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    The Crusades

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    The strongest evidence of this is the Crusades‚ which served to reclaim the ‘holy-land’ for Christendom‚ and also served to create a divide between the three major religions in the west that would later have wide reaching effects. The Crusades are a major turning point of wester culture in that they changed the values and structure of Europe‚ the birthplace of all western culture‚ and in that they would be christianity’s last holy wars. The Crusades changed the fundaments of western culture by

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    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the 3rd movie in the trilogy. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade‚ the characters search for the Holy Grail. The film shows several key points on the Holy Grail‚ such as what it is‚ and what its purpose served. The Holy Grail was said to have been used in the last supper as Christ’s cup‚ and it was used to catch His blood from the cross during the crucifixion. The Holy Grail is an important legendary artifact that many have searched for but never found‚

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    I Professor Sarah M. Lane The crusades were religious wars promoted by the Catholic Church to regain entrance in holy places in Jerusalem in the thirteenth century. Both‚ Muslims and Jews had similar opinions about the crusades differing from the Christians who approved of them. Pope Urban‚ organizer of the papal monarchy and the Roman Curia‚ was a faithful believer of the crusades. At his speech in Clermont in 1095‚ he warned Europeans to accept the crusades‚ which he believed would free the

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    and social affairs. Nirenberg gives several example beginning with the Shepard’s crusade of 1320 CE‚ with the initial intent to attack the Moors in Spain spurning from a vision by a shepherd boy. When the nobility did not readily support this crusade they began murdering Jews as they traveled through France‚ with local townsfolk and municipal offices being complicit in the slaughter. This subsequently made the crusade a contextual regional affair‚ rather than the spiritual affair of destroying the

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    10/30/2013 Quarterly Assessment How did Political‚ Social and Economic events which occurred during the Middle Ages contribute to the rapid fall of Feudalism and increase the foundation of nation states? Since politics and social matters are so closely founded the way that these two subcategories of the middle ages clashed against the Feudal way of organizing everything in the middle ages are. Politically kings ruled the way that everyone lived and by doing so this would later on provoke

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    plate when they discovered new lands and fought new diseases. One of the early forces that had a major impact were the crusades. The Crusades were a bunch of religious wars that were called on by the Pope and the Catholic Church in order to defend Christianity against the Muslims and get closer to the holy cities and other places in ancient Palestine. So what exactly does “crusade” mean? The word comes from an old French word “crois”‚ which means cross (if you haven’t guessed it). The crusaders (men

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    Fritz Charles Howser Piracy Take Home Test 1 February 22‚ 2013 Christian-Muslim Interface The crusades were a tough time to be in Asia Minor‚ the Western Europeans were engaging in religious wars. Christianity was being spread using propaganda while engaging in war against the Muslim religion. Typical fighting wasn’t the norm during the Crusades‚ each side was trying to figure out a way to get a leg up on the competition. When the Christians figured out they could use pirates as an advantage

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    WORLD HISTORY – UNIT 3: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD HIGH MIDDLE AGES: MONARCHIES AND THE CHURCH In the midst of this setting‚ medieval countries began to emerge. England and France began to develop strong monarchal systems of government. Spain and Portugal emerged as monarchies near the end of the Middle Ages. Germany and Italy never developed strong monarchies. Here are your goals for this lesson: · Identify key political leaders‚ especially of France and England‚ during the High Middle Ages. ·

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    Pentecost and Mission of the Apostles‚ tympanum of the center portal of the narthex of the Madeleine‚ Vèzelay‚ France‚ 1120-1132. The church was one of the four starting points on the route to Santiago de Compostella and even launched the second crusade in 1146. The Pentecost and mission of the apostles is a very religious piece‚ and Christ is obviously the all powerful one in Christianity‚ which is why he is bigger than his surroundings. This piece‚ being involved with these pilgrimages‚ clearly

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    The Crusades was a continuous stream of marching Western armies (Crusaders) into the Muslim world‚ ending in the creation and eventually the fall of the Islamic Kingdoms. The Crusades was supposed to be a Holy War of Roman Christianity against Islam‚ but it also had to do with Western Europeans wanting more land and power. Lots of knights and

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