Transcript Topic: Exploration Aim: How did te crusades lead to the

Topic: Exploration
Aim: How did the Crusades lead to the Age of Exploration?
Do Now: 1. Based on the pyramid below, who
had the most power?
2. Which group had the largest population?
KING
LORDS
VASSALS (KNIGHTS)
PEASANTS (LARGEST GROUP)
SERFS (SLAVES)
The Middle Ages (Dark Ages)
Europe
• Feudal System (Feudalism): rule by lords
who owe loyalty to a monarch
• Manor: large estates run by Lords
• Few people left the manor. The manor
had everything needed for survival. It
was self-sufficient. (blacksmith, church,
market, etc.)
The Middle East
•Muhammad spread Islam
•Followers wrote Muhammad’s messages in
the Qur’an (Muslim holy book)
•By the late 600’s A.D. Islam conquered much
of the Mediterranean area
Causes
We The
mustCrusades:
fight to
take back
Jerusalem
in conquered
the
• In 637
Muslims
Jerusalem
name of
– Allowed pilgrims of other faiths to visit the
Holy Christianity!!!
City
• Seljuk Turks (also Muslims) took over
Jerusalem in 1077 and refused to allow
Jewish or Christian pilgrims into the city
• Pope Urban II called on Christians to
fight and reclaim Jerusalem (1095)
Fighting The Crusades
•The Crusades lasted over
150 years
•Christians gained control
of Jerusalem at the end of
the 1st Crusade
–Lasted 90 years
•Saladin (1187)
–Muslim Sultan
–Defeated Christians and
took the city back
•The Christians were
impressed with the new
goods they encountered in
the Middle East
•Many brought back the
goods to Europe after the
Crusades
•The new goods were in
great demand in Europe
•The Christians were impressed with the
new goods they encountered in the Middle
East
•Many brought back the goods to Europe
after the Crusades
•The new goods were in great demand in
Europe
ACTIVITY
• Predict how the Crusades led to the Age
of Exploration