“The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups”. In all‚ eight major Crusade expeditions occurred between 1096 and 1291. The bloody‚ violent and often ruthless conflicts propelled the status of European Christians‚ making them major players in the fight for land in the Middle East. In my personal opinion I think that the results of the crusades were negative.First off‚ how the crusades
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The strongest evidence of this is the Crusades‚ which served to reclaim the ‘holy-land’ for Christendom‚ and also served to create a divide between the three major religions in the west that would later have wide reaching effects. The Crusades are a major turning point of wester culture in that they changed the values and structure of Europe‚ the birthplace of all western culture‚ and in that they would be christianity’s last holy wars. The Crusades changed the fundaments of western culture by
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The First Crusade What was the cause for Western Europe to implement the Crusades? To answer this‚ we must go back the 11th century when the Seljuk Turks made their presence known in the east by conquering Armenia‚ Syria‚ and Palestine. They soon moved on to Jerusalem where they burned down Christian churches and murdered the clergy and many Christian pilgrims visiting there. Byzantium quickly saw the Seljuk Turks as a threat‚ and in 1071‚ met them at the Battle of Manzikert in Asia Minor. The
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Impact of the Crusades The Crusades were a series of nine military campaigns by European Christians to regain Holy Land from the Muslims‚ in which about 1.5 million lives were lost all together. The first Crusade was organized by Pope Urban II in 1095‚ and the last being in 1289. Pope Urban II originally intended to recruit followers by saying that your sins would be relieved if you helped regain Holy Land from Muslims‚ however‚ these intentions quickly turned into bad intentions when people
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Conflict Analysis Sheet Name of Conflict: The Crusades Time period: Crusades took place from 1096 – 1270 Type of Conflict: Religious conflict and Health conflict Underlying causes: The reason for the crusades was a war between Christians and Muslims which centered around the city of Jerusalem. The City of Jerusalem held a Holy significance to the Christian religion. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem commemorated the hill of crucifixion and the tomb of Christ’s burial and was visited
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Crusades Please create two journal entries. For the first journal entry you will write as if you are a Crusader. You should discuss the long journey it took for you to reach Jerusalem‚ your reasons for participating in the Crusades‚ and any fears you might have. For the second journal entry‚ you will take on the role of a muslim living in the city of Jerusalem writing about the Crusaders and the attack on the city. 1. Crusader- Dear journal‚ My days on the ship were ever lasting they seemed
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known as the crusades. The word crusade comes from the Latin word crux‚ meaning "cross." The Christian soldiers‚ called Crusaders‚ wore the cross as a symbol of their religion. The crusades began in 1090’s and continued in the 11th and 12th centuries. The main cause for the holy wars was because of Pope Urban II‚ he wanted to capture the sacred places in the Holy Land from the Muslims who lived there‚ so it was intended as a war to right wrongs done against Christianity. Why would
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The Crusades The crusades were a major part in the history of the middle ages‚ many people died for what they believed in. The crusades was a war between the Christian and Muslim faith. The Christians believed that the Muslim religion was growing too fast and was going to take over the Christian faith. Many of the battles were to take control of the Holy Land Jerusalem‚ and the battles were always bloody and many people died. Many of the people who fought in the crusades died for what they believed
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~~~FIRST CRUSADE - After the Normans had settled in France and conquered England‚ both France and England‚ and also the Holy Roman Empire‚ were stronger than they had been since the time of Charlemagne. Their kings and queensbegan to think‚ as he had‚ of reconquering the whole Mediterranean and recreating the Roman Empire. In particular‚ they wanted to take Jerusalem‚ the city ofJesus Christ‚ away from the Islamic Fatimids who were ruling it. In 1095 AD Pope Urban made a great speech at Clermont
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------------------------------------------------- CRUSADES The Crusades where a sequence of wars starting in 1095‚ and ending in 1291. A total of nine Crusades. It was a battle between the Christians and the Muslims‚ both sides having the same goal of taking the holy land (Jerusalem). The cause of the crusades was in 1095; the Arabs took control of Jerusalem‚ and shut off all the Christian and Jewish pilgrims from entering. Of course‚ different religions have different beliefs‚ and they both
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