The First Crusade and the Background to it, 1070-1099

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AS - Level History Quiz am The First Crusade and the Background to it, 1070-1099, erstellt von Erin Mason am 21/12/2015.
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

Frage 1

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The place where the Seljuk Turks had originated from.
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  • Persia
  • Anatolia
  • Egypt
  • Central Asia

Frage 2

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The place where the Turks had migrated recently from. They were heavily influenced by its culture and language.
Antworten
  • Scandinavia
  • Romania
  • Persia
  • Europe

Frage 3

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The nomadic Islamic people who had invaded Anatolia in the 1060's after conquering Persia.
Antworten
  • Abbasids
  • Fatimids
  • Egyptians
  • Seljuk Turks

Frage 4

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The Christian land that the Seljuk Turks overran after Manzikert, during the 1070's and 1080's.
Antworten
  • Anatolia
  • Persia
  • Romania
  • Scandinavia

Frage 5

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The territories conquered by the Turks in Anatolia that became a separate sultanate.
Antworten
  • Danishmends
  • Rum
  • Hama
  • Aleppo

Frage 6

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The Seljuk ruler who ruled the empire at its greatest extent and after whose death in 1092 collapsed.
Antworten
  • Alp Arslan
  • Tughril
  • Malik Shah I
  • Barkiyaruq

Frage 7

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The important battle that took place between the Byzantines and Seljuk Turks in 1071. The Byzantine army was routed.
Antworten
  • Harran
  • Inab
  • Ramlah
  • Manzikert

Frage 8

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The leader of the Seljuk Turks who captured the Byzantine emperor at Manzikert in 1071.
Antworten
  • Tughril
  • Alp Arslan
  • Muhammad
  • Malik Shah II

Frage 9

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A reforming pope who had attempted to aid Byzantium after Manzikert.
Antworten
  • Victor I
  • Gregory VII
  • Soter
  • Pius I

Frage 10

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The branch of religion that the Seljuk's had converted to. They recognised the titular authority of the Caliph in Baghdad.
Antworten
  • Shia Muslim
  • Kharijite Islam
  • Sunni Islam
  • Sufism

Frage 11

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The Shia Muslims who controlled Egypt and were at war with the Seljuk Turks over the Levant.
Antworten
  • Seljuk Turks
  • Abbasids
  • The Assassins
  • Fatimids

Frage 12

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The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and one of the greatest cities in the world.
Antworten
  • Constantinople
  • Alexandria
  • Antioch
  • Niacea

Frage 13

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The division between Eastern and Western Christians that had occurred in 1054.
Antworten
  • Eastern v Western culture
  • The Great Schism
  • Anglicanism
  • Catholic v Protestant

Frage 14

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The Byzantine emperor after Romanos IV. He attempted to repair relations with the papacy in 1073 in order to gain military support.
Antworten
  • Isaac I
  • John II
  • Michael VII
  • Alexios I

Frage 15

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A Turkish cousin of Alp Arslan. He established an understanding with Alexios I and was used to manage threats from the other Turks in Anatolia until 1086.
Antworten
  • Balak
  • Sulayman
  • Bursq
  • Zengi

Frage 16

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A Turk who established a semi - interdependent hold over Smyrna in southern Anatolia in 1084. His fleet threatened the Byzantine islands in the Aegean.
Antworten
  • Sulayman
  • Zengi
  • Caka
  • Nur ad - Din

Frage 17

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A semi - nomadic people that invaded the northern European Byzantine territories. by 1090 they had conquered many of them and were an imminent threat to Constantinople.
Antworten
  • The Assassins
  • Pechenegs
  • Byzantines
  • Turks

Frage 18

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The cunning Norman leader of Sicily until 1085. He was a sworn enemy of the Byzantines. He was an alley of Pope Gregory VII.
Antworten
  • Tancred I
  • William III
  • Henry I
  • Robert Guiscard

Frage 19

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The battle in 1081 that was a decisive Norman victory over the Byzantines. The Normans overplayed their hand shortly after
Antworten
  • Manzikert
  • Ramlah
  • Dorylaeum
  • Dyrrhacion

Frage 20

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In this year the Normans staged a second invasion of Byzantium but Byzantine forces were able to defeat this.
Antworten
  • 1081
  • 1079
  • 1082
  • 1084

