The Crusades

Pope Urban II

The crusades was not a holy war. Constantinople was conquered by the Turks in fourteen fifty three, a lot of people wanted to join the fourth crusade more than thirty five thousand and that is a lot of people. Pope Urban the II wanted to unite Europe. The Peasant Crusades were not knights they were poor people. Religion shaped the world. The Crusaders were miraculously successful. The Crusades were not primarily military operations they were pilgrimages. The Crusades were not an example of early European colonizations of the middle east even though they did create Europeanish kingdoms. a thousand people wanted to join the first crusade and that is a lot but the fourth crusade has a lot more people then the first one. The Crusades were a series of religious expeditionary wars blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church, with the stated goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem. Several hundred thousand soldiers became Crusaders by taking vows the Pope granted them plenary indulgence. The second crusade was a total disaster for the crusaders. They lost in Anatolia and at damascus. Their one success was the capture of Lisbon, but they didn't make any progress in the holy land. In modern usage the term crusade, or crusade against, is often used metaphorically to refer to any idealistically or ideologically motivated campaign without religious connotations, as in Crusade Against Cancer. The Crusaders actually never took back any of the holy land. The best way to get people to unite is to give them a common enemy. Religious Context The Holy Land is significant in Christianity because of the land's association as the place of nativity, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, whom Christians regard as the Saviour or Messiah. The origins of the Crusades were the Christian response to the Islamic invasion of Gaul earlier in the Middle Ages, as well as the deterioration of the Byzantine Empire caused by a new wave of Turkish Muslim attacks. The Crusades were not an example of early European colonizations of the middle east even though they did create Europeanish kingdoms. The Peasant Crusades were not knights they were poor people. Religion shaped the world. The Crusades were enemies with the Muslims, the enemies general was a Kurdish person named Saladin. The crusaders comprised military units of Roman Catholics from all over western Europe, and were not under unified command. Religious Context The Holy Land is significant in Christianity because of the land's association as the place of nativity, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, whom Christians regard as the Saviour or Messiah. Saladin died in 1192. The Crusaders made a deal with the venicians, if they caught the rebellious city of Zara, which was christian, they would give them transport. .The Crusades were a series of religious expeditionary wars blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church, with the stated goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem. The Crusaders were defeated by the Persians. The Crusaders failed to capture Zara. One of the leaders of the Christians drowned in a river while he was bathing. Richard The Lionheart was in the crusades. Muslims sacked the christian cities. The Christians called the western Europeans for help against the Muslims. The Political Situation Palestine had been conquered by the Roman Empire in 63 BCE. The third Crusades was the famous. The Crusades were a complete failure. The Crusades Liberated Jerusalem. Pilgrimages kept on stealing stuff on the way. he Reconquista, a long period of wars in Spain and Portugal Iberia where Christian forces reconquered the peninsula from Muslims, is closely tied to the Crusades. The Crusades were enemies with the Muslims, the enemies general was a Kurdish person named Saladin and he was a amazing general. The Crusades were, in part, an outlet for an intense religious piety which rose up in the late 11th century among the lay public. A crusader would, after pronouncing a solemn vow, receive a cross from the hands of the pope or his legates, and was thenceforth considered a "soldier of the Church". This was partly because of the Investiture Controversy, which had started around 1075 and was still on-going during the First Crusade. The fourth Crusades doomed the Byzantine empire. Jerusalem in particular holds a significance in Islam as it holds it to be the site of the ascension into heaven of the prophet Muhammad whom Muslims believe to be the foremost prophet of Allah and Jerusalem is often regarded as the third most sacred site in Islam.