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The Crusades (Jerusalem (A very important city to Muslims, Christians and…
The Crusades
Jerusalem
A very important city to Muslims, Christians and Jews.
Generally important because it is connected to there faith really heavily. for Muslims the quran, for Christians the bible.Etc.
When the Muslim Turks took control of Jerusalem in 1071, they began to harass and even kill visiting Christian pilgrims. (pilgrim is one who travels to a sacred place to show devotion to his or her faith).
Jerusalem is a holy land which means it is a land in the middle Est which has significant importance for Christians Muslims and Jews.
Saladin Ayyubi
known as Salah ad-Din or Saladin, was the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish ethnicity, Saladin led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant.v
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The fourth crusade 1202-4 started out against the Turks, but ended up as a pillage of christian cities. (Pillage: to steal or plunder using force, especially during war.
The First Crusade
Basically, Christians fought against non-Christians AND heretics (a Christian who holds views that conflict with official church meetings.
Reasons, why so many knights joined the first crusade, is that the pope promised them a chance to gain wealth, power, land and knighthood. they were also promised eternal life in heaven.
The knights took over city after city including the Holy land, Nicaea, Antioch and, finally, Jerusalem.
the first crusade was Led by Geoffrey of Bouillon, Raymond of Saint-Gilles, Bohemond of Taranto and Hugh of Vermandois; four large Christian armies left the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople.
Turks
the Turks conquered Jerusalem multiple times and after it was taken by enemies. However in the end of the crusades, they had it to themselves.
A crusade was a series of wars fought throughout Europe and the Middle East between the eleventh and thirteen centuries
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It is reported that the crusades lasted 200 years because the Christians and Muslims were fighting over Jerusalem.
The Ninth Crusade, which is sometimes grouped with the Eighth Crusade, is commonly considered to be the last major medieval Crusade to the Holy Land. It took place in 1271–1272.
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The crusades are known as each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
Today, people from Palestine and Israel are in war zone and are both fighting to conquer Jerusalem.
Although the crusades have ended, wars are still prevalent.
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