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Quaestio : What sparked the first Crusade?

Quaestio : What sparked the first Crusade?. Nunc Agenda: Based on last night’s reading, try to come up with as many causes for the Crusades as you can. Background Information. During the Middle Ages, the Muslim world was more advanced than Western Europe

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Quaestio : What sparked the first Crusade?

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  1. Quaestio: What sparked the first Crusade? Nunc Agenda: Based on last night’s reading, try to come up with as many causes for the Crusades as you can.

  2. Background Information • During the Middle Ages, the Muslim world was more advanced than Western Europe • With the Viking threat now gone, European knights needed someone to fight, and the teaching of chivalry was not working well enough to curb knightly violence • Already deeply religious, recent issues like Investiture Controversy increased passion for religious issues among Western Christians • 1054- Great Schism split East and West Church

  3. The Holy Land • The Holy Land = Jerusalem and other areas in and around Palestine important to Abrahamic religions • Jews: promised land where King David and Solomon ruled, ancient homeland • Christians: (above and) where Jesus lived and preached his message • Muslims: (above and) where Muhammad journeyed into heaven

  4. The Holy Land • 600s- Muslims took over the “Holy Land” • 1030s- Bad Muslim ruler destroyed Church of the Holy Sepulcher • Rebuilt by next Muslim ruler, but damage done • 1050s- Seljuk Turks took over same area, AT FIRST preventing Christian pilgrims AND they were a threat to the Byzantine Empire

  5. A Cry for Help • Byzantine Emperor Alexius I asked Pope Urban II (his rival) to send SOME knights to help him fight the Seljuk Turks • 1095- Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II calls on nobles and bishops to fight a Crusade against the Muslims, accusing Muslims of persecuting Christians, offering forgiveness of sins for anyone who fights, and saying “God wills it!”

  6. Speech- Pope Urban II • Read the speech by Pope Urban II at Clermont in 1095 • Annotate, and let me know if you come across a word you don’t know • Write one paragraph answering question #1 on the back

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