Crusades- notes

• The first crusade, few men made it to Jerusalem
• Children's crusade- many were sent off to their deaths
• Europeans did hold city of Jerusalem but were kicked out in the beginning of the 13th century
• France becomes the kingdom of France
• France was split into smaller kingdoms held by the Francs
• Capetians unified France
• Normans rule until 1144, replaced by Plantashianas
• Close ties between Capetians and Church
• French art and architecture come over to England because of close ties
• Islam spreads from Saudi Arabia to North Africa
• Spain was taken over my Moores, ruled for 700 years
• Library burns
• Constantinople taken over by Muslims
• All the knowledge gets taken away
• North Africa colonized by Muslims, the knowledge base of Western Europe starts to shrink
• Crusades are the worst political option in this situation
• Mistake in Crusades was trying to get Jerusalem back
• Made Muslims into an unnecessary enemy
• Plunges Europe into the dark ages
• Islamic world is going for a Renaissance 
• have all the knowledge of the ancient world
• Most important- Aristotle
• French have crusade in to Moorish Spain
• Europeans realize while they have been slaving away for their own goals at home, and steadily losing knowledge of these Greek philosophers, the Moores in Spain have vast libraries of everything
• Aristotle claims that he invented logic
• Aristotle demonstrated that logic defeats superstition
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