Effects of the Crusades on Europe

• Economic expansion – increased trade with the Middle East and Byzantine Empire

• Growth of Italian trading families.• Growth of money economy• Increased power of the monarchs.• Increased power of the Church• Wider world view• Reconquista in Spain – Muslims

and Jews forced to leave or convert.

Warm Up: Black Death

1. Open your textbook and read pages 336 and use the map to answer the following question on the BLACK DEATH:

2. List three large cities which were totally or partially spared by the plague and three large cities which were seriously affected by the plague. (Write this question before you answer.)

The Black Death

The Black Death

The Black Death 2

Black Death Power Point Slide 1 – Define Bubonic

Plague and explain its causes. How is it spread?

Slide 2 – When and where did the plague strike during the Middle Ages? Where did it begin? Who was hardest hit? How many died?

Slide 3 – Social and Economic Consequences: 1. Explain the labor shortage that occurred and how it changed Europe. 2. Define and explain the outbreak of anti-Semitism that occurred.