Crusades A level EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS.
According to Tom Asbridge what happened in Antioch after the finding of the Holy
Lance? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The leaders still tried to negotiated a surrender with
Kerbogha and only committed to battle when he refused
Define 'purgatory' - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In between Heaven and Hell- like Hell but
temporary
Describe Pope Urban's background - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅He was from a French
noble family
Explain 'second sons theory' and given an example to support it - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Belief that First Crusaders were mostly landless second sons who hoped
to gain land and titles (e.g. Bohemond or Baldwin of Boulogne)
Explain what a 'vassal' is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅someone who swears fealty to
someone above them in the feudal system
Give an example of penance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pilgrimage, donating money,
flagellation, crusading
Give an example which shows the First Crusaders acting like pilgrims - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Expelling women, walking barefoot, wearing sign of Cross, commitment
to reaching Jerusalem
How did Robert of Normandy raise the funds needed for his crusade? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅He mortgaged his Duchy to his brother (King William II of England)
How much did it cost a knight to go on crusade? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅4-5 times
their annual income
How were the first crusaders able to capture Jerusalem so quickly? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Good leadership from Godfrey, use of siege towers, help of Genoese
fleet, reinforcements had to come from Cairo
In 1100, Baldwin I was warned of an attack by Duqaq by who? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Fakhr al-Mulk (Tripoli)
, In what year did Duqaq of Damascus die? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1104
Most important pilgrimage site for Muslims? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mecca
Name a first crusader who fits 'Second sons theory' - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Bohemond of Taranto/ Baldwin of Boulogne
Name a first crusader who had clear spiritual motives - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Robert of Normandy/ Robert of Flanders
Name Bohemond's nephew - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Tancred de Hauteville
Name the 1104 battle which was a huge defeat for Edessa and Antioch - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Harran
Name the 5 parts of the 'pentarchy' - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rome, Jerusalem,
Antioch, Constantinople, Alexandria
Name the capital of the Sultanate of Rum at the time of the First Crusade - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Nicaea
Name the castle used in the siege of Tripoli - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mount Pilgrim
Name the emir of Aleppo during the First Crusade - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ridwan
Name the emir of Damascus during the First Crusade - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Duqaq
Name the first city captured by the First Crusaders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nicaea
Name the most important Church in Constantinople - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hagia
Sophia
Name the Seljuk Sultan who was victorious at Manzikert - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Alp
Arslan
What did al-Sulami do in 1105? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅He wrote the 'Book of Jihad'
and encouraged a unified response to the Latin invasion of the Near East
What did Kilij Arslan call himself the Sultan of Rum? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Anatolia had been captured by Turks from the Byzantines (i.e. 'Rome'-
'Rum')
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS.
According to Tom Asbridge what happened in Antioch after the finding of the Holy
Lance? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The leaders still tried to negotiated a surrender with
Kerbogha and only committed to battle when he refused
Define 'purgatory' - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In between Heaven and Hell- like Hell but
temporary
Describe Pope Urban's background - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅He was from a French
noble family
Explain 'second sons theory' and given an example to support it - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Belief that First Crusaders were mostly landless second sons who hoped
to gain land and titles (e.g. Bohemond or Baldwin of Boulogne)
Explain what a 'vassal' is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅someone who swears fealty to
someone above them in the feudal system
Give an example of penance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pilgrimage, donating money,
flagellation, crusading
Give an example which shows the First Crusaders acting like pilgrims - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Expelling women, walking barefoot, wearing sign of Cross, commitment
to reaching Jerusalem
How did Robert of Normandy raise the funds needed for his crusade? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅He mortgaged his Duchy to his brother (King William II of England)
How much did it cost a knight to go on crusade? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅4-5 times
their annual income
How were the first crusaders able to capture Jerusalem so quickly? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Good leadership from Godfrey, use of siege towers, help of Genoese
fleet, reinforcements had to come from Cairo
In 1100, Baldwin I was warned of an attack by Duqaq by who? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Fakhr al-Mulk (Tripoli)
, In what year did Duqaq of Damascus die? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1104
Most important pilgrimage site for Muslims? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mecca
Name a first crusader who fits 'Second sons theory' - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Bohemond of Taranto/ Baldwin of Boulogne
Name a first crusader who had clear spiritual motives - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Robert of Normandy/ Robert of Flanders
Name Bohemond's nephew - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Tancred de Hauteville
Name the 1104 battle which was a huge defeat for Edessa and Antioch - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Harran
Name the 5 parts of the 'pentarchy' - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rome, Jerusalem,
Antioch, Constantinople, Alexandria
Name the capital of the Sultanate of Rum at the time of the First Crusade - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Nicaea
Name the castle used in the siege of Tripoli - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mount Pilgrim
Name the emir of Aleppo during the First Crusade - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ridwan
Name the emir of Damascus during the First Crusade - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Duqaq
Name the first city captured by the First Crusaders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nicaea
Name the most important Church in Constantinople - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hagia
Sophia
Name the Seljuk Sultan who was victorious at Manzikert - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Alp
Arslan
What did al-Sulami do in 1105? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅He wrote the 'Book of Jihad'
and encouraged a unified response to the Latin invasion of the Near East
What did Kilij Arslan call himself the Sultan of Rum? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Anatolia had been captured by Turks from the Byzantines (i.e. 'Rome'-
'Rum')