Frage 21

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At this battle in 1091 the Pechenegs were almost completely annihilated by the Byzantine forces and their Cuman allies.
Antworten
  • Manzikert
  • Ramlah
  • Lebounion
  • Dyrrhacion

Frage 22

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A new gold coinage established in 1092 that was 30% gold, 60% silver and 10% copper. It helped to reduce inflation.
Antworten
  • Pound Sterling
  • Euro
  • Hyperpyron
  • Drachma

Frage 23

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The Patriarch of Constantinople appointed by Alexios I in 1084. He proved loyal to the agenda of the emperor.
Antworten
  • Eustratius Garidas
  • Nicholas III Grammaticus
  • John IX Agapetus
  • Leo Styppeiotes

Frage 24

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The Byzantine general who took the throne in a military coup in 1081.
Antworten
  • Alexios II Komnenos
  • Andronikos I Komnenos
  • Alexios I Komnenos
  • John II Komnenos

Frage 25

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A group descended from the Vikings who had settled in Sicily and raided Byzantine territories.
Antworten
  • Latins
  • Fatimids
  • Assassins
  • Normans

Frage 26

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The pope that Alexius sent a letter to asking for military assistance against the Seljuk Turks.
Antworten
  • Urban II
  • Alexander II
  • Stephen IX
  • Paschal II

Frage 27

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The German (or Holy Roman) Emperor and King of Germany that was locked in dispute with the papacy over investiture.
Antworten
  • Conrad II
  • Henry III
  • Frederick I
  • Henry IV

Frage 28

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A dispute between the papacy and secular princes, especially Henry IV, over who appointed bishops.
Antworten
  • Primogeniture
  • Investiture
  • Feudal & Social
  • Financial

Frage 29

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The allegedly ancient document that popes used to claim theoretical control over western Europe.
Antworten
  • The Bible
  • Dead sea scrolls
  • Nicene Creed
  • Donation of Constantine

Frage 30

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The alpine fortress where Emperor Henry IV begged Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness for three days in the snow in 1077.
Antworten
  • Alpine Wall
  • Hindenburg Wall
  • Canossa
  • Brimstone Hill Fortress

Frage 31

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The spiritual power that the bishops of Rome claimed from St. Peter.
Antworten
  • Jesuitism
  • Petrine Authority
  • Anglo Catholicism
  • Jacobean Authority

Frage 32

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A document listing the powers that the papacy claimed over the church and secular princes.
Antworten
  • Peace of God
  • Donation of Constantine
  • Truce of God
  • Dictatus Papae

Frage 33

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The imperial appointee as archbishop of Milan in 1075. This infuriated Gregory VII and developed into the wider investiture controversy.
Antworten
  • Taticius
  • Petrus
  • Otto
  • Tedald

Frage 34

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The year that the Roman synod was held that forbade lay investiture. Appointments using it were to be invalid and those involved excommunicated.
Antworten
  • 1078
  • 1076
  • 1071
  • 1054

Frage 35

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A rival or anti-pope to both Gregory VII and Urban II. His reign ran from 1080 - 1100. He was appointed and backed by Henry IV of Germany.
Antworten
  • Benedict X
  • Honorius II
  • Sylvester IV
  • Clement III

Frage 36

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A prominent and powerful supporter of Gregory VII who aided him against Henry IV. Her forces were part of the Milites Christi.
Antworten
  • Beatrice
  • Bertha
  • Matilda
  • Mildred

Frage 37

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The so-called soldiers of God that were armed men who fought to advance the interests of the papacy both within Italy and against Muslims.
Antworten
  • Soldiers of Peace
  • Milites Dei
  • Christ's Children
  • Milites Christi

Frage 38

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The church council in March 1095 at which Alexios' letter was delivered to Urban II.
Antworten
  • Piacenza
  • Clermont
  • Nabulas
  • Acre

Frage 39

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The church council at Aurvergne in southern France in November 1095 where Urban II launched the First Crusade.
Antworten
  • Clermont
  • Acre
  • Piacenza
  • Nabulas

Frage 40

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What were the five traditional centres of Christianity; each had a patriarch called collectively. Three were in Muslim hands.
Antworten
  • Pentarchy
  • Constantinople
  • Antioch
  • Alexandria

