HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jewish Deicide, Hector Barbossa, Rhine
19 Apr 2016
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Muhammed believed they were people of the book > fellow believers in the teachers contained in the. Allowed to continue practising their faith in churches and synagogues, could not expand or repair them. Had to pay a special tax not applied to muslims. Greco-roman learning transferred back into europe from spain, cyprus, byzantium. Muslims had conquered all of the byzantine empire. Some argues this saved western civilization from domination before it started. Pilgrimage > transported people physically and spiritually. Young, violent men were a major contributing force to european instability. Could not get a handle on the violence, might as well direct your energy on something useful. Young men with little hope of obtaining land saw opportunities to get land in the east. Knights and commoners prepared to march on jerusalem. Germany turned first on their jewish neighbours, slaughtering thousands (pogrom) Crusaders knew little about byzantine christianity and did not care. Alexius sent crusaders south to face the seljuk turks.
