CH. 9 Flashcards

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What was the historical context of the time of the crusades?

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  • the middle ages/medieval times
  • feudalism
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2
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What was Europe’s population broken into?

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1) clergy
2) nobility
3) peasantry

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3
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How did Islam become a threat?

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  • rise of the seljuk turks and their defeat of the byzantine army in the battle of manzikert
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4
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What are the two factors of the church wanting unification?

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  • the threat of islam
  • the heretical situation involving Europe
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5
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What were the crusades and military orders the answer to? What was the inquisition the answer to?

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  • crusades and military orders = unification of Europe and external threats
  • inquisition = internal threats
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What were the crusades?

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  • wars of religious character
  • a series of 8 expansive military expedition taken by Christians between 1096 to 1270 in the Holy Land and Spain against Muslim expansion
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What parts of the Christian world did Islamic forces seize?

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  • Palestine, Egypt, Asia Minor, North Africa
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8
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How was Muslim expansion halted from europe?

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  • Charles Martel’s defense of WE and Byzantine’s of the East
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9
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Who organized the first crusade?

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In 1095, Pope Urban II held a council in France to organize the first crusade as an assault in defense of Christian europe

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10
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What did the Crusades combine?

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  • the concept of a defensive war with religious pilgrimage
  • seen as acts of religious devotion by the Christians
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What were the 2 spiritual and 3 temporal motivations behind the Crusades

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spiritual:
1) indulgences
2) prolonged penance

temporal:
1) the reduction of taxes
2) dissolving of debt
3) protection of the crusader’s families

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12
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Whose preaching inspired thousands to join the crusade, sometimes convincing entire parishes to set out to east?

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St. bernard of Clairvaux

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13
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Who else traveled cities preaching for a crusade?

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Peter the Hermit of Amiens

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14
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Which crusade was considered the best organized? How was this crusade organized?

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  • the first crusade
  • armies divided into 4 groups to meet at Constantinople and began their campaign in 1097
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What are the significant events in the first crusade?

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  • besieged Nicaea
  • took Antioich
  • Jersualm fell
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16
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Why were the 1st crusaders successful in taking Jersualem?

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  • Muslim politics were not unified, so the Turks had only just risen to power and did not have total control over the land
17
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Who kept direct control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem?

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Godfrey of Bouillon and Baldwin

18
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Why was it difficult to maintain control over Jerusalem?

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1) european crusaders left and returned to Europe; only several stayed but this was not enough
2) diversity of soldiers and pilgrims made it hard to control people of diff faiths and cultures
3) organizing a government of diff peoples was not easy

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What were the events of the 2nd crusade?

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  • in 1144, the Turks recaptured the city of Edessa
  • King Louis of France and Emperor Conrad II of Germany set out to capture Damascus, but failed and were forced to retreat
20
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Which crusade is the most famous and why?

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  • 3rd crusade
    -for providing background of the robin hood stories
21
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what 3 european kings set out against the Turks who was unified under which great military leader?

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  • Richard of England, Philip of France, and Frederick of Barbarossa who were unified under Saladin
22
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What did the 4th crusade result in that ruined the East and West relationship?

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  • the sacking of Constantinople
23
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What was the “Children’s Crusade” and how did it end?

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  • children were caught up in the popular crusade movements
  • it ended with most dead and none having made it to the holy land as those who did survive were captured and sold into slavery
24
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How long did Christians have the holy land?

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  • from 1099 in the 1st crusade to 1291
  • almost 200 years
25
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What did military orders combine? What were the warrior monks bound with?

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  • both military and religious life emphasizing dedication, discipline, and monastic organization
26
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What were the 3 oldest and famous orders?

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1) knights templar
2) knights hospitalers
3) teutonic knights

27
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Which was the eldest of the 3 orders? Who founded it? What was its real name?

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  • knights templar
  • a group of 9 french knights
  • the poor brothers of the temple of Jerusalem
28
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Who wrote a rule for them based on Cistercian rule?

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bernard of clairvaux

29
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What role did the Knights templar assume? How did they become so rich?

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  • safeguarding western money that flowed to the east
  • they protected the treasury of the crusades and became bankers in europe
30
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When was the Knights Hospitalers founded? What is its real name? What is its vocation?

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  • 1130
  • the Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
  • the defense of Jerusalem and served as medical corps to the crusaders
31
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Where did the Knights Hospitalers go after the fall of Jerusalem in 1291

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  • they went to the island of Rhodes
  • they had rhodes for 200 years before the Turks captured it in 1523
32
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Where did the Knights Hospitalers go after the capture of rhodes? What did they become there?

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  • the island of malta
  • the knights of malta
33
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what order was formed when crusaders from Germany joined with the members of the german hospital in Jerusalem

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  • knights teutonic
34
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the knights remained until the ____ century and why did they dissolve?

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  • 16th century
  • because their grand master Albert of Hohenzollern abandoned Catholicism and became a Lutheran grand duke of Prussia
35
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What did the Inquisition began as a response to?

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  • response to Albigensianism, a heresey that saw the soul as good and the body as evil
36
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What was Albigensianism’s radical asceticism driven by?

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  • their belief in the evil war, physical pleasure, and matter
37
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What were the beliefs of Albigensianism?

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1) two gods
2) rejected mass, sacraments, eccelestial authority
3) hated the world, Christians, etc.
4) forbade marriage and proceation but allowed homosexual relations
5) advocated for suicide as a way to obtain religious purity

38
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What two orders were oppointed as papal inquisitors?

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  • dominicans and franciscans because of their theological training and religious formation
39
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What were the qualities of a good inquisition judge?

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zealous in protecting and promoting
1) the faith
2) the salvation of souls
3) extermination of heresy