How was Latin Christendom affected by Mongol expansion?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Latin Christendom
1. vulnerable
a. scare of the Mongol invasions
b. loss of the last crusader states in Syria to the Mamluks
2. revitalize the crusading movement
a. Louis IX, the king of France
b. all efforts to reignite the crusades failed
3. losses elsewhere
a. loss of Constantinople by its Latin rulers to a Byzantine revival
b. Mongols had destroyed or dominated most of the successor
states that claimed Byzantium's legacy
c. "Roman emperors" maintained the court rituals and art of
Byzantine greatness
1. recaptured the old Byzantine capital from the Crusaders
4. Latin Christendom grew on other fronts
a. extending the frontier deep into formerly pagan worlds along
the Baltic in Livonia, Estonia, Prussia, and Finland
b. Christian kingdoms seized most of the Mediterranean seaboard
of Spain and the Balearic Islands from the hands of Muslim rulers
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