How did the Crusades Change Europe
Goals & Objectives:
Goal: Students can explain, and understand, that increasing contact with the Middle East, during the Crusades, changed the face of Europe. Europe changed through trade, the breakdown of Feudalism, and the rise of Universities. This result also lead to the rise of a stronger central government (Kings).
Objective: Students, given a question on the board (How did the Crusades effect Europe in a positive way?), Will be able to write five sentences explaining the positive impact in Europe from the crusades, with 100% accuracy.
Goal: Students can explain, and understand, that increasing contact with the Middle East, during the Crusades, changed the face of Europe. Europe changed through trade, the breakdown of Feudalism, and the rise of Universities. This result also lead to the rise of a stronger central government (Kings).
Objective: Students, given a question on the board (How did the Crusades effect Europe in a positive way?), Will be able to write five sentences explaining the positive impact in Europe from the crusades, with 100% accuracy.
California Content Standard
7.6.6. Discuss the causes and course of the religious Crusades and their effects on the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations in Europe, with emphasis on the increasing contact by Europeans with cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean world.
7.6.8 Catholic church as a political, intellectual, and aesthetic institution (e.g., founding of universities, political and spiritual roles of the clergy, creation of monastic and mendicant religious orders, preservation of the Latin language and religious texts, St. Thomas Aquinas’s synthesis of classical philosophy with Christian theology, and the concept of “natural law”).
7.6.6. Discuss the causes and course of the religious Crusades and their effects on the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations in Europe, with emphasis on the increasing contact by Europeans with cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean world.
7.6.8 Catholic church as a political, intellectual, and aesthetic institution (e.g., founding of universities, political and spiritual roles of the clergy, creation of monastic and mendicant religious orders, preservation of the Latin language and religious texts, St. Thomas Aquinas’s synthesis of classical philosophy with Christian theology, and the concept of “natural law”).
Lesson Introduction
5 Mins
Hook 1:
What does making lemonade out of lemons mean to you? Can you share a time in your own life when you found the good in a bad situation?
have students write down their answer for their notes for the day.
Students share with their neighbor.
Finally, a class discussion begins. When are times that you made lemonade out of lemons?
Let us make some lemonade together, out of lemons. Crusades were a terrible event, but we will see the effect that improved Europe from these dark days.
Hook 2:
Using the Pictures below:
These are some strong European Soccer Teams(many soccer fans in my classess). With out a doubt Europe is a power house in this world, not just in soccer, but in economics too.
How did they become this powerful force? Up until 1,000, outside of Rome and Greece, we hardly speak of these countries (or the germanic tribes in these areas). So let us look at how the Crusades we have been studying, changed the world.
5 Mins
Hook 1:
What does making lemonade out of lemons mean to you? Can you share a time in your own life when you found the good in a bad situation?
have students write down their answer for their notes for the day.
Students share with their neighbor.
Finally, a class discussion begins. When are times that you made lemonade out of lemons?
Let us make some lemonade together, out of lemons. Crusades were a terrible event, but we will see the effect that improved Europe from these dark days.
Hook 2:
Using the Pictures below:
These are some strong European Soccer Teams(many soccer fans in my classess). With out a doubt Europe is a power house in this world, not just in soccer, but in economics too.
How did they become this powerful force? Up until 1,000, outside of Rome and Greece, we hardly speak of these countries (or the germanic tribes in these areas). So let us look at how the Crusades we have been studying, changed the world.
Vocabulary
Content Delivery
20 Mins
Tell the students that we are focussing on what the Middle East gives to Europe.
Before class begins already have pick the class according to their role.
On the projector or white board list the names and the roles.
Have the following. Class of 40
10 Muslims
1 Pope
3 Nobles
10 Knights
16 Serfs or Peasants
Have the students become the stage. Set up one side of the classroom as the Middle East(a fourth of the class). Have the other section become Europe. Have the students stand up and move accordingly to their section.
Bring the class back together.
Explain:
Obviously the Crusades was a lemon situation. How did Europe make Lemonade out of this situation?
