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Crusades

Crusades. The Holy Wars. Motives. Peasants(were promised salvation to anyone killed on a crusade…could escape manor life and the lord’s control…offered adventure) Knights(could use their fighting skills…chance to gain land and wealth in the East)

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Crusades

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  1. Crusades The Holy Wars

  2. Motives • Peasants(were promised salvation to anyone killed on a crusade…could escape manor life and the lord’s control…offered adventure) • Knights(could use their fighting skills…chance to gain land and wealth in the East) • Lords(chance to gain land and wealth in the East…political power) • Pope(free Holy Land from the Muslims who didn’t believe in Christianity…help Christians in the Byzantine empire to defend their territory from the Seljuk Turks) • Cities(expand their trading Markets)

  3. Major Crusades • First Crusade(peasants crusade… land route…captured Jerusalem temporarily…set up feudal estates to help defend the recaptured land) • Second Crusade(land route…attempted to reinforce feudal states… made it as far as Turkey…spent more time fighting one another than fighting the Muslims… Jerusalem was lost to Muslims)

  4. Major Crusades cont. • Third Crusade(crusade of the Kings…water route…led by French, English, and German kings…attempted to regain Jerusalem…disaster from the beginning- King Frederick of Germany drowned in a river… failed to recapture Holy Land) • Fourth Crusade(water route…purpose was to gather works of art, jewels, and gold to pay off debts incurred on previous crusades… crusaders ransacked towns and sent their treasures home to Europe to be sold for cash

  5. Outcomes • Cities grew through increased trade. • Contact with more advanced civilizations had impact on European civilization. • Classical literature was rediscovered.

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