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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Impact of the Crusades The Crusades were a series of nine military campaigns by European Christians to regain Holy Land from the Muslims‚ in which about 1.5 million lives were lost all together. The first Crusade was organized by Pope Urban II in 1095‚ and the last being in 1289. Pope Urban II originally intended to recruit followers by saying that your sins would be relieved if you helped regain Holy Land from Muslims‚ however‚ these intentions quickly turned into bad intentions when people
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During the twelfth century‚ Anna Komnene‚ the daughter of king Alexius of Byzantine wrote The Alexiad in which she gives us an account of the First Crusade (1095)‚ the rising conflict between the Byzantines and the Western Europeans‚ and the pressing problems faced by the Byzantine Empire during king Alexius’s reign. By 1056‚ the Byzantine Empire had become a powerful nation with its territory expansions‚ but during the late eleventh century it was on the brink of collapse as the Seljuk Turks rose
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"The Crusades: series of wars by Western European Christians to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims." (Encarta "Crusades") The Crusades first began in 1096 and ended in the late 13th century. The term Crusade originally meant that the European’s would use all their efforts to regain the power from the Muslims. They wanted to retake the city of Jerusalem‚ which was holy to Christians because that’s where the crucifixion of Jesus Christ occurred. Europeans later used it to allocate any military
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The crusades were an astonishing and remarkable phenomenon which employed an authoritative influence on European growth and expansion over a period of several Centuries. The Study of crusades has extended swiftly in the last 50 years‚ encompassing the study of military excursions from Middle East to the Western Europe between 1095 and 1291. The First Crusade was acknowledged its shape and name late. To the contemporaries‚ the occasion was a voyage and the men who participated in it were called the
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The aspects and the motives of the crusades have caused heated debates where historians are determining the major motives of the Crusades. The Crusades were primarily caused by religious devotion‚ political gain and economic benefit. The question was that‚ which of the two factors had served as more of a catalyst. The Crusades were constructed on the basis of devoting to the religion of Christianity and leaders protecting their people and the future of their empire and leadership. Despite there being
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The primary cause of the crusades Were the crusades caused primarily by religious devotion or by desire for political and economic gain? Christians and Muslims fought in a series of wars for nearly 200 years. The drive to gain control of the Holy Land was the biggest motivation. Christians wanted the Holy Land because this was where Jesus lived. The Muslims also wanted Jerusalem because this was where Muhammad preached. The biggest debate about the crusades is whether it was caused by
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What were the most significant causes and results of the Crusades? Were the Crusades‚ on balance‚ a major mistake? Why or why not? By 1000 A.D.‚ Europe was coming out of the Dark Ages and into a period of expansionism. Agricultural advances increased the food supply‚ therein by increasing the population‚ which led to more wealth and commerce. In 1064 the eastern churches refused to submit to the Pope causing the Byzantine and Roman church to split. The last successful invasion of Britain was
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Jason Arnold The Crusades Liberty University CHHI301 The Crusades The Crusades are a big part of history‚ not just for the church‚ but for the world. This point in time showed the weakened state of the Romans and the power of the church over its people. There are good and bad things that came out of the Crusades; the heart of the people and the corruption of man. But where does the story start? The call to fight started in November 27‚ 1095 during the Council of Clermont under Pope Urban II
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The Crusades: An Origin The Crusades are renowned as the most massive church-sanctioned militaristic movement of the later middles ages‚ like no other military movement of the time. The series of events that brought about the existance of the Crusaders were so large as to eclipse the affairs of the homeland in the West in the name of religious faith and duty. Chivalric idealism‚ romance of battle and the notion of beautific zeal affect the way in which both the Crusaders and the Crusades are
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