Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 10

Instructions

This exercise asks you to assess the relationship between conclusions and evidence. Identify which of the following conclusions are supported by the specific piece of evidence. Click yes for those pieces of evidence that support the conclusion and no for those that do not.

Conclusion A

Differences in religious belief and practice were an important motivation for Western European Crusaders.

  1. Question 10.35

    Evidence 1: “I know not whether by a judgment of the Lord, or by some error of mind, they rose in a spirit of cruelty against the Jewish people scattered throughout these cities and slaughtered them without mercy, especially in the Kingdom of Lorraine, asserting it to be the beginning of their expedition and their duty against the enemies of the Christian faith. — Source 10.2: Jewish Experience of the Crusades

    Evidence 1: “I know not whether by a judgment of the Lord, or by some error of mind, they rose in a spirit of cruelty against the Jewish people scattered throughout these cities and slaughtered them without mercy, especially in the Kingdom of Lorraine, asserting it to be the beginning of their expedition and their duty against the enemies of the Christian faith. — Source 10.2: Jewish Experience of the Crusades

    A.
    B.

  2. Question 10.36

    Evidence 2: “Alas, the images, which ought to have been adored, were trodden under foot! Alas, the relics of the holy martyrs were thrown into unclean places! . . . [T]he divine body and blood of Christ was spilled upon the ground or thrown about. They snatched the precious reliquaries [containers for sacred relics], thrust into their bosoms the ornaments which these contained, and used the broken remnants for pans and drinking cups, precursors of Anti-Christ.” — Source 10.5: A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades

    Evidence 2: “Alas, the images, which ought to have been adored, were trodden under foot! Alas, the relics of the holy martyrs were thrown into unclean places! . . . [T]he divine body and blood of Christ was spilled upon the ground or thrown about. They snatched the precious reliquaries [containers for sacred relics], thrust into their bosoms the ornaments which these contained, and used the broken remnants for pans and drinking cups, precursors of Anti-Christ.” — Source 10.5: A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades

    A.
    B.

  3. Question 10.37

    Evidence 3: “I paid a visit to the tomb of John [the Baptist in Damascus]. . . . After saying my prayers . . . I entered a church. Inside were about ten old men, their bare heads as white as combed cotton. They were facing east. . . . They gave hospitality to those who needed it. The sight of their piety touched my heart.” — Usmah Ibn Munqidh (Source 10.6A)

    Evidence 3: “I paid a visit to the tomb of John [the Baptist in Damascus]. . . . After saying my prayers . . . I entered a church. Inside were about ten old men, their bare heads as white as combed cotton. They were facing east. . . . They gave hospitality to those who needed it. The sight of their piety touched my heart.” — Usmah Ibn Munqidh (Source 10.6A)

    A.
    B.

Conclusion B

Crusaders were motivated by personal gain of wealth.

  1. Question 10.38

    Evidence 1: Source 10.4B: How Jerusalem Was Captured by Saladin

    Evidence 1: Source 10.4B: How Jerusalem Was Captured by Saladin

    A.
    B.

  2. Question 10.39

    Evidence 2: Urban II’s plea to Western European knights to go on crusade as recorded in Source 10.1: A Western Christian Perspective

    Evidence 2: Urban II’s plea to Western European knights to go on crusade as recorded in Source 10.1: A Western Christian Perspective

    A.
    B.

  3. Question 10.40

    Evidence 3: Nicetas Choniates’s description of the actions of the Crusaders who seized Constantinople in 1204, as recounted in Source 10.5: A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades

    Evidence 3: Nicetas Choniates’s description of the actions of the Crusaders who seized Constantinople in 1204, as recounted in Source 10.5: A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades

    A.
    B.

Conclusion C

Crusaders treated Jews, Muslims, and Eastern Christians similarly.

  1. Question 10.41

    Evidence 1: The opening passages of Urban II’s call for crusade in Source 10.1: A Western Christian Perspective

    Evidence 1: The opening passages of Urban II’s call for crusade in Source 10.1: A Western Christian Perspective

    A.
    B.

  2. Question 10.42

    Evidence 2: The looting of Constantinople following its capture by Crusaders in 1204, as recounted in Source 10.5: A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades as compared to the accounts of looting in Source 10.2: Jewish Experience of the Crusades and Source 10.3: The Complete History

    Evidence 2: The looting of Constantinople following its capture by Crusaders in 1204, as recounted in Source 10.5: A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades as compared to the accounts of looting in Source 10.2: Jewish Experience of the Crusades and Source 10.3: The Complete History

    A.
    B.

  3. Question 10.43

    Evidence 3: Source 10.4A: The Looting of Jerusalem as compared to the accounts of looting in Source 10.2: Jewish Experience of the Crusades and Source 10.5: The Sack of Constantinople.

    Evidence 3: Source 10.4A: The Looting of Jerusalem as compared to the accounts of looting in Source 10.2: Jewish Experience of the Crusades and Source 10.5: The Sack of Constantinople.

    A.
    B.