as Saladin‚ was a Kurdish Muslim‚ who became the first Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt and Syria. He led Islamic opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant. At the height of his power‚ he ruled over Egypt‚ Syria‚ Mesopotamia‚ Hejaz‚ and Yemen. He led the Muslims against the Crusaders and eventually recaptured Palestine from the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem after his victory in the Battle of Hattin. As such‚ he is a notable figure in Kurdish‚ Arab‚ and Muslim culture. Saladin was a
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church due to the Crusades. The most prominent factor that has affected the church would be the influx in power and overall wealth as a result of the campaign. The wealth was granted through the gifts from other lands in return for prayers; the crusaders would also return home with goods from their pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Crusades had a large economical influence on how wealthy the Church had started to become due to the gifts that were given as a result of this Christian movement.
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beginning of every crusade‚ the pope‚ at that time‚ would announce a new crusade by preaching. After pronouncing a solemn vow‚ each warrior received a cross directly from the hands of the pope‚ and was then afterwards considered a soldier of the church. Crusaders were also granted indulgences and sequential privileges‚ such as exclusion from civil jurisdiction‚ sacredness and holiness of persons or lands. Of all the wars that occurred in the name of Christendom‚ the most important were the Eastern Crusades
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the First Crusade was underway. Once in Constantinople‚ the crusaders marched on Nicea‚ only to be betrayed by the Byzantine Emperor‚ hence breaking the pact with the Byzantines. After Nicea‚ the crusaders marched on the valley of Doryleaum and then on Armenia and Antioch‚ all of which were originally Christian regions‚ but were overthrown by the Muslims. In 1099‚ the crusaders finally made it to Jerusalem. After a few attacks‚ the crusaders finally besieged the city and on Friday‚ July 15‚ 1099‚ conquered
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to be a vassal of King Philip of Swabia‚ the same with whom young Prince Alexius had taken refuge. Boniface and the young prince probably met when Boniface visited his liege lord’s court late in 1201. And now came the seeding of a new plan — the crusaders could stop at Constantinople on their way to Egypt‚ overthrow the usurper Alexius III and put the young Alexius on the imperial
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away to have a standing Army. In return the Empire needed to make a deal with the Normans whom were somewhat consequently always attacking Byzantium. This would have caused a problem in that in that the pact that Michael VII made had thinned the troops. The standing army that he had instituted during peace times sent these troops to other areas of the vast empire‚ areas of less importance. This left Constantinople unprotected and open for an outside attack to happen. “In 1081 Robert Guiscard abandons
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Here he fought with the crusaders against the Selijuk Turks‚ near the city of Dorylaeum in Anatolia. The crusaders were traveling the interior of Anatolia‚ lost by the Byzantine Empire after the battle of Manzikert (1071)‚ in two separate columns. Sr. Ocelot was in the left column and him and his army was surprised from all sides by the army of Kilji Arslan. Their entire army consisted of mounted archers who attacked them in swarms. After several hours of fighting the crusaders had lost some men and
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were harder than they had imagined‚ and most of them died on the way. One group decided it was too hard to get to Jerusalem to fight the Fatimids‚ and instead stopped in Germany to fight theJews. Thousands of Jews were robbed and killed by these Crusaders‚ just because they were not Christians. Finally in the fall of 1096 the main Crusade left for Jerusalem. They went by different routes‚ some by land and some by sea‚ to Constantinople. Here the Emperor Alexius was quite surprised to see them and
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Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. During the Middle Ages there was an uproar of holy wars known as the crusades. The word crusade comes from the Latin word crux‚ meaning "cross." The Christian soldiers‚ called Crusaders‚ wore the cross as a symbol of their religion. The crusades began in 1090’s and continued in the 11th and 12th centuries. The main cause for the holy wars was because of Pope Urban II‚ he wanted to capture the sacred places in the Holy Land from
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Ernest Hemingway once said‚ “Never think that war‚ no matter how necessary‚ nor how justified‚ is not a crime.” When groups of Christians responded to Pope Urban II’s plea to go to war against the harmonious Muslims‚ they were starting a series of wars that would destroy both sides. The First Crusade‚ which took place during the late eleventh century CE‚ was an “endeavor” which Christians set out on a religious pilgrimage led by Pope Urban II. This endeavor was supposedly backed by God‚ in which
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