Preferred language style: English (U.S.) First Crusade: My professor assign us to do an essay and he gave us two statements that we have to argue in both the pros and cons of the first crusade focusing on what happened and what did the crusades did to the jewish‚ hungarians‚ greeks and arabs. The two statements are: 1- Crusades was a military expansion of Europe. 2- crusade were a disruption
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The film “The Crusades: An Arab Perspective” is a TV series that was produced by Al Jazeera English which emphasizes the history of the holy war between crusaders and Islam. In the first place‚ the western European we know today was not the same in the 11th century. Europeans had no title of land and they were serfs who worked in agricultural lands. Most knights would rob people just to accumulate income. The church who had the power to govern wanted to conquer the Islam region. It was their calling
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1096 to 1099 the First Crusade was born. They were Christian military undertakings and religous wars broadcasted by the general population. The motivation behind the Campaigns was to pick up and keep control over Palestine from the Muslims. Palestine was additionally called the Holy Land since Jesus lived there. Alexius Compenus was another ruler that came into force in Byzantium in 1081. Constentinople was in risk in light of the fact that the Seljuks debilitated them‚ so Alexius initially called
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three important reasons for the Crusades: including‚ names‚ dates‚ places‚ persons of interest‚ events‚ edicts‚ etc… One of the main reason for the crusades was to take back their holy land which was Jerusalem. Two main religions fought for the ownership of Jerusalem and they were Christians and Muslims. The Pope Innocent III was trying to expand the holy Roman Empire and reclaim the holy land from the Islamic Empire. This event lead to the start of the first crusade which began in the year 1096. Another
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Christian Crusades were a series of battles between the Muslims and the Christians in order to claim the Holy Land as their own. Religious and economic tensions are the causes of these numerous crusades. For starters‚ religious tensions occurred when Muslims taught the message of the prophet Muhammad. These teachings went against the christian teachings and the what the christian church believes. Muslims thought they would be able to overrun the traditional christian ideas. At the time‚ Pope Urban the
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PLUNGING WITH THE POPE Characters The Pope - an ancient but by no means feeble man. It is vital that this actor has a flair for comedy and good comedic timing The Camerlengo - Much younger (late twenties‚ early thirties)‚ somewhat naiive The Pope’s private office. There is a desk and a table. He and the camerlengo are decorating the place for Christmas. There is tinsel and a nativity scene. Perhaps Christmas music The camerlengo steps forward and begins speaking to the audience
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The Crusades were a series of holy wars that lasted two hundred years. The purpose of the Crusades was to “regain” the Holy Land which is Palestine and the Holy City which Was Jerusalem from Muslim controls. Pope Urban the second ordered these wars in 1096CE. He gathered the kings and knights to Europe to discuss the problem in the holy land. This discussion led to the series of the crusades with the knights which were called the crusaders. The effects of the Crusades on Europe of the middle Ages
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Jerusalem‚ the city of the three faiths. Jerusalem founded in between 4500-3500 BCE has become a center of the three major monotheistic faiths in the world‚ Judaism‚ Christianity‚ and Islam. Rising from a proto-Canaanite village to a city that has had crusades and Jihads launched in its name has truly been an amazing turn of events. How did it happen? Why is it important? Why here and not elsewhere? What makes people so driven to capture Jerusalem? Why has it been captured and recaptured no less
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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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The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the stated goal of capturing the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslims‚ but this was more easily said than done. The motions that set this in place began “in 1071 when the Seljuk Sultan of Baghdad defeated the main Byzantine field army at Manzikert in Eastern Asia Minor and during the next few years Turkish war bands occupied most of the Asiatic Provinces of Byzantium. This made it hazardous for western pilgrims to make
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