Shoguns and Samuri of Japan

Read Lesson 63 ~ The Shoguns and Samurai of Japan.

Write the following history cards:

Richard the Lionhearted, Saladin, and the Third Crusade        61
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Two very chivalrous men met at war during the Third Crusade.  The one of three kings on the Third Crusade to meet Saladin, the Muslim Sultan of Egypt who had recaptured Jerusalem, Richard the Lionhearted won Saladin's reverence with his emotionally expressive courage.  Circumstances brought them to form a peace treaty, and Saladin soon afterward died.  Several years later, Richard was killed with a crossbow.

The Classic Tale of Robin Hood                                                  62
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Facts from a tombstone in Yorkshire, England, date the man's death at 1247; he was Robert, the Earl of Huntingdon.  The limited facts about him appealed to storytellers, who never tire of keeping the legends alive, which may originally have contained some truths.

For study and review, do the text work pages 363 - 366.