This research paper is about the Crusades‚ what were they‚ who was involved‚ what were the reasons behind them‚ and more. “The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars launched by the Christian states of Europe against the Saracens.”[1] Saracens was the word used to describe a Moslem during the time of the Crusades. The great military expeditions known as the Crusades were Christian nations of Europe who got together to rescue the holy places of Palestine from the hands of the Mohammedans. “They
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The Roman Catholic Church Of the High Middle Ages The middle ages are dated to be around the 5th to 15th century. This time was characterized by hierarchies‚ chivalry‚ church rule‚ trade‚ manorialism and feudalism. This society was highly ordered with a sense of duty. One of the major components of the High Middle Ages was the rise of the church as a secular power which is dated to be around 11th -14th century (Perry 227). The church became a power that dominated the lives every person whether they
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 Geography of Lebanon Lebanon is today a small republic stretching approximately 160 kilometers along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea with a total area of 10‚452 kilometers square and an estimated population of 3‚874‚050 according to an independent 2006 estimate‚ including Palestinian refugees and foreign workers‚ mainly Syrian. Lebanese territory is dominated mostly by mountains which consist of the parallel ranges of the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon. Between the Lebanon
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Pope Urban II called for a crusade to help the Byzantines and to free the city of Jerusalem‚ many people looked at this as an opportunity. Because of the living conditions that many of the people had a big amount of people joined to get away from the famine and disease. Others left to get away from their tiresome‚ monotonous lives. However the biggest reason why people joined was to help the pope and to defend their Christian religion. Many people started to join the Crusade army‚ which a great amount
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tend to use the term Dark Ages‚ because many people died due to the Black Plague‚ crusades‚ and wars. There was also a large loss of knowledge during the Dark Ages. A large portion of the population forgot how to read and write‚ and inventions like cement were lost as well. Although‚ the majority of people in the Dark Ages forgot knowledge‚ the Dark Ages were not that dark‚ because the monasteries and the crusades worked devoutly to bring knowledge back to the Dark Ages. The monasteries worked
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Even though both these opinions are very popular‚ they are not based on facts. In reality‚ the source of this conflict can be rather found in the political situation and the ambition of church leaders‚ as it can be observed at the background of the crusades and the reconquista beginning in 11th century. Christianity and Islam are in certain aspects similar religions‚ and these important similarities should not lead to mutual opposition. Their basic creeds believed in one God that created the universe
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The arrival of the news of the fall of Edessa in 1144 triggered the call for a Second Crusade by St. Bernard in Europe (Kelly‚ 1957). Eleanor‚ now Queen‚ responded by offering “her thousands of vassals from Poitou and Aquitaine”; Eleanor would accompany her husband King Louis and it is also noted that along “with the queen came ‘many other ladies of quality’” (Kelly‚ 1957‚ p.45). Nicetas‚ a historian of the crusade‚ records on page 404 of his work that “in the army were women dressed as men‚ mounted
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(From powerpoint) 3. What caused the Roman Catholic Church in the west and the Eastern Orthodox Church to churches to split apart? 4. How are the religions of Islam‚ Judaism‚ and Christianity different? How are they similar? 5. What were the Crusades? Who were the Crusaders? Why was Jerusalem so important to Christianity‚ Judaism‚ and Islam? What happened
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War is an organized and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors. It is generally characterised by extreme violence‚ social disruption and economic destruction. War should be understood as an actual‚ intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities‚ and therefore is defined as a form of political violence or intervention. The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war is usually called peace.
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World Religions Report Elizabeth HUM 130 Oct 21‚ 2012 Laura Templeman World Religions Report In this paper I will be discussing what I learned about Christianity and Islamic faiths. How that even though these two religions have differences that they have core similarities and history that show that they have more in common than they do not have in common. I will discuss my interview at a Christian church and what I learned from it. Then I will discuss how much all the religions I have studied
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