April of 1096. Over 60‚000 people in total within these people are knights‚ surfs [women and children included] noble men‚ and monks all standing outside the doors of Constantinople. The emperor invited only the principle commanders of the crusade‚ Duke Godfrey‚ Baldwin Godfrey‚ and Jeffrey Baldwin of Toront. I feel like emperor Alexies seem furious I don’t think he was expecting a catholic army as big as we are‚ if anything I feel he only wanted an elite team of mercenaries. But he
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The crusades a known as a series of military campaigns that took place during the medieval England that fought against the Muslims of the Middle East. During the year 1076 the Muslims had captured the most holy of holy places for Christians‚ city of Jerusalem. In the 900’s Byzantium had successfully seized religion in Syria‚ in the begging of the 1030 the Seljuk Turks had managed to take over land and power in Syria. These actions prevented the emperor of Byzantium‚ Alexis I had sent an assignment
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The stories of the crusades of the middle ages are filled with tales of bravery‚ religious devotion‚ and of course‚ the battles of knights who crave fame‚ riches‚ and glory. One very famous group of knights was “The Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon”(Napier) also known as The Templars or The Knights Templar. These knights had an unforgettable end filled with misfortune. The Templars formed around the start of the crusades in 1118 A.D. The jobs of the Templars included defending the
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Christopher Roe Dr. Jennifer Davis Medieval History October 11th‚ 2013 The Crusades: Motivation behind the Movement. Patrick Geary’s “Readings in Medieval History” contains four accounts of the invasion of the Middle East by the Europeans in 1095 A.D. These accounts all cite different motives for the first crusade‚ and all the accounts are from the perspective of different sides of the war. The accounts all serve to widen our perspective‚ we hear from the Christian and Middle Eastern side
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and contagion. Prophet Muhammad gave birth to Islam‚ a religion that expanded quickly into Christian territories; the Silk Road connected the eastern markets to western consumers‚ and unwittingly created a corridor for diseases. The first four Crusades (1095 - 1254 CE)‚ while seeming to be religious wars‚ were also very much political battles fought for secular reasons like political alliances‚ trade routes‚ and control of land. The conflict began when a tribe of Muslim Turks moved down from Turkestan
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The Crusades are very important to know about. It caused many impacts in different ways. The economy had an important part with the Crusades before and after it. After the Crusades‚ places in Europe began changing their government. The Crusades also impacted social structures in Europe. The Crusades even impacted religion‚ mostly Christianity. The Crusades are an important part of history in Europe and it changed many things including economically‚ politically‚ socially‚ and even religiously.
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Why did people go on crusades? In 1095‚ Pope Urban II called for an army to go to the Holy Land‚ Jerusalem. This was what was later known as the ‘First Crusade’. A crusade is a religious war or a war mainly motivated by religion. The first crusade consisted of 10’s of thousands of European Christians on a medieval military expedition to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. This doesn’t mean that the first crusade was just motivated by religion. Throughout this essay‚ I will be suggesting the
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How and why did the Second and Third Crusades fail to match the enthusiasm and success of the First? When Pope Urban II received a petition from the Byzantine Emperor Alexius for military aid to repel the threat of Islam‚ particularly the Muslim Turks‚ he saw an opportunity to repair the Great Schism of forty years and unite the church under papal primacy.1 Europe at this time was not only fervently Christian‚ but its knights‚ although they regarded bloodshed as inherently sinful‚ consistently
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Crusades Leading up to the Crusades‚ secular kings and the church were constantly jockeying for superiority over one another. Kings status’s symbolically fluctuated constantly in the public eye by seemingly meaningless gestures. The Crusades‚ while a holy mission‚ were also a political weapon to increase the power of the popes of the middle ages. In the 1070’s Pope Gregory VII challenged the Holy Roman Empire. While this was the start of the rise and increase in the power of the papacy‚ Pope
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in what they are calling the People’s Crusade. It is unfortunate that this army put together by peter in a rushed attempt was disorganized and nearly all crusades were killed by the Turkish soldiers. A skillful army was constructed
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