The Crusades (Final assignment answer KEY)

3Vwo (52 pt)

Content
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-- What does the word Crusades mean? (2 sentence max.)

(2 pt)

A series of military campaign held in the name of God. A holy war, Christendom vs. Islam.
-- When did the Crusades take place? (1 sentence)
(2 pt)
From1096 till 1272.

-- Why did the Crusades take place? (100 words max.)

Religious: in an effort to assert his religious authority amongst the public, Pope Urban II called for the

(6 pt)

Crusades to the Holy Land. All those who decided to go were told they could achieve salvation.

Political: many European territories and monarchies were engaged in competition to increase their
holdings in the Holy Land. Western European powers responded with support from the Catholic Church to
protect Christendom in the Eastern Empire.

Economical: the possibility of gaining access to Islamic markets and trade routes to China would allow
for the introduction of new goods as well as markets to sell European goods.

4 -- What did the Crusades lead to eventually? (100 words max.)

(6 pt)
The answer should contain at least 3 of the following consequences of the Crusades:
The European powers were unsuccessful in gaining and holding onto lands in the Islamic territories;
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the Crusades serve as an example of European cultural and economic expansion;

the cultural and intellectual ideas coming from Islamic lands (such as philosophy, astronomy,
mathematics and science) benefited Europe greatly in its own development;

the introduction of new agricultural and trade goods (such as spices, coffee, granulated sugar, silk
products and cotton textiles) into European markets increased the demand for trade as well as Europe's
economic development;

this cross-cultural exchange of goods and ideas helped shape European society;

it also encouraged further exploration of new lands for trade and expansion of the European empire.

-- Who was involved in the crusades (name at least 6 groups of people)

The Knights Templars;

(6 pt)

The Knights Hospitallers;

The Teutonic Khnights;
The Seljuk Turks;
The Saracens;
The Assassins.

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Form
Vocabulary
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-- Match with the correct synonym (mind you: there 2 words too many)

1. to coexist
2. rampage
3. a conquest
4. a threat
5. salvation
6. crops
7. manor
8. a Baron
9. community
10. commerce
11. to flourish
12. urbanisation
13. catalyst
14. stipends
15. recitation
16. resurrected
17. outcast
18. mutilated
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(16 pt)

a. to live together peacefully, to tolerate

b. violently wild and destructive behaviour
c. the capture or taking of something by force
d. menace, danger
e. Gods forgiveness of sins
f. plants grown to be used as food
g. a large estate (farmland), owned by a Lord
h. a title for a Lord or a nobleman
i. a group of co-existing population
j. business, buying and selling
k. to develop in a successful way
l. leaving the countryside to live in cities
m. stimulant, motivation, incentive
n. fixed sum of money paid periodically
o. the act of reciting aloud by memory
p. brought back to life
q. a person who is rejected or cast out
s. disfigured, crippled

-- Make 2 meaningful sentences with the 2 words left

(4 pt)

The grading is based on 2 criteria: a) word is used in the right context, b) sentence structured correctly.

Grammar
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-- Regular or irregular verbs. Odd man out

(5 pt)

Find the regular verb in each line and write it into the gap
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

read, feel, play, see

listen, do, go, make
know, help, say, think
like, write, forget, eat
take, bring, cut, clean

play
listen
help
like
clean

1 -- Comparative or superlative

(5 pt)

Fill in the correct form of the words in brackets (comparative or superlative)

1.

This flower is more beautiful than that one.

2.

John is cleverer than his brother William?

3.

A holiday by the sea is better than a holiday in the mountains.

4.

Who is the richest woman on earth?

5.

The weather this summer is even worse than last summer.

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The Crusades (Final assignment answer KEY)

3Vwo (52 pt)