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14-3 The Crusades
Term | Definition |
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barter | to trade goods for other goods |
Holy Land | Jerusalem and parts of the surrounding area where Jesus lived and taught |
Jerusalem | a city in the Holy Land |
pilgrim | a person who journeys to a sacred place |
Crusades | a series of military expeditions launched by Christian Europeans to win the Holy Land back from Muslim control |
What were two reasons crusaders fought? | to reopen the Holy Land to Christian pilgrims and to control the trade routes |
About how long did the Crusades last? | 200 years |
Why did Christians and Muslims want to control the Holy Land? | both believed it was a sacred place |
Which group of people would be especially interested in winning the Crusades, so they could control the trade routes? | merchants |
Peter the Hermit | a man who led an army of common people to Constantinople to fight the Seljuk Turks |
What was the effect of the Crusades on the use of money? | it increased through out Europe |