test time crusades

Question 1

What were the crusades?

Answer 1

The Crusades were a series of religious and political wars fought to gain control of the Holy Land

Question 2

What is the silk road?

Answer 2

silk road was the main product that traveled on the trade route

Question 3

When did the 4 crusades happen.

Answer 3

1st: 1096 – 1099 To recover the holy land
2nd: 1145 – 1149 to recapture the city of Edessa
3rd: 1189 – 1192 reduce the Christian states and recapture Jerusalem
4th: 1202-1204 conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem

Question 4

Why did the crusades happen?

Answer 4

1st: To recover the holy land
2nd: to recapture the city of Edessa
3rd: reduce the Christian states and recapture Jerusalem
4th: conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem

Question 5

What were the Knights Templar/ Crusader State

Answer 5

A number of mostly 12th- and 13th-century feudal Christian states

Question 6

What were the the effects of the crusades?

Answer 6

increased the authority of the king