Chapter 9- Section 3 The Europeans Look Outward The world in 1050. 1.Isalam’s had given rise to a brilliant new civilization that stretched from Spain to India. 2.Muslim traders and scholars spread goods and ideas even further. 3.In Peru, Native Americans were building empires and creating g reat works of art, including elegant, pottery, textiles, and jewelry.

THE CRUSADES 1. The Bryzantine emperor Alexis urgently asked Pope Urban for christian knights to help him fight the turks. 2. In 1095, the Council of Clermand, Urban inated bishops and to actions.

MOTIVES 1. By 1096, thousands of knights were on their way to the Holy Land. 2.Many knights hoped to win wealth and land. 3. The Pope, Urban, hoped to increase his power in Europe and perhaps heal the schism that split between the Roman and Bryzantine churches.

VICTORIES AND DEFEATS 1. In the year of 1099, christian knights captured Jerusalem. 2. The Crusaders contained off and over 200 years and divided their captured lands inot four small states. 3.By 1291, the Muslims captured the last christian outpost, the port city of acre, as in Jerusalem 200 years earlier, the victors massacred their defeated enemies, the chriatians.

EFFECTS OF THE CRUSADES 1. The Crusades increased trade. 2. They increased Power for Monarchs. 3. The Crusade further encouraged the growth of a money economy.