DBQ Questions On The Crusades

merchants and trade from the religions origins’ origins until about 1500. Are there indications of

From their origins to 1500, the attitudes of both Christian and Muslims toward trade shifted as conditions in the Christian and Islamic worlds changed. In the beginning, Christian attitudes were more negative, while Muslims tended to encourage and respect trade and merchants. Over time, Muslims became more like early Christians in that they were suspicious of traders whereas the Christians became more like the early Muslims, equating merchants (at least honest ones) with doing God’s work, reflecting the changed importance of trade in the high Middle Ages in Europe.

CCOT ESSAY: Analyze continuities and changes in the ways ONE of the following regions participated in interregional trade during the period circa 1500 to 1750.

The crusades that occurred from the 11th through to the 13th centuries were a series of a number of military campaigns. The Papacy sanctioned these campaigns. Originally, crusades were Catholic endeavors that were undertaken to recapture the Holy Lands (McKay et al., 2014). However, through time, some of the wars were against the other non-catholic Christians. The wars that were directed against non-Catholics were inclusive of the fourth crusade, which was against the Constantinople. The Aligensian crusade was

When studying trade and commodities of Empires in any period of time, it is important to look at the changes that the trade created within the involved nations. What crops were popular enough to grow commercially in the empire, what the increase of trade did to the population demographics, and how the global system influenced the interactions of the countries involved can be found through close reading primary sources. Through sources like Trade and Travel in the Far East by G.F. Davidson and Tearful Conversation over the Mulberry Fields and the Sea by Nguyen Thuong Hien, scholars can determine the impact these factors had on the lives of those who experienced empirical trade. In comparing these two documents, the most prominent focus is on

he subject of the crusades is still a very controversial topic that spans across various time periods and has religious, social, and political implications. The first crusade started off as a widespread pilgrimage that ended as a military expedition resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. The crusades initiated from a call from help from Alexius for the protection of Constantinople and the recovery of Anatolia. For centuries textbooks have repeated with routine regularity, that the immediate cause, of the Crusades was the Turkish conquest of the Near East, which apparently was a very real threat to Christendom, that had to be countered by military action. With this in mind, the primary purpose of this essay is to identify the various reasons that contributed to the start of the first crusade, while disproving the fact that the first Crusade was a response to a military threat. In discovering the true cause of the first crusades it is necessary to examine it from all aspects from the start to the finish.

(A) The Crusades caused tension between European inhabitants of the time. (A1) Because of the tensions present, there was a sack of Constantinople which resulted in the loss of some great pieces of literature and art present in the city at the time. (A2) Because of the hostility, The Magna Carta was drafted. (A3) Trade and commerce between the two religions was also slowed as a result of the tensions. This could have limited the growth and development of the area compared to what it could have been if trade and commerce were prevalent between the two religions.

There was more opportunities in trade. There were more opportunities in trade because someone would want something get it, it would spread and more people would want the same thing but they would raise the prices and people would get mad about it. A map from document 5 shows that Jerusalem was one of the major trading cities, they traded things like cloth, wine, soap, horses, sliver, and metalware. All of those items were sold to people/cities in Asia. A quote from document 6 is “When crusaders returned to Europe, they brought back such things as silk, sugar, and spices.”

This is important because they left hatred between the states. Document 5 states that “After those kingdoms collapsed, Muslim rulers still encouraged trade with

Islam soon acquired vast amounts of territory in Afro-Eurasia, and according to the map, “The Growing Worlds of Islam (900-1500),” it occupied an area from parts of central Asia to West Africa and Eastern Europe by the start of the sixteenth century. This map documents the phases of the growth of Islam for six hundred years, which combined with further analysis will reveal each step in the conquest of each new phase of territory. Controlling all of these nations created standardized trade and common business practices throughout the empire. Using already intact trade routes, such as the Silk Roads, documented in the map provided as document 1, the Islamic empire built an economic system that was unified by common religious beliefs. Comparing the trade routes mapped on both the Silk Roads map and the “The Growing Worlds of Islam (900-1500)” map, one can see that they are very similar, suggesting that they remained the same and that the Islamic empire just took over the control of each. Yet it was not just the Silk Roads that saw a revival at the hands of Muslim commercial excursions. The Mediterranean and Indian Ocean sea routes, as well as the trans-Saharan routes were given new life as well due to the Islamic empire. These routes not only produced trade, but they also opened up opportunities for new agricultural products and a sharing of ideas and innovations. These

The positive effects of the crusades were that it allowed for the growth in trade, towns, and education in medieval Europe. (io) The trade routes that developed during the crusades continued as it was profitable and brought a variety of goods that included sugar, cotton, rice, and cloth. (doc.2) Trade also promoted cooperation and reduced conflicts. Merchants who had

In The middle of the Eleventh Century The tranquillity of the eastern Mediterranean seemed assured for many years to come, but little did the people know what was ahead . This, thus embark us on a journey back into the First Crusade. In this paper I will be discussing the events that lead up to the first in a long line of crusades. I will also be mentioning the lives of some of the crusaders through letters that they wrote. The crusades were a time of confusion for most people, yet today we look back at them as a turning point.

From 1095 CE to 1291 CE, there was a total of nine Crusades that spanned from Western Europe to the Middle East. The Crusades were military campaigns fought between the Christians and the Muslims, and their justification was to obtain control of Jerusalem: the Holy Land. The impact of the Crusades can still be seen today, as they were an important factor in the modernization of Western Europe’s civilization. The Crusades affected many parts of the world, including the people who fought in these battles and the others who were at home. These wars directly affected the role of the Church in Europe, since the Crusades were fought in the name of Christ and they provided the wealth and power the church gained as a product of the Crusades. Not only

During the Middle Ages, there was a series of seven wars that lasted seven centuries known as the Crusades. Each Crusader Army had one major goal: to recapture Jerusalem from the Seljuk Turks, the land where Jesus had been crucified. Historical narratives often depict the first Crusaders as warriors and religious heroes because they succeeded in temporarily recapturing the Holy Land. While the Second Crusade depicted the crusaders as a mass failure when they lost the land they were protecting, the third crusade portrayed them as religious heroes once again, when Richard the Lionheart almost captured the Holy Land again. However, the Fourth Crusade shattered all hopes of recapturing Jerusalem. The Roman Catholic people had high expectations for the war, but it ended horribly when the crusaders attacked their own allies in Constantinople. This tragedy was a major turning point during these wars because it changed how the crusaders were viewed. The failure of the 4th crusaders forces historians to wonder how a well-trained army failed to attack their enemies and instead attacked the very people they wanted to protect. When one examines the issues encountered by the crusaders, the greediness of the Venetians, the political struggles of Constantinople, and the spread of Greek cultures, one can better understand the cause and effect of the Fourth crusade.

The Crusades were a series of military conflicts in which European Christians went to the Near East to reclaim territories lost by the Byzantine Empire to Islamic Caliphates. An historical debate arising from this period is what motivated the Crusaders to attempt this undertaking. Some view the Crusades as religious wars motivated by the differences between Christianity and Islam, particularly with regards to the control of sites and cities sacred in both religions. Others have seen the Crusades as a war for territorial expansion that merely employed the rhetoric of religious conflict. This paper will examine this historical debate with reference to two opposing academic articles. It will argue that the motivations that led to the Crusades