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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
The Crusades
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Campaign
Perspective
Motive
Why can one campaign involve more than one motive? Explain how the perspective of a source’s creator affects what it can reveal about actions and experiences during the Crusades.
Read the situation.
The Crusades were a series of campaigns with religious, political, and material motives. Urban II’s call in 1095 helped initiate the First Crusade. Crusader forces captured Jerusalem in 1099; Saladin retook it in 1187. The Fourth Crusade’s attack on Constantinople in 1204 shows that campaigns did not always follow a simple Christian-versus-Muslim pattern.
02 Organize the information.
The dispatch dates
Use the supplied anchors 1095,1099,1187,1204.
Put the events in time order.
1099: Crusaders capture Jerusalem.
1187: Saladin retakes Jerusalem.
1204: Fourth Crusade forces sack Constantinople.
1095: Urban II calls for a crusade.
Write the letters in order:
→→→
Explain why one step or event belongs where you put it.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
What does the evidence show?
The Crusades
03 Follow the evidence.
Challenge a simple division
Claim: “Every conflict in the Crusades was Christians fighting Muslims, with no other relationships.”
Select all evidence that challenges the claim.
Fourth Crusade forces attack Christian Constantinople.
A record describes trade across political and religious boundaries during conflict.
A sermon calls for warfare.
A map marks Jerusalem as a contested city.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
A balanced editorial
Which editorial sentence best uses the evidence?
Choose the most defensible synthesis.
Religious aims, political decisions, and material interests interacted; violence and exchange affected groups differently.
Trade cancels the significance of military violence.
A single sermon explains every event over two centuries.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write an editor’s note correcting a one-cause account of the Crusades. Include a dated event, a contrast in experience, and a source limitation.