Frage 41

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The centre of Christian faith. Pilgrimage to it had been disrupted by the Seljuk invasion.
Antworten
  • Constantinople
  • Alexandria
  • Antioch
  • Jerusalem

Frage 42

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The tomb in which Jesus Christ had been buried. It was the holiest relic in the Christian faith.
Antworten
  • Holy tomb
  • Grave site
  • Holy Sepulchre
  • Holy Burial site

Frage 43

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An attempt to prohibit all fighting between Western Christians at certain times.
Antworten
  • Peace of God
  • Just War Theory
  • Truce of God
  • Prohibited

Frage 44

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An attempt to protect certain groups such as the church and poor peasants from violence.
Antworten
  • Truce of God
  • Just War
  • Peace of God
  • Knightly Dilemma

Frage 45

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The doctrine developed by St. Augustine that allowed for Christian violence in certain circumstances such as the reclamation of Christian lands.
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  • Peace of God
  • Truce of God
  • Just War Theory
  • Knightly Dilemma

Frage 46

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The place that the papacy was already seeking to encourage Christians to attack Muslim lands.
Antworten
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • England
  • France

Frage 47

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The belief that saints acted as intercessors to God and that they existed in a hierarchy.
Antworten
  • A lot of Saints
  • Intercessions
  • Hierarchy of Saints
  • Cult of Saints

Frage 48

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This was a relic that was holy through proximity.
Antworten
  • Cloth
  • Bodily relic
  • Money
  • Brandea

Frage 49

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This was a relic that was literally a part of a saint. They were usually the focus of pilgrimage.
Antworten
  • Brandea
  • Finger
  • Toe
  • Bodily relic

Frage 50

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This was a desire to travel to holy places. The most important of which was Jerusalem.
Antworten
  • Voyagers
  • Deeply religious people
  • Pilgrimage
  • Well travelled

Frage 51

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An act to demonstrate that an individual was seeking forgiveness for their sins. This could include acts such as pilgrimage.
Antworten
  • Forgiveness
  • Love
  • Penance
  • Prayer

Frage 52

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A promise made to crusaders that their previous sins would be wiped clean if they took part.
Antworten
  • Remittance of Sins
  • Forgiveness of sins
  • Repentance
  • Penance

Frage 53

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This meant that Christians saw their actions as justified and holy rather than the sin of murder.
Antworten
  • Just war theory
  • Sanctified Violence
  • Peace & Truce of God
  • Knightly dilemma

Frage 54

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The clash between a knights role to kill and the fear of committing murder. It was solved by the promise of sanctified violence.
Antworten
  • Signs and Wonders
  • Just War Theory
  • Sanctified Violence
  • Knightly Dilemma

Frage 55

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These were natural phenomena that were ascribed to God giving direct instructions to undertake the crusade.
Antworten
  • Signs and Wonders
  • Miracles
  • Preaching
  • Prayer

Frage 56

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The centre of village life in western Europe. It oversaw birth, marriage and death it acted as the heart of the community.
Antworten
  • A home
  • A Hospital
  • Shops
  • Parish Church

Frage 57

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The one-tenth of a Christians income given to the church as an act of religious devotion.
Antworten
  • Donation
  • Tithe
  • Flocks
  • Money

Frage 58

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A crusader who seems to have been motivated mostly by sincere religious devotion as he was already very wealthy.
Antworten
  • Count Emicho
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Bishop Adhemar
  • Raymond of Toulouse

Frage 59

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He was in a poor position in the Holy Roman Empire and was not well liked by Henry IV. He also seems to have been personally pious.
Antworten
  • Bohemond of Taranto
  • Bishop Adhemar
  • Tancred
  • Godfrey of Bouillon

Frage 60

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He was close to Urban II and was sent to represent him on the First Crusade.
Antworten
  • Tedald
  • Taticius
  • Bishop Adhemar
  • Peter the Hermit

Frage 61

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This force religiously motivated peasants and knights ignored Alexios' advice to wait for the princes and were massacred by the Turks.
Antworten
  • 1101 Crusade
  • 1120 - 24 Crusade
  • People's Crusade
  • Norwegian Crusade

Frage 62

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A charismatic preacher and leader of the People's crusade, he was religiously motivated.
Antworten
  • Tedald
  • Raymond of Toulouse
  • Bishop Adhemar
  • Peter the Hermit

