were so strong was because they had so many people join the expedition. "On November 27‚ 1095 at the Council of Clermont‚ he [Pope Urban] delivered the address which led so many thousands to take the cross" (Brundage 7). But the large numbers of Crusaders willing to fight was not always a good thing. When Urban said that rich and poor alike should go‚ he probably only meant that knights should not plead poverty as an excuse...he never intended that penniless rabbles should swarm eastward into the
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continued over the past 100 years. European lords slaved to keep control over the crusader states being such as Edessa. The Holy Order of Knights fought back when a crusader state was charged against. Emperor Conrad III and King Louis VII were the two powerful monarchs associated. They desired to overtake Damascus instead of defending Edessa so the plan was unsuccessful and majority of the crusaders went home. The crusaders who remained defended Jerusalem. For a year‚ King Richard kept trying to obtain
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and resurrected. For the Muslim‚ Jerusalem was the place where Muhammad had ascended to heaven. For the Jews‚ it was their God ’s city and it was the sit of Solomon ’s temple. The main idea of the First Crusade was good against evil‚ in which the crusaders were on the good side and the Muslims and Jews on the evil side; after all they were the one who killed Jesus. The two main leaders that called for the First Crusade were Alexius I‚ emperor of the Byzantine Empire‚ and Pope Urban II. The First Crusade
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moving to Egypt at the age of twenty-six. There he started his own sultanate which at its height included Egypt‚ Syria‚ Mesopotamia‚ Hejaz‚ Yemen‚ and parts of North Africa. He is well known for his recapture of Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187 after the crusaders were defeated in the Battle of Hattin. He was also able to repel the Third Crusade that was headed by Richard the Lion heart king of England. Saladin is one of the most prominent leaders that ruled over the Muslim world. Salah al
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Crusaders were made up of military units of Roman Catholics from all over Western Europe; they had no unified leader (Daniels). 5. Crusaders gave rise to a number of Knightly Orders such as the Knights Templar‚ Hospitaller‚ and the Teutonic Knights (Daniels). 6. The goal of Christian Crusaders expanded later to seizing Spain from the Moors‚ and later Eastern Europe from the Slavs and Pagans (Philips). 7. Christian Crusaders were composed of all classes of Europe
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for leadership and military prowess‚ tempered by his chivalry and merciful nature during his war against the Crusaders‚ even to the extent that propagated stories of his exploits back to the west‚ incorporating both myth and facts. Salah al-Din is an honorific title which translates to The Righteousness of the Faith from Arabic. Contents [hide] 1 Rise to power 2 Fighting the Crusaders 3 Recognition 4 Burial site 5 Saladin in media 6 Notes 7 See also 8 External links 9 References
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01.07 Collapse of an Empire Travel Journal 1. What was Justinian I’s role in the decline of the Byzantine Empire? First‚ his constant wars and the rebuilding of Constantinople after the Nika Riot caused serious financial problems for the empire. The reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia alone cost about 320‚000 pounds of gold. Second‚ Justinian left the Byzantine army scattered across the empire. Many units were occupied fighting fierce nomads. One of these groups‚ a Germanic barbarian tribe called
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three crusades were led by the heads of the royal families of Europe). * Later‚ merchants join Crusades to try to gain wealth through trade. First Crusade: 1096-1099 * Pope promises Crusaders who die a place in heaven * First Crusade: three armies gather at Constantinople in 1097 * Crusaders capture Jerusalem in 1099 * Captured lands along
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behind them” (Document1.) Christians and Muslims participated in the fight in the Middle East. Massacring entire communities occurred when the crusaders turned their furry towards the Jews because of their loss in the war. This makes it a social impact. In document three‚ another social impact‚ the author describes the motivation behind the Crusaders desire to fight in these battles. Some reasons the Crusades attracted the people was the interest only in fighting for Christianity while others
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regain the Middle East in the name of "crusaders" which means "marked with the cross". This was the beginning of the Europe’s waking up to use their growing power to look outside Europe and dominate more lands for religious‚ economic and political reasons. As many as 600‚000 crusaders left Europe and marched overland to Jerusalem to "save" the Holy Land of Christianity despite its many difficulties and danger facing them. So then why would all these many crusaders have left their home‚ family behind
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