1、The CrusadesLong Term Causes Growth of Italian Trade Advance the Church by providing a common enemy.Need to provide and adventure or cause for fighting nobles.This was the big adventure of the early middle ages.Short term causes.Constantinople threatened.Sermon and letter from Pope Urban saying“Your
2、 sins will be forgiven if you join up.”Pope Urban toured France and Europe to gain support.He told the people to stop fighting amongst themselves,and instead go take Jerusalem back from the Infidels.For those of you lost in a new-age,Tolkein,Goth,Druid,Freshman dream world,you can still buy Crusader
3、 gear on line.Pope Urban made promises.Sins forgiven Heavenly ParadiseThe more aristocratic crusaders wore crosses.There were two main groups:Nobles and princes,and sons who would not inherit land.Young men looking for adventure Other groups included children,hangers on,prostitutes,and anyone else l
4、ooking for adventure.This group was hard to“control”and often didnt make it even to the Middle East.Im going off to the Crusades,fair wife.I wont have to cook.First Crusadeon the way,Jews were massacreda trial run for killing the Muslims.Childrens Crusade.Famous Crusader Cities:AntiochAcreTripoliIn
5、1098,the crusaders conquered Jerusalem and took it back from the Seljuk Turks.The Muslims,who were the infidels were slaughtered.Women and children were bayoneted and burned.Wow,arent we Christians civilized?The third Crusade is famousRichard the Lionhearted and Frederick Barbarossa vs.Salidin.It re
6、sulted in a peace treaty for pilgrims(lasted about 10 years).Muslims became more hostile to Christian West because of the attacks.Five hundred years later,Vienna was besieged by the Turks in 1683!This was the last major Islamic incursion into Europe.After the pillage of Constantinople,a Christian ci
7、ty,by Christian troops,the role of the Church diminished.The“church”empires in the East and West were weakened by their crusades in the Holy Land.There was improved technology in the fields of Mathematics,medicine,and architecture.The stunning discovery,that members of another faith(the Muslims)could be fair and humane.Military strength was increased in Medieval Europe.New products from the Crusades:Silks Apricots Spices Perfumes Glass making techniques Primitive gunpowder.This helped the Commercial Revolution that began the Renaissance.
