Historical Questions, Logically Arranged and Divided; The Companion-Book to Labberton's Outlines of History (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...day and night to bring about a crusade; prayed, sighed, and so wore himself out with grief and anger, that he sickened and died in a few weeks. 5989. Who succeeded him? Gregory VIII. 6990. What was done by Gregory VIII. to rekindle the mystic war of God? He sent legates through every country, and through them watched the progress of arming. 5991. What universal tax was imposed by him on all classes? Saladin's tithe. 5992. What was the pope's conduct? He acted as though he had been the monarch of a large, warlike, and well-administered kingdom. 5993. What was the effect of it? The effect was truly wonderful: the days of 1095 did seem to return. 5994. What old rivals vowed to abandon their quarrels and to take up the cross? Henry II. of England, and Philip Augustus of France. 5995. What influence had this on their subjects? Nearly the whole of the nobility, and a number of the lower class of people, were carried away by their example. 5996. Did Germany show as much zeal as the other nations? In Germany, now as formerly, the zeal was not so great. 5997. What awoke among the Germans the desire to go to the Holy Country? Refers to Genealogical Tables. Refers to Alphabetical List. The aged Barbarossa put on the cross, and by his ever firm and powerful will collected together a mass of nearly one hundred thousand pilgrims. Tfte Cwinter-Preparattons of the East. 5998. How was this tidings of the arming of the West received in the East? At first it was hardly believed: but when it no longer could be doubted, the ferocious war-cry of Europe was answered by a voice of defiance quite as eager. 5999. Who was, at that time, the virtual ruler of Western Asia? Saladin. 6000. Did he undervalue his antagonists? He had studied his antagonists with the eye of a true statesman, ..