A crusade was a military expedition addressed by Pope Urban II to reclaim Palestine from the Muslims. Taking back Palestine was the main reason why Crusades occurred. There are several reasons why people went on Crusades. Since Jesus had lived and died there‚ the Church thought Palestine belonged to them. Second‚ the motivation as to why Christians went on the Crusades consisted of fighting for honor and probably wanted to be known more by their people‚ to become a model for their children or maybe
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three would persecute‚ rape‚ and even kill each other in order to own the Holy Land. The Crusades had a more negative than positive effect on the world because people all over the world were persecuted for their religion. One example as to why the crusades overall had a negative effect on the world is because many Christians and Muslims all over the world were persecuted. Pope Urban II writes in his Call to Crusade speech‚ “Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows… What shall I say of the abominable
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Motives Behind the Crusades The Crusades were more the result of ulterior motives of benefit‚ rather than the desire to wipe out the Muslims. The Pope at the time‚ Pope Urban‚ wanted the Crusades for his own benefit. The knights and had also gone on the Crusades for themselves. Everyday laymen also went on the Crusades to benefit themselves. Merchants went to profit themselves as well. Christians and Muslims at some points in history were even able to live in harmony. The Crusades was not an example
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The Crusade is a series of events that occurred to the end of the 11th Century to the late 12th Century that consisted of thousands of devout christian followers. There were seven Crusades in total that had been established by Pope Urban II in 1095 as a response to the advance of Muslim forces in the “Holy Land” known as the Mediterranean or middle east in today’s society. These Crusades were an attempt to cleanse or stop the advancement of Muslims in the Mediterranean‚ many christians fled to Pope
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens in 1912 in Monument Valley with Indiana Jones as a boy scout who steals the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters to put it in a museum. After the police force Indiana to give the cross back‚ the scene changes to a ship in the Atlantic in 1938 where Indiana finally obtains the Cross of Coronado‚ and Indiana later gives it to a museum. In the United States‚ Indiana Jones meets Walter Donovon‚ a donor to the museum who tells Indiana his father‚ Henry‚ went
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any other religious sites. In hopes of stopping the continuous rule of the Turks‚ Pope Urban II called a council and was encouraged to create an army to head for Jerusalem. That army was created and told to start a “Holy War”‚ or crusade. To promote the crusades‚ the Roman Catholic Church first promised that anyone who died in their quest would go directly to Heaven. They were teaching that they were in the last days of mankind and that a messianic figure would soon come to destroy the enemy
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The crusades that happened during the Middle Ages hold a prominent place in history due to their profound impact and the unique cultural interactions that unfolded as a result of the numerous campaigns launched. These military expeditions‚ sanctioned by the papacy‚ not only shaped the political landscape of the time but also gave rise to significant religious‚ social‚ and economic transformations across Europe and the Middle East. The eleventh century was a time of great social and economic expansion
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Brady Griffin Coach Williams World History February 9‚ 2015 The fall of Jerusalem in 1187 was one of the biggest events in the history of the Crusades. It was the end of the second crusade and gave up Jerusalem to the Muslims for the first time and the Crusaders never got it back. The siege of Jerusalem in 1187 lasted from September 20 to October 2 in 1187. Balian‚ a blacksmith from Ibelin‚ the son of Godfrey was the leader of Jerusalem at this time. The leader of the Muslims‚ Saladin had tried
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Madden’s Crusades is an exposition of the crusades‚ which occurred during the Middle Ages. The Crusades were a series of military conflicts of a religious character. They remain a very important movement in human history‚ and are hard to understand‚ as they include several themes and they lasted for a long time (about two hundred years‚ and the author covers a period of about eight centuries in his chronological work). Religion is‚ of course‚ the most recurrent theme we think about the Crusades‚ but
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the Crusades and the Black Deaths have on Medieval European Society/ Did the Effects Differ According to Region? Before the Crusades began Europe was isolated in many regards‚ but especially to trade. However‚ in the beginning‚ the Crusades started as a way for nobles to get out their frustrations and to stop feuding against one another and "Pope Urban may well have believed that the Crusade[s] would reconcile and reunite Western and Eastern Christianity" (text p. 405). The first Crusade was
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