1. The Crusades WORLD HISTORY

2. Stinger  How can warfare bring people from different cultures and backgrounds into contact with each other?  How might warfare affect the political balance of power in the warring countries?  How might warfare affect economic development negatively?  How might warfare affect economic development positively?  How might religion and warfare be related?  How might warfare affect the social structures of the warring people?  How might warfare affect knowledge?  How might technology developed for war be used after war has ended?  How might warfare spread knowledge?  How might geography influence warfare?  How might warfare influence geography?

3. Thoughts…  Conflict, cooperation, etc.  Consolidation of power  Nationalism  Economics: broken windows theory  Warfare does not GENERATE economic activity  Economic activity is transferred from one area to another  Trade barriers exist during war  Trade expands after war  People are exposed to products, technologies, etc that are not common in their areas

4. More Thoughts…  Religious warfare  Unifying religious cohorts  Conversion? Why?  The process of the “other”  Oddly enough, people learn more about each other because they come into conflict  Intellect  Warfare technology converted to peaceful means after war  Drive to create bigger, better, more effect weapons  Improvements in travel technology  Development of banking during crusades  Exposure to ideas, books, learning, etc that Europe had forgotten during the Medeival Period

5. Final Thoughts…  Geography  Some areas that are easy to pass get more traffic and become more diverse as people move through, settle, etc.  Hierarchy  Cities along these travel routes become bigger  Cities along these travel routes become centers of power  Cities along these travel routes have more access to goods, services, etc.  Cities along these travel routes also become more dangerous and take more damage  Accessibility  As armies try to travel from place to place, more roads and pathways are built  New Technologies improve accessibility of areas  Improved accessibility makes areas able to sustain larger populations and concentrates populations in those areas  Improved accessibility improves trade  Diffusion  As people move they bring with them  Knowledge  Culture  Ideas  Disease  People spread and become more unified and diverse at the same time.  Complementarity- Various peoples become linked by trade, culture, and knowledge

6. Crusades Timelines

9. Documents Activity  Use a separate piece of paper  For Each Document  Identify the Source of the document  Make a comment about the possible motivations of the person who is writing the document  How might the document be biased by position of power, point of view, or ulterior motives?  Answer the Scaffolding Questions  Outline a response to the overall essay question and bring your outline to class on Thursday (Blocks 2,4, and 8) and Friday (Block 1)

10. For Homework  Outline a response to your question.  You may start a rough draft  On Thursday (or Friday) we will review some rules for writing a stellar document based question  We will write rough drafts and exchange them for peer review  You will write a final draft to bring to me on Monday (or Tuesday) to count as an assessment grade for the second marking period.