Middle Ages

Day 7

Crusades and Trade

 

Journal: You are a young merchant in France who has just heard Pope Urban II's call to the Crusades. The pope wants Christians to be able to reclaim the holy land from the Muslims, and so he has asked church leaders and feudal lords to being military expeditions eastward. You being packing your supplies immediately—you are very excited about going. Why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

á       1st Crusade 1096-1099 Brought much of Holy Land under European control, set up 4 states

á      Turks won back many of their lands

á      2nd Crusade 1147 Failure.

á      3rd Crusade 1189-1192 Three emperors try and fail.

á      4th Crusade 1202 Gain Constantinople, a Christian city

á      Children's Crusade 1212 Huge disaster.

 

Results of the Crusades:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Centers of Trade:

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         Muslims                  Christians                  Eastern Orthodox

 

Label: Italy, Netherlands (Flanders), Spain, Germany, France, England, Constantinople, Jerusalem

List goods that are produced on each continent and then traded below.

 

Asia                              Europe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:_______________________________________

Homework: Create a billboard that advertises a product that was commonly traded in the Middle Ages. You must decide what product you would like to advertise, where it is being sold (is your audience Asian or European?) and design a compelling advertisement.

 

Product: ________________________________________

Audience: _______________________________________