The Weapons of the Crusades Guy Steuart 4/20/13 War in Society Dr. Jobin The Crusades were extremely violent times. With constant pressure to take back the holy city‚ armies were constantly fighting and killing. They were also always trying to find better and more efficient ways to fight and kill. Old weapons were engineered to be more destructive‚ new weapons were invented to destroy the ever-advancing technology in fortification. The three main categories of weaponry that were most important
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The First Crusade (1096–1099) was a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632–661)‚ ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos‚ who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon
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McClelland identified three key motivating drives that work for everyone. He named these key drives as: * The Need for Achievement * The Need for Affiliation * The Need for Power He also identified how these needs each vary in strength between different people. Everyone‚ says McClelland‚ is motivated by all of these‚ but to motivate individuals‚ the manager needs to consider what the primary drivers in each case are. Achievement How to recognise the Achievement Motive in a person
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PERSONAL VALUES AND DECISION MAKING PROCESS To discuss personal values and decision making‚ we need to know the definition of decision making is ’A principle‚ standard‚ or quality considered worthwhile or desirable. ’ “Values are a major motivating force for people because they categorise how people attach meaning‚ worth and importance to things. When a person ’s values are matched‚ they feel complete and satisfied. If values are not met‚ there is a sense of dissatisfaction‚ unease or
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Organization to Society (system) • Serfs don’t belong to the lord‚ they belong to the Manor • Lord gives protection for Serfs so sometimes it is preferred to be one - Rise of Islam Values of Islam (art‚ mathematics‚ social structure‚ science) - Crusades Was it a conflict of religion‚ or power structure? Renaissance Renaissance (Rinascimento) Definition: Rebirth (French) of Greek and Roman ideas. Greco Roman Ideas of‚ Humanism – Greek Gods‚ praising the Homo sapiens Art & Architecture –
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When Holy Crusades are mentioned many people will go straight to the epic encounters over the Holy Land of Jerusalem against the Muslim Forces but that was not the only crusade to be called by the Papacy. The Baltic Crusades also known as the Northern Crusades was the Catholic Churches push to clear out the pagan ideology from Northern Europe once and for all. This crusade was called to begin by Pope Celestine III (1106 – 1198) in 1195 but the local Christian states were already fighting to suppress
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The Crusades are the Medieval European wars waged principally to recover the Holy Lands from the control of the Muslims. There is an aggregate of nine noteworthy Crusades‚ but the first four were the most important. The main legitimate Crusades were launched from Western Europe to recover and protect Jerusalem. The first crusade started in 1096 where tens of thousands of aggressive younger sons of the nobility went off to Palestine or Eastern Europe to fight the unbelievers‚ recover the long-lost
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"Children ’s Crusade" The "Children ’s Crusade" is one of the more extraordinary events found in Medieval England. The "Children ’s Crusade" was set after the Fourth Crusade. By the closing stages of the Fourth Crusade (1202 to 1204)‚ it was obvious that the Christian crusaders had added no lasting achievement. Actually‚ the Fourth Crusade had been a tragedy for the Christians as a lot of crusaders had not even got to the Holy Land let unaided struggle for Jerusalem and a lot of Christians had used
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the Crusades: any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th‚ 12th‚ and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims. However‚ the Crusades were ineffective overall by only creating more tension between the religions and the cause of unreasonable deaths. Many religious
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Theodore R. Griffiths HIS 101 Essay #1 The Crusades as a whole were an obvious failure‚ yet regardless of the lack of gain from such expeditions‚ Europe still moved forth within their own boundaries. The First Crusade was a shining victory‚ taking Jerusalem out of Muslim control and achieving mass popularity with the people of Europe. Thanks to the achievement of the first Crusade‚ one of the results was the Templars‚ or Knights of the Temple‚ which created safe routes between Europe and the crusaders
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