Different Perspectives On The Crusades

Answers to Questions: Video 1

Answers to Questions: Video 2

1. They are both the greatest warriors of their culture. 2. Glorious, by his description of warriors driven by honor, power, and fame. 3. Richard the Lionhearted name is first. This might mean that the video will be biased towards the Christian side of the Crusades. 4. Maybe he does it to strengthen the Christian point. If all we know is that Jerusalem is being taken over from the Christians who had it originally, then we’d think that they weren’t the ones who started it. 5. The Christian capture of Jerusalem was horrific, people were killed for no reason other than to create terror. 6. Revenge for the First Crusade and getting Jerusalem back. 7. People without a defined culture or religion. 8. Deadly warriors bred by a lifetime or living in a country that valued military skill the most, determined to hold on to Jerusalem. 9. From this, Richard. The video shows that while they were both great warriors, it went into more depth about how Saladin didn’t know much about the enemy and how great the European soldiers were.

10. This could show the narrow-minded view of the narrator. Only a portion of the world was involved, and the narrator exaggerating this could show that they might exaggerate other things. 11. He’s speaking Hindi, which is the national language of India. Maybe this could bias him towards the Muslim side. 12. He might want religious intolerance, extremism, and terrorism to be associated with Crusaders to build up a point against the Church. 13. The term “brainwashed” could show that the Crusaders weren’t thinking for themselves, but were rather blindly following a power which they believed in. 14. The Byzantine Empire was the one that prompted the first Crusade by requesting help from the Church to control the Muslim Turks invading their borders. 15. It shows that the narrator is trying to appeal to the Christian side of things too by sympathising with them. 16. The word “propaganda” is related to the word “brainwash”. It again shows that the narrator believes that the people weren’t in their right minds because of being fed false information before the war. 17. No, only around 1.7 million died. It is important that he’s wrong because other facts he states might also be wrong. 18. As a strict, somber religion. 19. He spends a lot more time describing the gore, other than the other video’s gloss over it. 20. Because he wants to emphasize the strength of the Muslim army. 21. Saladin, because he took mercy on the Crusaders and offered a peace treaty. 22. The first one. The Christians being attacked, the mention of Saladin’s unpreparedness, and the detail of the Christian suffering but the glossing over of the first crusades. 23. The second one. The gore of the first crusade was described more in detail, the exaggeration of numbers, and him associating words like terrorism with the Crusaders.

Key Ideas: Video 1

Key Ideas: Video 2

Third Crusade: two empires came together to symbolise the struggle of Islam and Christianity.    Saladin and Richard the Lion Hearted brought their empires together in holy war Muslims wanted to get Jerusalem back from Christians (4 generations) Christians in city panicked, had good reason to be terrified: Saladin was driven by the first Crusade First Crusade: with the permission of the church, Christian soldiers ripped Jerusalem from the Muslims and killed every living thing in sight Bloodshed to create terror Saladin didn’t know much about Europe, thought it had no culture Western society was actually increasingly advanced Richard the Lion Hearted was one of the most proud warriors

The entire world was involved with the Crusades for 200 years Clash of civilizations, religions, and nations The entire Muslim world clashed with the Christian world Religious passion: these were wars of passion Crusades were an example of religious intolerance, extremism, and terrorism West brainwashed their people and provoked them to fight Muslims Muslims were in control of the Byzantine empire Christians were angry b/c Muslims had defeated them before Christians wanted revenge and so they attacked Spain, which was mostly in Muslim control Christians brutally killed many many Muslims Temples filled with Muslim blood and body parts, babies smashed against walls , blood reached till knees of horses