Crusades
The Crusades
Home Activities:
- Time to march again; organize the neighborhood children’s crusade. But, don’t forget to remind your child of the defeat of the crusaders and of the sack of Constantinople; facts left out of many Western histories.
- Is your child’s room a mess? Compare that to the pillaging of Constantinople and see how much time and effort it takes to get all in order again.
- Let your child see you “steal” several of his prize possessions and hide them away; feel the grief and sadness together (then return the “lovies”).
- Visit the Walters again; see the suits of armor and other artifacts from the Middle Ages in the West.
- Build a castle from blocks or poster board.
- Have a “feudal day” with girls dressed in long skirts and tall, pointed hats, boys in armor and shields, no electricity, no silverware except a knife, roast your dinner in the fireplace or over the grill.
- Try a visit to the Medieval Times at the mall. Watch the old “Robin Hood” movie together; Richard the Lion-hearted was gone because of the Crusades.
Prayer: Lord, help us never to hurt others in Your name.
Can you put these events in the right order, 1-16? Try a timeline, complete with pictures:
_____ French children sold as slaves.
_____ Pope Urban calls on Christians to take Jerusalem back from Moslems.
_____ Crusaders steal riches of Constantinople.
_____ Mohammed born in Mecca.
_____ Richard the Lionheart talks to Saladin.
_____ French children march to the sea to board ships for the Holy Land.
_____ Third Crusade with Richard, Frederick, and Philip sets out.
_____ Jerusalem captured back from Moslems the first time.
_____ Richard the Lionheart captured and imprisoned.
_____ People sew crosses on their tunics.
_____ Moslems capture Jerusalem for the first time.
_____ Frederick Red Beard of Germany drowned.
_____ Pirates capture French children at the seashore.
_____ Crusaders build castles in Jerusalem.
_____ Crusaders attack Constantinople.
_____ Saladin allows Third Crusaders into Jerusalem in peace.
THE CRUSADES