1. TOPIC: Chapter 6, Week 5

2. Sub topic #1 (left side of paper) What were the Crusades? Notes (right side of paper) A holy war between Christians and Muslims, fought in the Middle East Holy War: war fought over religion The Muslims had invaded the Byzantine empire and taken over Jerusalem: holy Christian city Knights from all over Europe were asked to leave their home and travel to fight

4. Sub topic #1 (left side of paper) What were the Crusades? Notes (right side of paper) First Crusade: to fight for a cause European Christians captured Jerusalem and took it from the Muslims. 3 more major crusades, all were failures for the Christians Over time the Muslims won back all of the land they lost during the first crusade Total the crusades lasted 1098-1291

6. Sub topic #2 (left side of paper) How did the Crusades affect Europe? Notes (right side of paper) Increased trade between Europe and the Middle Ages -supplies needed to be brought back and forth between the places It ended feudalism -all of the knights had to leave to fight in the Middle East!

7. Sub topic #3 (left side of paper) What legal ideas were started in the Middle Ages? Notes (right side of paper) Henry II set up common law: laws that are the same everywhere in the country He also set up trials by juries Sir Thomas Aquinas came up with the idea of natural law: people are born with certain rights that can’t be taken Habeas corpus Parliament/representative government

8. Sub topic #4 (left side of paper) Why was the Magna Carta important to history? Notes (right side of paper) King John: was a very bad king of England. The people wanted to have more rights. They wrote the Magna Carta: (Great Charter) that said what rights they had and took rights from the king King John was forced to sign it

10. Sub topic #4 (left side of paper) Why was the Magna Carta important to history? Notes (right side of paper) It was important in history because it was one of the first times in history that people declared they should have rights and the government should have less power

11. Sub topic #4 (left side of paper) Other Vocab Notes (right side of paper) empirical: derived from or guided by experience or experiment evoke: to call up or produce