Begin to direct the conversation back to the point. The Middle East is their contact back to the Silk Road. Spices, Silk, Porcelain, ideas, and Inventions.
What inventions can you think of that might of come?
How about Ideas? - Direct this to a mini thought on Plato (Europe) everything was an Allegory (a form of reality but not reality). This made Europe look at everything as a spiritual understanding. Aristotle (Middle East) Looked at the world and wanted to figure out how it worked. This leads to more inventions and science.
What do you think when some of the nobles freed some of their serfs do to the Feudal Society?
20 Mins
Tell the students that we are focussing on what the Middle East gives to Europe.
Before class begins already have pick the class according to their role.
On the projector or white board list the names and the roles.
Have the following. Class of 40
10 Muslims
1 Pope
3 Nobles
10 Knights
16 Serfs or Peasants
Have the students become the stage. Set up one side of the classroom as the Middle East(a fourth of the class). Have the other section become Europe. Have the students stand up and move accordingly to their section.
- Require the Nobles to sit in a desk (as royalty), The Knights to stand Guard (each Noble has 3 Knights, one has 4). Require all Serfs to pretend to work the land around the Nobles. Obviously we have set up a Feudal system(of which they should be highly familiar with by now)
- Tell the Pope to tell all the warriors that if they fight they will be forgiven all their sins.
- Have the European Nobles release some of their serfs so the lords can fight this religious crusade (they will be forgiven all their sins).
- Require all the students that are going to fight to walk to the Middle East.
- As the European fighters are gone near the Middle East for a while they begin to learn from their culture (have the students on both sides begin fake conversations). At this time address the idea that the crusades lasted a while. They began to learn from another culture. They got use to comfortable things. They liked certains items. They also began to look at the Islamic breakthroughs. Mathematics, and Aristotle. Fantastic!
- Make the soldiers return to Europe (but have them bring back prop books that increase their knowledge amongst different trade items).
Bring the class back together.
Explain:
Obviously the Crusades was a lemon situation. How did Europe make Lemonade out of this situation?
Begin to direct the conversation back to the point. The Middle East is their contact back to the Silk Road. Spices, Silk, Porcelain, ideas, and Inventions.
What inventions can you think of that might of come?
How about Ideas? - Direct this to a mini thought on Plato (Europe) everything was an Allegory (a form of reality but not reality). This made Europe look at everything as a spiritual understanding. Aristotle (Middle East) Looked at the world and wanted to figure out how it worked. This leads to more inventions and science.
What do you think when some of the nobles freed some of their serfs do to the Feudal Society?
Student Engagement
Student Engagement will all have a role to play in the simulation.
Students will take their notes out and begin to answer the ideas discussed.
Student Engagement will all have a role to play in the simulation.
Students will take their notes out and begin to answer the ideas discussed.
Demonstrated Learning
15 Minutes
Put a question on the board.
"How did the Crusades effect Europe in a positive way?"
Prompt their writing by making sure they use the following words:
15 Minutes
Put a question on the board.
"How did the Crusades effect Europe in a positive way?"
Prompt their writing by making sure they use the following words:
- Crusades
- Trade
- Ideas
- Serfs
- Inventions
Lesson Closure
7 Minutes
Field the answers for a little bit. Restate the sentences in your own words.
And set the next scene:
Now that Europe is receiving new knowledge and trade items. What do you think is going to happen to Europe next?
Allow yourself to field answers (if the hands are not up right away use random name generators(popsicle sticks) to field a few answers.
Talk about how the emergence of these ideas and the freeing of serfs begins a new life in Europe.
Universities begin to emerge. Education is flowing, trade is flowing (Rich).
Where is Europe headed!
Tune in next week!
7 Minutes
Field the answers for a little bit. Restate the sentences in your own words.
And set the next scene:
Now that Europe is receiving new knowledge and trade items. What do you think is going to happen to Europe next?
Allow yourself to field answers (if the hands are not up right away use random name generators(popsicle sticks) to field a few answers.
Talk about how the emergence of these ideas and the freeing of serfs begins a new life in Europe.
Universities begin to emerge. Education is flowing, trade is flowing (Rich).
Where is Europe headed!
Tune in next week!
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