Aqa A-level crusades 1071-
1149 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
SOLVED ANSWERS.
1071 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert)
1073 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅'Investiture Controversy' between Pope Gregory VII
and King Henry IV
1076 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1085 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pope Gregory VII dies in exile
1088 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Urban II becomes Pope
1092 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Death of Malik Shah- he was a byzantine ally and
ensured stability in asia minor.
1095 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Call for aid received by Urban at council of Piacenza
1095 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅peoples crusade
council of Piacenza is held- envoys come from constantinople asking for help
1st crusade is called this year
pope urbans motivations for calling the crusades: fear for people and desire for them to
gain salvation; desire for power+ influence; to help "brothers in the east"; anti muslim
sentiment
1097 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Arrival of Crusader armies at Constantinople and
imposition of oaths of loyalty, joint victory at Nicaea especially with aid of Byzantine fleet
to blockade lake side of city. Baldwin takes Edessa from Thoros, an Armenian who held
the town from Alexios, and so should have ruled here on behalf of Alexiois - instead, he
set up his own county. Alexios does follow main crusader forces mopping up towns in
Anatolia which were formally Byzantine
1098 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Byzantines withdraw support and do not aid crusaders
at Antioch, Antioch held by Bohemond
1099 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Battle of Ascalon
, 1100 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Duqaq attempted ambush of Baldwin- warned by the
Emir of Tripoli
1100 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Raymond of Toulouse returns to Constantinople and
helps Alexios manage incoming crusaders from the west
1100-03 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Tancred captures the important fertile plains of
Cilicia which had shaken off Bohemond's authority and declared for Alexios. He then too
to captured the port of Latakia from the Byzantines
1101 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅appeal to the west after 1st crusade
Battle of Ramla
Genoese help capture Caesarea, Arsuf, Jaffa
only 300 knights remained in the holy land
1102 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅2nd Ramla
1104 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Battle of Harran- Antioch and Edessa beaten by
combined force of Mosul and Mardin- Count Baldwin (baldwin 2) captured
Venetians help take Acre
1104 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Combined Antioch and Edessa armies defeated at
Battle of Harran against combined forces of Mosul and Mardin, Bohemond returns to
Europe leaving Tancred as a tottering Antioch's regent Exploiting the Field of Blood,
Alexios retakes Cilicia and Latakia from Antioch, only to be recovered by Tancred later
in the decade
1105 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅third ramla
Damascus- Al-Sulami calls for muslim response
1105-08 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bohemond raises forces in Europe and
unsuccessfully attacks the Byzantine Empire in the west at Durazzo, though Tancred
retakes Cilicia and Latakia
1106-8 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅appeal to the west by bohemond who went back to
Europe
1107-10 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅King Sigurd and norwegians crusade in the holy
lands
1108 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Treaty of Devol agreed by Bohemond with Normans
keeping Antioch but holding it as liegemen from Alexios with Byzantines, but
significantly not with Tancred
1149 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
SOLVED ANSWERS.
1071 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert)
1073 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅'Investiture Controversy' between Pope Gregory VII
and King Henry IV
1076 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1085 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pope Gregory VII dies in exile
1088 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Urban II becomes Pope
1092 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Death of Malik Shah- he was a byzantine ally and
ensured stability in asia minor.
1095 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Call for aid received by Urban at council of Piacenza
1095 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅peoples crusade
council of Piacenza is held- envoys come from constantinople asking for help
1st crusade is called this year
pope urbans motivations for calling the crusades: fear for people and desire for them to
gain salvation; desire for power+ influence; to help "brothers in the east"; anti muslim
sentiment
1097 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Arrival of Crusader armies at Constantinople and
imposition of oaths of loyalty, joint victory at Nicaea especially with aid of Byzantine fleet
to blockade lake side of city. Baldwin takes Edessa from Thoros, an Armenian who held
the town from Alexios, and so should have ruled here on behalf of Alexiois - instead, he
set up his own county. Alexios does follow main crusader forces mopping up towns in
Anatolia which were formally Byzantine
1098 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Byzantines withdraw support and do not aid crusaders
at Antioch, Antioch held by Bohemond
1099 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Battle of Ascalon
, 1100 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Duqaq attempted ambush of Baldwin- warned by the
Emir of Tripoli
1100 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Raymond of Toulouse returns to Constantinople and
helps Alexios manage incoming crusaders from the west
1100-03 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Tancred captures the important fertile plains of
Cilicia which had shaken off Bohemond's authority and declared for Alexios. He then too
to captured the port of Latakia from the Byzantines
1101 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅appeal to the west after 1st crusade
Battle of Ramla
Genoese help capture Caesarea, Arsuf, Jaffa
only 300 knights remained in the holy land
1102 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅2nd Ramla
1104 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Battle of Harran- Antioch and Edessa beaten by
combined force of Mosul and Mardin- Count Baldwin (baldwin 2) captured
Venetians help take Acre
1104 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Combined Antioch and Edessa armies defeated at
Battle of Harran against combined forces of Mosul and Mardin, Bohemond returns to
Europe leaving Tancred as a tottering Antioch's regent Exploiting the Field of Blood,
Alexios retakes Cilicia and Latakia from Antioch, only to be recovered by Tancred later
in the decade
1105 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅third ramla
Damascus- Al-Sulami calls for muslim response
1105-08 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bohemond raises forces in Europe and
unsuccessfully attacks the Byzantine Empire in the west at Durazzo, though Tancred
retakes Cilicia and Latakia
1106-8 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅appeal to the west by bohemond who went back to
Europe
1107-10 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅King Sigurd and norwegians crusade in the holy
lands
1108 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Treaty of Devol agreed by Bohemond with Normans
keeping Antioch but holding it as liegemen from Alexios with Byzantines, but
significantly not with Tancred
