The most important impact was that it liberalized the minds of the crusaders. While in the East the crusaders enjoyed the advantages which come about from travel in strange lands and among unfamiliar peoples. They were able to experience great cities‚ marble palaces‚ superb dresses‚ and elegant manners which were all unknown to them prior
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Kurdish‚ Sunni‚ military family‚ he quickly rose the ranks within the Muslim society as second in charge to the Syrian-northern Mesopotamian military leader Nur al-din. Sultan Saladin played a leading role for the Muslims in the fight against the Crusaders. He participated in three campaigns into Egypt (which was led by the Shi’ite Fatimid Dynasty)‚ and then
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Kingdom of Heaven‚ directed by Ridley Scott‚ is a movie based upon the life of a Christian named Balian. The movie begins in 1184 with Balian working as a blacksmith in a French village. Balian’s son previously passed away‚ unfortunately leading to his wife’s suicide. For his wife’s burial‚ the local priest‚ Balian’s younger brother‚ orders his wife beheaded (a common medieval practice for victims of suicide). Godfrey‚ the Baron of Ibelin‚ approaches Balian in the village explaining to him that
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------------------------------------------------- CRUSADES The Crusades where a sequence of wars starting in 1095‚ and ending in 1291. A total of nine Crusades. It was a battle between the Christians and the Muslims‚ both sides having the same goal of taking the holy land (Jerusalem). The cause of the crusades was in 1095; the Arabs took control of Jerusalem‚ and shut off all the Christian and Jewish pilgrims from entering. Of course‚ different religions have different beliefs‚ and they both
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property is the right to protect inventions‚ literary and artistic works‚ symbols‚ names‚ and images that come from the mind. Intellectual property laws give individuals the exclusive rights to patent his/her own ideas. In the article "Copyright Crusaders" by: David Gibson‚ David Gibson talks about three claimants who all copyrighted their versions of the same idea. The idea was the "footprints in the sand." The poem is a soft-focus retrospective that imagines life as a walk on the beach with Jesus
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The Christians showed no mercy towards the residing Muslims and Jews of Jerusalem. The Crusaders were blindfolded by religion by the higher authority. Those who fought as a Crusader were largely influenced by the idea of the war being the Lord’s wishes. Pope Urban had said in his speech that the war was religiously motivated to carry out the battles. Not only was the war thought to
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ane Eyre the protagonist Jane is isolated in her own home‚ in which she is treated as an unwelcomed guest‚ and the author begins to illustrate and convey the feelings of entrapment and constraint to the reader in this passage‚ often done with symbolic representation of emotion through the weather and nature in gothic novels such as this. She combines this symbolism with desolate diction and structure that mimics Jane’s daily life to communicate the feeling of imprisonment and constraint experienced
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The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was built in the capital city of Caria‚ Halicarnassus‚ which was present-day Bodrum‚ Turkey. It was built between the years 353 B.C. and 350 B.C. After construction had started‚ the Mausoleum could have faced destruction several times. The Rhodians’ land had been conquered by Mausolus‚ and they soon learned of his death. They rebelled and sent ships to capture Halicarnassus. They were defeated and the tomb was never harmed. It was untouched when Alexander the Great
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expectations.The endless cycle of early mornings and rushed breakfasts‚ the relentless pressure to meet tight deadlines and juggle a cascade of assignments‚ the constant strain of navigating a labyrinthine maze of crowded hallways and noisy classrooms‚ the ceaseless barrage of quizzes and tests‚ the perpetual struggle to balance extracurricular activities with academic responsibilities‚ the unyielding demand to meet the expectations of teachers and parents while grappling unite into an overwhelming‚ unrelenting
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account of Urban’s Speech at Clermont and La Chanson d’Antioche (The Song of Antioch) by Graindor de Douai. Though they are very different types of sources‚ written at different times and for different purposes‚ they both illustrate the reasons why Crusaders felt they were fighting for land that was rightfully theirs. In the late 11th century‚ before the First Crusade was preached‚ the Byzantine Empire in the east was quickly losing land to the Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor. These Turks had rapidly expanded
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