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Global Studies: Ancient to 1750 BC Pre-Assessment

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Historical Context: Beginning in 1095 and lasting through 1291 Europeans launched a series of religiously based military expeditions, generally sanctioned by the Pope, called the Crusades. The original aim was to recapture the Jerusalem and the surrounding Holy Lands, from the Muslims. The Crusades, with approximately nine large, as well as numerous other smaller expeditions, had a significant impact on the political, social, and economic life of Europe during the Middle Ages.

Read the following passages, map and image and answer the questions that follow.
Document 1
At the noon hour on Friday, with trumpets sounding, amid great commotion the Franks entered the city. . . Men joyfully rushed into the city to pursue and kill the nefarious enemies, as their comrades were already doing. Many of our enemies fled to the roof of the temple of Solomon, and were shot with arrows, so that they fell to the ground dead. In this temple almost 10,000 were killed. Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet colored to our ankles with the blood of the slain. But what more shall I relate? None of them were left alive; neither women nor children were spared.
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Part A (Document 1)
The author of this passage is most likely?

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Part B (Document 1)
Which detail from the passage supports Part A?

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(3) What is the meaning of the word nefarious as it is used in the passage? (Document 1)

Document 2
1. Each person will give in charity one tenth of his rents and movable goods for the taking of the land of Jerusalem; except for the arms, horses, and clothing of knights, and likewise for the horses, books, clothing, and vestments [religious garments], and church furniture of the church.

2. Let the money be collected in every parish in the presence of the parish priest and the rural dean . . . and of a servant of the Lord King and a clerk of the King . . . And if any one according to the knowledge of those men give less than he should, let there be elected from the parish four or six lawful men, who shall say on oath what is the quantity that he ought to have declared . . .
- Proclamation of Henry II, King of England, 1188
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What is the purpose of King Henry II’s proclamation? (Document 2)

Document 3
Jerusalem was taken from the north on the morning of July 15, 1099. The population was put to the sword by the Franks, who attacked the area for a week. A band of Muslims barricaded themselves into the Tower of David and fought on for several days. They were granted their lives in return for surrendering. The Franks honored their word, and the group left by night for Ascalon. In the Al-Aqsa Mosque the Franks slaughtered more than 70,000 people, among them a large number of holy men and Muslim scholars, faithful men who had left their homelands to live lives of religious seclusion in the Holy Place. The Franks stripped the Dome of the Rock of more than forty silver candle holders and more than twenty gold ones, and a great deal more booty. Refugees reached Baghdad and told the ruler’s ministers a story that wrung their hearts and brought tears to their eyes. They begged for help, weeping so that their hearers wept with them as they described the sufferings of the Muslims in that Holy City: the men killed, the women and children taken prisoner, the homes violently robbed.
Excerpt from Ibn al-Athir’s “The Complete History,” 1231
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What sentence BEST captures the main idea of the passage? (Document 3)

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Which evidence from the passage BEST supports the answer to Part A (Document 3)?

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Based on the passage, the Muslim view the Frankish Crusaders as (Document 3)

Document 4
Map of the Crusades


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Which of the following is true based on the map of the Crusades? (Document 4)

Document 5
Among the Franks are those who have become acclimatized and have associated long with the Muslims. These are much better than the recent comers from the Frankish lands. But they constitute the exception and cannot be treated as a rule.
Here is an illustration. I dispatched one of my men to Antioch on business. There was in Antioch at that time al-Ra’is Theodoros Sophianos, to whom I was bound by mutual ties of amity. His influence in Antioch was supreme. One day he said to my man, “I am invited by a friend of mine who is a Frank. Thou shouldst come with me so that thou may see their fashion.” My man related the story to me the following words:
I went along with him, and we came to the home of a knight who belonged to the old category of knights who came with the early expeditions of the Franks. He had been by that time stricken off the register and exempted from service, and possessed in Antioch an estate on the income of which he lived. The knight presented an excellent table, with food extraordinarily clean and delicious. Seeing me abstaining from food, he said, “Eat, be of good cheer! I never eat Frankish dishes, but I have Egyptian women cooks and never eat except their cooking. Besides, pork never enters my home.” I ate.
- Muslim poet, Usmah Ibn Munquidh, Autobiography, c. 1175
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Part A
What is Usmah’s general attitude toward the Christians of the Holy Land (Document 5)?

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Part B
Which detail from the passage best supports Part A? (Document 5)

Document 6
Image from Middle Ages Manuscript
Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ae9f6cca-ae5c-4149-8fe4-95e6eca1f73c/

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What does this image suggest about some European cities during the Crusades? (Document 6)

Constructed Response
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Using the information from the documents provided, write a well-constructed multi-paragraph essay explaining the impact that Crusades had on Europe and areas in the Middle East? Use relevant facts, examples, and details from at least 4 (four) of the documents to support your response.