The Crusades

Europeans Answer to Islamic Expansion

Economic Expansion for Europe?

P. D’auteuil ---Bronx Tech H. S.

INTRODUCTION

The crusades began as an answer from Europe to the pleas of Byzantine emperor Alexius I to help expel the Seljuk Turks from the Holy Lands. But was that the only motive? For the knight crusaders, religious zeal, and other motives such as: to escape trouble at home, the hope of new lands and wealth, and adventure. For the peasants who joined the crusades they were free of all feudal bonds while on the journey and a promise of salvation for all who fought and died freeing the Holy Lands. The Pope, Urban II also had mixed motives: he wanted to increase his power in Europe, heal the schism between the Roman and Byzantine churches and he hoped to turn the Christian knights against Muslims instead of one another.

So for one or more of these motives Christians left Europe on five Crusades including, The Children’s Crusade off and on for over 200 years. The Europeans never won a permanent victory and all land taken by them was re taken by the Muslim army. These Crusades left a bitter legacy of religious hatred in both the Middle East and Europe, as both Christians and Muslim armies committed appalling atrocities against each other as well as the returning European’s fury against the Jews, massacring entire communities.

Task

You are an investigative reporter invited to travel on one of the crusades and you are to make a presentation based on your findings and photographs to members of the European Union to help them negotiate a peace settlement with the Muslim leaders.

First Crusade 1096-1099, Second Crusade 1147-1149,

Third Crusade 1189-1192, Fourth Crusade 1202-1204

The Children’s Crusade 1212

Your first task is to complete the first four (4) steps in the Global History public policy analysis, outlined below in the PROCESS section below this one. The four worksheets are to be completed, 1 sheet each in a four student group.

Your second task is to complete a power point presentation to the members of the European Union detailing the Crusades and their effects on Europe and the Holy Lands. This power point presentation must be at least 15 slides and must include 1 slide for each of the Public Policy analysis worksheets completed by your group.

Your third task is to write a two paragraph summary of the work that each group member did for the first two tasks. Each group member must sign this summary.

Make sure all information you gather is confirmed in the text book or other printed reference material.

Process

As a public policy analyst, you need to develop the following policy skills:

Developing these skills will help you fill out the five worksheets due as part of the second task.

The links to the Five Worksheets are located at the bottom of each page linked below:

1. IDENTIFY THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS WITH THE CRUSADES. (Worksheet #1)

What social problems did the Crusades create for Europeans/Muslims?

2. GATHER EVIDENCE OF THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS WITH THE Crusades (Worksheet #2)

How do you know that these social problems existed?

3. DETERMINE THE CAUSES AND FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE CRUSADES. (Worksheet #3)

Why did the Crusades happen? Look at the issue from all sides: the Muslim, and European.

4. EVALUATE THE EXISTING POLICIES THAT PREVENT ANOTHER CRUSADE FROM TAKING PLACE. (Worksheet #4)

Is it possible for another Crusade to take place or are there policies against such a practice?

RESOURCES

I. SEARCH ENGINES (to find websites or pictures on your own click on images.)

https://www.google.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.excite.com/

II. WEBSITES:

First Crusade

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/children's_crusade.htm

http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/first_crusade.html

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cru2.htm

http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/themes/t_1/st_1_02/a102_006.htm

Second Crusade:

http://latter-rain.com/crusades/crutwo.htm

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine2.html

http://www.medievalchurch.org.uk/cr_2.html

Third Crusade:

http://jmgainor.homestead.com/files/PU/Cru/3cr.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/third_crusade.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Saladin.htm

Fourth Crusade:

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/fourth_crusade.htm

http://crusades.boisestate.edu/4th/

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/1204.html

Children’s Crusade:

http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/childrens_crusade/

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/children's_crusade.htm

Maps: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Maps+of+crusades&btnG=Search

EVALUATION

Performance	Excellent 5	Good 4	Satisfactory 3	Needs Improvement 2
Completion of Worksheets	Fully understand the social problem, its causes and public policy that arose from it, and fully completes worksheets	Good understanding of social problem, causes, and public policy. Completion of worksheets	Satisfactory understanding of social problem, causes, and public policy. Substantially completes worksheets.	Minimal understanding of social problem, causes, and public policy. Failure to complete worksheets
Completion of Power Point Presentation	Full completion of 10 power point slides with pictures, graphics and meaningful text	Professional looking power point presentation, with 10 slides, plus some pictures, graphics, and meaningful text	Completed power point presentation with some pictures, graphics and meaningful text.	Partially completed power point presentation. Absence of sufficient pictures, graphics, and text.
Oral Presentation (power point)	Full presentation of power point slides. Each group member presents one or more slides.	Good presentation of power point slides. Two out of 3 group members present slides.	Satisfactory presentation of power point slides. 1 of 3 group members present slides.	Presentation of power point slides. 1 of 3 group members present slides.
Organization	Group worked together on all projects and handed in signed group summary	Group worked together on most projects and handed in signed group summary	Group worked together on most projects but failed to hand in group summary	Group did not work well together

STANDARDS

This Web quest conforms to the following curriculum standards:

Social Studies: Standard 2

The student will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments and turning points in world history, and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Social Studies: Standard 3

The student will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live- local, national, and global- including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

English Language Arts: Standard 1

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

English Language Arts: Standard 4

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

CONCLUSION

Through this web quest and power point presentation students will be able to discover the main causes as well as the underlying events that led to the four Crusades. They will also be able to understand that the contact with the more advanced Byzantine and Muslim civilizations broadened European views of the world; and encouraged the growth of money economy, which helped to undermine serfdom.

However affect of religious atrocities and massacres on both sides has had a lasting effect on both sides of the Crusades as we can see in the world today. And in many ways these memories have united the Muslims & Christians against the common enemy-Themselves