AP WORLD HISTORY!!!!
What are we saying? Listen and learn! You, girt about with the badge of knighthood, are arrogant with great pride; you rage against your brothers and cut each other in pieces. This is not the [true] soldiery of Christ which rends asunder the sheepfold of the Redeemer. The Holy Church has reserved a soldiery for herself to help her people, but you debase her wickedly to her hurt… Truly, this is the worst way, for it is utterly removed from God! If you wish to be mindful of your souls, either lay down the belt of such knighthood, or advance boldly, as knights of Christ, and rush as quickly as you can to the defense of the Eastern Church…. Under Jesus Christ, our Leader, may you struggle for your Jerusalem, in Christian battle-line, most invincible line, even more successfully than did the sons of Jacob of old- struggle, that you may assail and drive out the Turks…
From The Jerusalem History by Baldric of Dol, a monk who was at the Council of Clermont, c. 1108.
Which of the following is a long-term effect of the speech described in the above passage?
a. Christians regained control of Jerusalem and other strategic sites throughout the Middle East
b. The Byzantine Empire was strengthened by an influx of Western soldiers
c. The intensification of trade between Western Europe and the East
d. A combination of Western European soldiers and Middle Eastern Muslim soldiers was able to repel Mongol advances into Jerusalem