Frage 63

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A German count who led his 'crusading' forces in a pogrom against the Jews of the Rhineland.
Antworten
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Raymond of Toulouse
  • Count Emicho
  • Peter the Hermit

Frage 64

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A motivating factor regarding the potential to gain land that can best be seen in actions of Bohemond, Tancred and Baldwin.
Antworten
  • Greed
  • Feudal Obligation
  • Social Obligation
  • Primogeniture

Frage 65

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An increasingly common law that meant eldest sons inherited, leaving younger sons with little.
Antworten
  • Primogeniture
  • Greed
  • Pilgrimage
  • Feudal & Social Obligation

Frage 66

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The historian who argued that a knight would have had to raise five times his annul income. This would argue against greed as a motivator.
Antworten
  • Jotischky
  • Asbridge
  • Oldenberg
  • J. Riley - Smith

Frage 67

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The Norman Crusader who was hated by Alexios. He was well known for his bravery and skill in battle. He was looking for land and wealth.
Antworten
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Raymond of Toulouse
  • Bohemond of Taranto
  • Tancred

Frage 68

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Bohemond's nephew. He was also seeking lands and fortune and the crusade solved his knightly dilemma.
Antworten
  • Baldwin I
  • Raymond of Toulouse
  • Tancred
  • Josecelin I

Frage 69

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The younger brother of Godfrey who travelled with him. He had left the church to be a knight and was seeking a fortune in the east.
Antworten
  • Raymond of Toulouse
  • Bohemond of Taranto
  • Tancred
  • Baldwin of Boulogne

Frage 70

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This had affected Europe for several years inflicting great hardship on peasants. It might have encouraged him to leave for the holy land.
Antworten
  • Water shortage
  • Famine
  • Money
  • Food

Frage 71

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A motivating factor exploited by Urban II in his specific appeal to senior European nobles. It might have encouraged them to leave for the holy land.
Antworten
  • Social Obligation
  • Feudal Ties
  • Greed
  • Primogeniture

Frage 72

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This social tie played an important role for facilitating the participation for many of the crusader leaders including Baldwin and Tancred.
Antworten
  • Feudal Ties
  • Kinship
  • Greed
  • Primogeniture

Frage 73

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An able warrior but a poor administrator. He saw the crusade as an opportunity to resurrect his reputation.
Antworten
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Baldwin of Boulogne
  • Stephen of Blois
  • Robert of Normandy

Frage 74

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A crusader who was motivated by social pressure from his wife and by the presence of his kin on the crusade.
Antworten
  • Robert, Duke of Normandy
  • Stephen of Blois
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Robert of Flanders

Frage 75

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His family had a long standing connections and friendship with the Byzantine emperors and a history of pilgrimages to Jerusalem.
Antworten
  • Walter sans - Avoir
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Stephen of Blois
  • Robert of Flanders

Frage 76

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A knight and lieutenant of Peter the Hermit. His forces plundered Byzantine territory on the way to Constantinople.
Antworten
  • Stephen of Blois
  • Robert of Flanders
  • Count Emicho
  • Walter Sans - Avoir

Frage 77

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A German city and site of an anti - Semitic pogrom in the summer of 1096 by Count Emicho.
Antworten
  • Anhalt
  • Mainz
  • Brandenburg
  • Berlin

Frage 78

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The incorrect belief that Jews murdered and sacrificed Christian children. They were also blamed for the murder of Jesus.
Antworten
  • The Jews did it
  • Anti - Semitism
  • Blood libel
  • I have no idea

Frage 79

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The place where Emicho's army was destroyed.
Antworten
  • Spain
  • Hungary
  • England
  • America

Frage 80

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The site of intrigue between Alexius and the crusader leaders. They were forced to take an oath to him.
Antworten
  • Antioch
  • Niacea
  • Alexandria
  • Constantinople

Frage 81

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The Turkish sultan of Rum. His Seljuk forces were defeated at Nicea and again at Dorylaeum.
Antworten
  • Malik Shah
  • Giyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I
  • Suleiman ibn Qutulmish
  • Kilij Arslan I

Frage 82

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A rival Turkish Dynasty that Kilij Arslan was at war with Anatolia. This benefited the crusade.
Antworten
  • Sultanate of Rum
  • The Assassins
  • Danishmends
  • Fatimids

