8352043705 | Alexius I Comnenus | asked the pope to organize military support which created the First Crusade | ![]() | 0 |
8352072872 | Constantinople | Capital of the Byzantine Empire | ![]() | 1 |
8352082433 | Council of Clermont | A meeting where Pope Urban II asked the bishops and nobles to support the Crusades. | ![]() | 2 |
8352100014 | Battle of Hattin | Saladin, Muslim prince of Egypt, crushes crusaders here and captures Jersualem | ![]() | 3 |
8352137775 | Heretics | those who hold to a belief opposed to the established teachings of a church | ![]() | 4 |
8352159725 | Hugh de Payens | Count of Champagne made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1104-07 and visited Jerusalem | 5 | |
8352186050 | Investiture | The authority claimed by monarchs to appoint church officials | ![]() | 6 |
8352199432 | Controversy | A disagreement among many people. | 7 | |
8352218742 | Jerusalem | A city in the Holy Land, regarded as sacred by Christians, Muslims, and Jews. | 8 | |
8352223960 | JIhad | A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | 9 | |
8352237484 | Knights | Warriors who fought on horseback | 10 | |
8352248672 | Papacy | the government of the Roman Catholic Church | 11 | |
8352264135 | Peter the Hermit | Monk who excited people to attempt ill-prepared People's Crusade | 12 | |
8352278048 | Pope Urban 11 | agreed to send Christian knights to fight muslim knights | 13 | |
8352287916 | Primogeniture | A system of inheritance in which the eldest son in a family received all of his father's land. | 14 | |
8352310321 | Purgatory | A place where souls went before they went to heaven | 15 | |
8352321806 | Remission of Sin | Forgiveness for sin | ![]() | 16 |
8352356694 | Richard the Lionhearted | An English king who lead the Crusaders in an attempt to regain the Holy Land from Saladin. | ![]() | 17 |
8352366235 | Rose Water | water made from soaking rose petals. Allows for forgiveness and cleans up blood after a religious battle | 18 | |
8352403820 | Saladin | (1137-1193) Powerful Muslim ruler during Third Crusade, defeated Christians at Hattin took Jerusalem | ![]() | 19 |
8352403821 | Siege of Acres | The Siege of Acre was the first significant counter attack by King Guy of Jerusalem to the losses the kingdom experienced to Saladin, leader of the Muslims in Syria and Egypt and formed part of what later became known as the Third Crusade | ![]() | 20 |
World History Exam - The Crusades Flashcards
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