Exercises on the history of Jerusalem

Throughout its historical trajectory, the city of Jerusalem was conquered and occupied by different peoples. Among the peoples who conquered Jerusalem, select the INCORRECT alternative:

a) Quotes

b) Sasanians

c) Persians

d) Jebuseus

e) Hebrews

In 1099, Jerusalem was conquered by Christian armies, which had been sent by the Franks to Palestine during the First Crusade. The call for the Crusades was carried out after the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I requested help from which pope?

a) Alexander VI

b) Urban II

c) Leo X

d) Pius XII

e) Gregory VI

After the First Arab-Israeli War, fought in 1948, the city of Jerusalem was occupied by Israelis and Jordanians. The city remained that way until the Israelis took control of the city during the:

a) Yom Kippur War

b) Six Day War

c) War of Suez

d) Second Arab-Israeli War

e) Gulf War

From the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, both Jerusalem and Palestine began to receive an increasing number of Jews. The growth of the Jewish population in Palestine and Jerusalem is related to:

a) the diaspora

b) Orthodox Judaism

c) Zionism

d) Social Darwinism

e) socialism

LETER A

Among the aforementioned peoples, the only ones who did not conquer Jerusalem were the Scythians, a people who inhabited the Iranian plateau region and the steppes of Central Asia. All the others mentioned dominated Jerusalem at some point in its history:the Sasanians in the 5th century AD, the Persians, Jebusites and Hebrews in different periods of antiquity.

LETER B

Pope Urban II was responsible for calling the First Crusade, during the Council of Clermont, held in 1095. The call for the First Crusade took place through a request for help from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I in the war against the Turks. Pope Urban II saw in the request an opportunity to reunite the two churches (Catholic and Orthodox) and to channel the violence of the European nobility against a common enemy.

LETER B

In 1967 the Six-Day War was fought, in which Israel fought a combination of forces from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. As its name reveals, this war lasted six days. In it, the Israelis managed to considerably expand their territory, conquering, for example, East Jerusalem, a portion of the city that had been in Jordanian hands since 1948.

LETER C

The growth of Jews in Palestine and Jerusalem is directly linked to the rise of Zionism. This political movement was created by a Hungarian Jew who went on to defend the need to create a national state for Jews in Palestine. Historically, this land had been inhabited by Jews but was abandoned with the diaspora.