Many peasants and lesser lords joined the various Crusades. For the peasants, there was an opportunity to see distant lands, to complete a religious pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to fight ‘heretics’, which could help you to achieve salvation after death. Knowing the dangers of disease and depredation and the possibility of being killed in battle, if you had been a serf in Europe during the middle ages, would you have gone on Crusade? Explain why you chose to go or stay.
Discussion: Effects of Relationship and Family Violence One in four
Discussion: Effects of Relationship and Family Violence One in four women will be a victim of partner violence in her lifetime. One-third of female homicides are at the hands of a partner. Boys who witness relationship violence are twice as likely to abuse their partners. The witnessing of relationship violence