecting Muslims were no match for the bloodthirsty Crusaders, • Crusaders killed not only fighting men, but also women and children. • Established four colonies along the eastern Mediterranean including one in Jerusalem. • The crusaders celebrated their victory in Jerusalem by slaughtering the Muslim and Jewish inhabitants of the city.
IV. The Crusades Second and Third Crusades • Strove to protect Crusader Kingdoms • Little Success Fourth Crusade • Crusaders sacked Constantinople • Largest Christian city in the world
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