Frage 83

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The first target of the Crusade. This city surrendered to the Byzantines and the crusaders felt betrayed.
Antworten
  • Niacea
  • Antioch
  • Jerusalem
  • Constantinople

Frage 84

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Alexios' general and representative. He served as a guide/diplomat in Anatolia and led a small force with the crusade to Antioch.
Antworten
  • Tedald
  • Count Emicho
  • Walter sans - Avoir
  • Taticius

Frage 85

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This site of a major battle and victory for the crusaders in Antioch in July 1097. It demonstrated Bohemond's skill.
Antworten
  • Dorylaeum
  • Ramlah
  • Inab
  • Harran

Frage 86

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The extreme heat made this part of the journey very hazardous and many men were lost.
Antworten
  • Mainz
  • Niacea
  • Anatolia
  • Cicilia

Frage 87

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Tancred and Baldwin travelled here and virtually fought each other for control of its cities.
Antworten
  • Antioch
  • Niacea
  • Jerusalem
  • Cilicia

Frage 88

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The crusade benefited from supplies from the Byzantine territory during the siege of Antioch.
Antworten
  • France
  • Algeria
  • Cyprus
  • Japan

Frage 89

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The siege of this city took ten months and almost destroyed the crusade. It was finally given to Bohemond causing Byzantine fury and the end of Alexios' support for the First Crusade.
Antworten
  • Niacea
  • Jerusalem
  • Tripoli
  • Antioch

Frage 90

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These brothers and rulers of Aleppo and Damascus failed to untie against the crusafers and attacked separately whilst the crusaders besieged Antioch.
Antworten
  • Nizar & Musta‘li
  • Ridwan & Duqaq
  • Richard & Henry
  • Edward & David

Frage 91

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The ruler of Mosul. He led a combined Muslim force to Antioch. It was defeated partly through internal disunity and ill- treatment of his men.
Antworten
  • Nasir al-Dawla
  • Muhammad ibn Musayyib
  • Za'im al-Dawla Baraka
  • Kerbogha

Frage 92

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A convert to Islam who betrayed the garrison at Antioch after making a secret deal with Bohemond.
Antworten
  • Nizar
  • Firuz
  • Ridwan
  • Duqaq

Frage 93

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These Shia Muslims attempted to from an alliance with the crusaders against the Seljuks.
Antworten
  • Seljuk Turks
  • Abbassids
  • Fatimids
  • The Assassins

Frage 94

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The construction and co-ordinated use of these demonstrated military skill and was vital to the capture of Jerusalem.
Antworten
  • Catapults
  • Siege Engines
  • Weapons
  • Artillery

Frage 95

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This so called relic was found in Antioch and played a massive role in raising crusader morale.
Antworten
  • The Holy Lance
  • St Andrews Cross
  • A piece of the True Cross
  • The Holy Grail

Frage 96

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The vizier and chief advisor of Malik Shah. His death shortly before his master's in 1092 crippled the Seljuk empire.
Antworten
  • Nizam al- Mulk
  • Badr al - Jamali
  • al- Muqtadi
  • Musta 'il and Nizar

Frage 97

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The powerful Shia Fatimid caliph who death in 1094 was a major blow.
Antworten
  • Musta 'il and Nizar
  • Nizam al- Mulk
  • al- Mustansir
  • Badr al - Jamali

Frage 98

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The religious conviction of these people carried the crusade forward the leaders were divided at Antioch and Maarat.
Antworten
  • The people's crusade
  • Pilgrims
  • Soldiers
  • Ordinary Crusaders

Frage 99

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The capable Fatimid vizier who died very shortly after his master in 1094.
Antworten
  • al- Mustansir
  • al - Muqtadi
  • Badr al - Jamali
  • Musta 'il and Nizar

Frage 100

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The sons of al- Mustansir who fought for the Fatimid throne after their father's death.
Antworten
  • Ridwan and Duqaq
  • Musta 'il and Nizar
  • Lot and Abraham
  • David and Goliath

Frage 101

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The Abbassid Sunni caliph of Baghdad who died in 1094.
Antworten
  • al- Mustansir
  • al - Muqtadi
  • Badr al - Jamali
  • Musta 'il and Nizar
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