Code:79664775
| Time remaining: 2 days 5 hours 32 minutes Compensation: | $3.60 / Page | Total: | $14.40 | Number of pages: | 4 (Double Spaced) | Number of sources: | 3 |
Deadline: December 13 22:25 Order type: | Essay | Category: | History | Academic level: | Undergraduate | Style: | MLA | | Preparing |
Preferred language style: English (U.S.)
First Crusade:
My professor assign us to do an essay and he gave us two statements that we have to argue in both the pros and cons of the first crusade focusing on what happened and what did the crusades did to the jewish, hungarians, greeks and arabs.
The two statements are:
1- Crusades was a military expansion of Europe.
2- crusade were a disruption …show more content…
It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Islamic …show more content…
All versions, except that in the Gesta Francorum, generally agree that Urban talked about the violence of European society and the necessity of maintaining the Peace of God; about helping the Greeks, who had asked for assistance; about the crimes being committed against Christians in the east; and about a new kind of war, an armed pilgrimage, and of rewards in heaven, where remission of sins was offered to any who might die in the undertaking.[33] They do not all specifically mention Jerusalem as the ultimate goal; however, it has been argued that Urban's subsequent preaching reveals that he expected the expedition to reach Jerusalem all along.[34] According to one version of the speech, the enthusiastic crowd responded with cries of Deus vult! ("God wills it!"). However, other versions of the speech do not include this