1. Crusades Homework Takeup
CHW3M

2. Basic Facts A: When did they begin and end? B: How many were there?
C: Other than Muslims, who else was targeted by the Crusaders as heretics?
D: On the whole, were they militarily successful?

3. Crusades with Benefits
A: What did Europeans learn from Muslims?
B: How did merchants profit?
C: How did commerce develop as a result of the Crusades?

4. Crusades
Were the Crusades a reflection of change or stability (continuity)?
Which themes of the middle ages are reflected in the Crusades?

5. Medicine – Contextualizing the Crusades
Read “Comparison of Islamic and European Medicine During the Middle Ages” in handouts.
Which one sounds more advanced for its time?

6. Medicine con’t
Read “Islamic Science” to corroborate (confirm) your answer? Circle key passages.
Note what is meant by:
Exploring
Translated
Systematic
Comprehensive

7. Medicine con’t Read Ibn Sina PSD, “On Medicine” – how is it modern?
Hints - note what he says about:
Causes
Symptoms
The humours (where does this idea come from?)
Environment
Research

8. Contextualization
All the work we have done on Islamic science was contextualization of the upcoming PSD.
Contextualization = studying what was going on at the time of writing of a primary source document

9. Urban II’s Speech
Read “Medieval Sourcebook: Urban II Speech at Clermont” only up to [Another of those present…]
this is a primary source document (PSD) that gives an account of Pope Urban II’s call for a crusade to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims
Note: the speech had factual inaccuracies in it (the Muslims did not act violently toward Christians after taking Jerusalem).

10. PSD Vocabulary Franks = French and German peoples Discourse = speech
Exhortations = recommendations (urgings)
Grievous = terrible
Imminent peril = immediate danger
Ignominy = public shame

11. Activity (work as a group but write your own)
Fill in the chart below.
Urban II’s Biases
Christians are …
Muslims are …

12. Activity, con’t
2. Identify three inferences made by Urban II. Remember that an inference is reading between the lines, not merely summarizing what he says.

13. 3. Background – identify what a student would need to know (e. g
3. Background – identify what a student would need to know (e.g., what was happening in Europe at the time) in order to determine what actually happened in to lead to the first Crusade.

14. Homework (to be done for Tues.)
Take notes on the Black Death, using these headings:
Why Europe was vulnerable
Timing and spread of the plague
Symptoms and death
Effects:
General
Social
Economic
HW needed for entry to class Tuesday.
Choose your character for Monday!