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Title: The Middle ages


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The Middle ages
  • Some interesting facts

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Crusades
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1st Crusade
  • Urban the II starts first Crusade in 1095
  • first Crusade starts shortly after this
  • Many Muslims get killed in the Ruthless
  • War for the Holy city of Jerusalem
  • -At the siege of Jerusalem Muslim
  • Population got Massacred including children and
    some women

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About Crusades in total
  • Crusades were started when the Pope called to
    arms
  • This often happened after non Christians invaded
    Christian countries
  • AS a reward the Pope offered to forgive all the
    sins the knights had committed in their live

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War and Crusades the 2nd
  • Was started by Eugene III
  • Started because of the fall of the county Edessa

  • This had been the first of the Crusaders
    Counties after the firs crusade
  • And again many Muslims and Crusaders Died
    because of their religion

Knights of the Templar order ready to fight in
Jerusalem
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Where did all this happen ?????
  • - Some people think Crusades only happened in
    Turkey or Israel but in fact they also happened
    in countries like
  • Spain and Portugal
  • Southern France
  • Baltic areas ( mostly German Christian Knights
    fighting )
  • And Against Mongols attacking Russia and
    Lithuania


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Teutonic knights fighting Mongols in Russia
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2 Knights
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Were did the knights come from ??
  • from France
  • In this time Spain was in the hand of Saracens
    .they had something that was largely unknown in
    that time Horsemen
  • These made short work of the slow French foot
    soldiers and France paid heavy losses
  • As a result the Frenchman Karl Martell copied the
    Idea of Warriors on horses and Started an army of
    Heavily armored French knights .
  • These finally had enough hitting power to drive
    of the Saracens

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Weapons
  • -As Knights were noble warriors they needed
    Weapons
  • -Knights were Warriors on horses and thus had
    lots of weapons they could use
  • (Continued on next page with some pictures)

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  • a relatively new invention.
  • It allowed the warrior fighting with the flail to
    hit enemies with a shield as the chain just bent
    over the shield

-the horseman's favorite -had a short shaft so it
was easier to swing from horseback
  • -mainly used by squires.
  • had a higher penetrating power then a normal bow.

  • disadvantage that it took way longer to reload
    then a bow e.g. A good archer could fire about
    20-25 arrows per minute , a good crossbowman only
    1-2

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-Most commonly used -a good sword could cost up
to 2 cows
-The lance a weapon which was used from
horseback - it allowed you to pierce enemies fro
m horseback
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Everyday life
  • 1.If you confessed , someone from the church had
    to sanctify it.
  • 2.But it was very
  • expensive . Thats why
  • farmers
  • Fought in the War.
  • 3. When farmer went to fight in the war they
    didnt have to get a sanctify from a priest

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?? How did they live ??
  • Lot of work from dawn to dusk
  • -had to give 1/10 of his harvest to the church.
  • -When the kids turn 5 they started working to.

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Witch
  • If you betrayed your husband ,you would have to
    carry heavy consequences as you were not allowed
    to do so .
  • if you didnt listen to the Church ,everybody
  • Would call you witch too.
  • Many witches were burnt as the church thought
    that the flames would clean you from the evil
    spirit


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  • The people in the middle age were very
    superstitious.
  • They thought that the right Religion was
    Christianity but there were also different
    religions.
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