Thinking Like an Historian

Question 1

There are different explanations for the purpose of the Crusades.

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Cause and effect, Contestability:

Question 2

Peasants undertook the crusades because they wanted to escape their harsh lives.

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Empathy

Question 3

Because of the crusades conflict remains in the region of Palestine even today.

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Cause and effect

Question 4

Saldais (2009) writes, "Devout Christians during the Middle Ages chose to serve God as monks."

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Secondary

Question 5

Positive results of the crusades include new castle designs and different ways of mapping.

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Cause and Effect

Question 6

The church calendar was full of special feast days and Holy Days which everybody attended.

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Continuity: Regular events made peasants lives predictable.

Question 7

Obeying the Church's teaching preserved social order and balance in a community.

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Continuity: Through the church society was stabilised.

Question 8

A sculpture of demons tormenting souls carved into a wall in a French Cathedral demonstrates:

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A primary source

Question 9

The Pope declared William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066 to be a Holy Crusade.

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Bias: The Pope is showing William favouritism

Question 10

Sources of the crusades painted by European artists display knights as heroic.

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Bias

Question 11

The Medieval Church became very wealthy through collecting tithes.

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The church was significant due to its power.

Question 12

Knights always followed the Code of Chilvary during the Crusades.

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This opinion is contestable.

Question 13

To be charged as a heretic meant probable torture or death.

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Empathy: Peasants lacked freedom of religion.

Question 14

The crusades were eight military campaigns between Christians and Muslims in Palestine.

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Fact

Question 15

The Medieval church taught people how to behave and what to believe.

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This shows the significance of the church.

Question 16

The Crusades led to new ship designs, new ways of practicing medicine.

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Change

Question 17

The Seljuk Turks captured Jerusalem.

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Cause and Effect: Political events caused the first crusade.

Question 18

Pope Urban the Second promised, "if any who go there (Jerusalem) their sins shall be forgiven."

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Perspective: He led serfs to believe in a heavenly reward.

Question 19

The crusaders were not successful in maintaining control of the Holy Land (Jerusalem.)

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Significance.

Question 20

Monks played an important role in preserving ancient documents including the Bible

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Significance: Information was passed on and not lost.

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