Mr. Dorrough’s History Class

Chapter Eleven Standard Guide: From The Crusades to New Muslim Empires

Key Terms

• Crusades
• Seljuks
• Pope Urban II
• King Richard I
• Salah al-Din
• Reconquista
• Inquistion
• anti-Semitism
• Mongols
• Genghis Kahan
• Mamluks
• Ottomans

Essential Questions

1. Why do Jews, Christians, and Muslims consider Jerusalem a Holy Land?
2. What Was happening in Muslim lands that led European Christians to begin going on crusades at the end of the Eleventh Century? For What reasons did the Europeans Join the Crusades?
3. Describe what happened during the First, Second and Third Crusades, as well as the Reconquista. Who were the key individuals involved in these religious wars?
4. How was the Inquistion used to expel Jews and Muslims from Christian Spain?
5. How did the Crusades affect the lives of those who fought in the wars? How did the Crusades affect Christians, Muslims, and Jews? Consider economic, social, and cultural changes.
6. Explain how each of these empires came to control Muslim lands, and describe each empire’s influence in the area: Mongols, Ottoman, Safavids, and Mughalas.

Standards Adressed

7.6 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Europe.

7.6.6 Discuss the causes and course of the religious Crusades and their effects on the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations in Europe, with emphasis on the increasing contact by Europeans with cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean world.

7.6.9 Know the history of the decline of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula that culminated in the Reconquista and the rise of Spanish and Portuguese kingdoms.

7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

7.9.7 Describe the Golden Age of cooperation between Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain that promoted creativity in art, literature, and science, including how that cooperation was terminated by the religious persecution of individuals and groups (e.g., the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1492).