The Jews In The

Crusades

By: Juan Martin Contreras, Juan Jose del

Alcazar and Mateo Ribadeneira

Editors: Juan Martin Contreras JJ del Alcazar Mateo Ribadeneira Contact:

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Questions: Who is your group? (Historical background) What is the significance of Jerusalem to your group? From your perspective, what caused the crusades? Consider economic, religious and social forces.

What was the impact of the crusades in your group?

What were the major events that impact your group?

What is your perception of the other groups?

1. Who is your group? (Historical background) My group is the Jewish people they are a religious group that has 5,750 years of history. They have evolved a lot in time like in customs, culture and in ethical system. His religion is called " Judaism" they are approximately 14 million of followers all around the world that is a little number compared to Christianity or Catholicism. Jewish people also have many traditions and customs that have evolved over the years but the followers keep on track of them. The event that is most known in the history of Jewish people is of what happened to them in the world war 2 with all the war, deaths and the concentration camps.

2. What is the significance of Jerusalem to your group? The significance of the Jewish people of Jerusalem is important because they pay the king every year some money so they would be the only group and no other dyers could go there. Also it is important to them because Judaism make Jerusalem a more powerful city than it was by making it a holy city over 3 thousand years ago at the middle of the period of time of there history. I think it is important because in this way Jerusalem becomes a very critical and powerful thing for them (Jews).

From your perspective, what caused the crusades? Consider economic, religious and social forces.

What caused the crusades where some reasons? At first the Byzantine Empire asked the pope for help because the Muslims were going to attack them. So pope Urban II thought about this and accepted the request of the Byzantine Empire because of some religious reasons. Some religious reasons were that Pope Urban II could use this crusade to take back the Holly land that was Jerusalem; also that he maybe could unite the Byzantine Empire to Roman Catholic again. Some economic reasons were that people that went to the crusades could make trading with Muslim people for goods and could make their business there. A social impact that the crusades had was that it made people from Rome to go to the crusades to search new opportunities there in Muslim territory.

What was the impact of the crusades in your group?

The impact of the crusades on the Jews was the following. The thing was that they had to pay a tax for helping the Christians on the crusades. Also that some Jews that lived in Muslim territory were accused for helping the Christians. So the Jews now had two enemies that were the Muslims and the Jews.

What were the major events that impact your group?

Some of the major events of Jewish people were that the Franks kill and massacred to the Jews in Germany, France and England in 1096 during the People’s Crusade. Other could be that some people was doing a law that is anti-Jews, other is that a men call Godfrey de Bouillon said that he would revenged the blood of Jesus with the Jewish until they died. The purpose of these events was to extinguish the Jewish people. Here we can see the hate that many people had against the Jews.

What is your perception of the other groups?

Muslims and Jewish have a good relationship, one of the reasons was because they got together to fight against Franks, in the first crusade, to defend Jerusalem. Franks and Jewish didn’t have a good relationship because Franks killed many of them, until the point of almost extinguish them. The byzantine and the Jewish never have a good relationship, the Jews lived apart of the Greeks (byzantine) and the byzantine were always mean with them. There was hatred between both groups, the Greeks treated Jewish really bad, there was a lot of oppression against them. One example is that any Jew wasn’t allowed to ride on horseback; the only exception was the king’s physician. Also the Greeks used to throw their dirty water at the Jewish doors.

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