The first crusade

Year 8 History

  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to

    Middle Ages

  • Doomseday Book
    Jan 1, 1085

    Doomseday Book

    CAUSE: In 1085, King William I , The Conqueror, wanted to find out about all the land in his new kingdom: who owned which property, who else lived there, how much the land was worth and therefore how much tax he could charge, so he sent official government inspectors around England to ask questions in local courts.
    EFFECT:Everybody had to pay their tax to the king. This meant that no lord or other nobleman could build up enough money to raise a private army to challenge William.
  • Pope Urban ii's speech
    Jan 1, 1095

    Pope Urban ii's speech

    CAUSE:After the Roman Emperor Constantine's converstaion Christananity, he and his mother began to inspect the recovery of several important Christian sites; which included the newly discovered tomb of Christ.
    EFFECT: as myths of attacks and wickedness on pilgrims returning form the "Holy Land" spread throughout Europe, along with the stories of violation to Christian Holy relics in Jerusalim caused a great outrage among European Christians.
  • The First Crusade
    Jan 1, 1099

    The First Crusade

    The First Crusade began in the year of 1099
    The cause of the First Crusade was the war between Christians and Moslems which centered around the city of Jerusalem and the Holy places of Palestine.
    The effects of the First Crusade were resulted by causing many effects on the Medieval life, Some manners that were effected include commerce, intellectual development and material development.
  • The Third Crudade
    Jan 1, 1192

    The Third Crudade

    CAUSE:For nearly a hundred years, since the great success of the First Crusade, much of what is today Israel was controlled by heavily armed Christian horsemen.
    EFFECT: Launched in 1189, the Third Crusade was called because of The Muslim recapture of Jerusalem in 1187 and the defeat of Palestinian knights at Hittin. It was unsuccessful. Frederick I Barbarossa drowned before he reached the Holy Land and Philip II Augustus of France returned home after a small period of time
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  • The signing of Magna Carta
    Jan 1, 1215

    The signing of Magna Carta

    CAUSED: England had owned land in France for many years. The barons had provided the king with both money and men to defend this territory. Traditionally, the king had always consulted the barons before raising taxes ,and demanding more men for military service ,as they had to provide the men. This was all part of the Feudal System.
    EFFECT:It led to a great change in the perception and the power of the king.
  • The Bubonic Plague reaches England
    Jan 1, 1348

    The Bubonic Plague reaches England

    CAUSE: In 1347 a Genoese ship from Caffa, on the Black Sea, came ashore at Messina. The crew of the ship, few alive, carried with them a deadly cargo, a disease so deadly that it could kill in a matter of hours. It is thought that the disease originated in the Far East, and was spread along major trade routes to Caffa. When it became clear that ships from the East carried the plague, Messina closed its port.
    EFFECT: millions of people had died from the Plague.
  • Killing of Jews in Strasbourg
    Feb 1, 1349

    Killing of Jews in Strasbourg

    CAUSE: In 1348 in Europe there came a overwhellming plague that was reported to have conclusively killed twenty-five million people. By the Autumn time of that year the rumor was around that these deaths were caused by an international scheme of Jewry to contaminate / poison Christendom.
    EFFECT: The Christians believed it was the Jews who caused the plague and so they killed them all.
  • Recurrence of plague
    Jan 1, 1369

    Recurrence of plague

  • The Battle of Agincourt
    Jan 1, 1415

    The Battle of Agincourt

    CAUSE: The battle of Agincourt took place in a farmer's field in the north of France on October 25, 1415 and was one in a series of meetings between France and England that are now known as the hundred year war.
    AFFECT: The French had arranged their battalions between two small walls. one lying close to Agincourt, and the others to Tramecourt. It was a narrow place, and very beneficial for the English, and, on the contrary, very ruinous for the French, for the said French had been all night o
  • victory of henry tudor
    Jan 1, 1485

    victory of henry tudor

  • Battle of Nagashino
    Jun 28, 1575

    Battle of Nagashino

    cause -
    Oda Nobunaga's Son In-Law, started the battle on June the 28th, 1575 by invading Tokugawa Ieyasu's district and captured the small castle named Nagashino. Tokugawa couldn't afford to lose Nagashino. It was the clan's furthermost defensive screen. But he got a big problem involving maths. Even by relaxing his usual for enrollment, even by means of general mobilization, the Tokugawas could only assemble 8,000 warriors to defend their colony.
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  • The Great Plague of London

    The Great Plague of London

    CAUSE: The Great Plague of London was andisruption of bubonic plague that hit London and was especially violent in the hot months of August and September. In one week, 7,165 people died of the plague.The disease was driftin by fleas that lived on black rats. Its effects were terrible.
    EFFECT: The Great Plague killed among 75,000 and 100,000 of London’s fastly increasing population of about 460,000.
  • The Meiji Restoration

    The Meiji Restoration

    The Meiji Restoration is one of the indivisual most crucial events in Modern Japanese history.
    Cause - For more then two centuries before the restoration the Tokugawa clan controlled Japan, its power and influence secure. But, with the expected of the kurobune, Commodore Perry and other barbarians in the 1850s, opposition to Edo began to arose.
    Affect - This renewal highly affected the events of history within Japan likewise Japan’s connection with their foreigners.