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| What are the four general causes for the Crusades? | Religious, economic, political and social factors |
| What were the religious causes for the Crusades? | Desire of Christians to gain the HOLY LAND AND JERUSALEM and THE PRMISE OF salvation FOR CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS. |
| What were the economic causes of the Crusades? | Italian merchant cities wanted to control luxury TRADE routes and gain wealth and power from shipping AND young nobles who could not inherit a feudal estate had LAND HUNGER |
| What were the political causes of the Crusades? | kings were threatened by the power of barons and Byzantium was threatened by the Muslim Turks |
| What were the social causes for the Crusades? | Adventuire and escape from manor life and control |
| What was the trigger for the Crusades? | Pope Urban II called for a Holy War in 1096 to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. |
| What was the battle cry of Christian Crusaders? | Deus vult! God wills it! |
| Action: What was the result of the First Crusade? | Capture of Jerusalem and set up four feudal estates in Palestine. |
| Action: What was the result of the Second Crusade? | Muslims counterattck and defeat Christian armies. |
| What wa the turning point of the Crusades? | Led by Saladin the Muslims recapture Jerusalem in 1187. |
| Action: What was the result of the Third Crusade? | The Crusade of kings of England, France and Germany gained a truce for Christian pilgrims to travel to Jersalem. Holy Land under Muslim control. |
| What was the result of the Fourth Crusade? | Crusaders sack Byzantium. |
| What were the results of later crusades? | Failure and disastrous enslavement or death of Children's Crusade. |
| What was the concluding event of the Crusades? | The fall of Acre, the last Crusader city. |
| What were the results of the Crusades? | Kings grew stronger, Italian trade cities gained wealth and power, long distance trade increased, new ideas and technologies from Muslim world spur learning and exploration, and religious changes |
| What were the religious results of the Crusades? | Pope's power weakens, idea of Holy War is introduced, religious intolerance increases. |
