write as if you are a Crusader. You should discuss the long journey it took for you to reach Jerusalem‚ your reasons for participating in the Crusades‚ and any fears you might have. For the second journal entry‚ you will take on the role of a muslim living in the city of Jerusalem writing about the Crusaders and the attack on the city. 1. Crusader- Dear journal‚ My days on the ship were ever lasting they seemed to never end but I hung in there. I would see other Crusaders on the ship and they seemed
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enthusiasm and widespread support. Alexius probably expected no more than a token force‚ but the extent of support rendered the Byzantine Empire to be ‘overrun by Humankind’ according to Asbridge.3 The First Crusade was an undoubted success; creating four Crusader States in Outremer against the odds. However roughly one hundred years later a unified Muslim force under Saladin took Jerusalem and the following two crusades were comparatively utter failures. It is thus important to analyse and compare the both
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Ebonee Plummer HIS 101 Dr. Kevin Greene November 21‚ 2013 8.4 Fulcher of Chartres‚ “Pope Urban II’s Speech at Clermont” As the crusades began‚ Christians gathered to hear the insightful speech given by Pope Urban II in which he was able take unruly knights and give them a common enemy to fight. The enemies were the Muslims and Turks who were attacking the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Land. Urban II’s speech gave insights to the knightly class who were engaging in warlike tendencies and encouraged
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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 efforts against non-Christians. The Crusaders also created feudal states in the Near East. The Crusades played an important role of European expansion and colonialism. "They mark the first time Western Christendom undertook a military initiative far from home‚ the first time significant numbers
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The Crusades were a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Western Christian Europe‚ particularly the Franks of France and the Holy Roman Empire. The specific crusades to restore Christian control of the Holy Land were fought over a period of nearly 200 years‚ between 1095 and 1291. There are several reasons for the Crusades‚ but the importance and relevance of some are debated by scholars even to this day. (NEW PARAGRAPH) In the Middle Ages‚ Christians considered
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lifestyle for the name of God and the church. This long road was a treacherous one‚ filled with hardships and sins of many kinds; however‚ supposedly‚ if one died‚ one’s sins would be forgiven. However‚ since this was foreign to the newly formed crusaders‚ there were certain problems and obstacles that made their expedition quite difficult. Not knowing this‚ they went in with their heads held high – and in the name of their holy land‚ they pressed on. The first occurring mistake was the
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began in A.D. 1096‚ three armies of Crusader knights and volunteers traveled separately from western Europe to the eastern Mediterranean. On the way‚ many of them killed Jews and sometimes massacred entire Jewish communities. The three armies finally met in Constantinople in A.D. 1097. From there the Crusaders made their way to Jerusalem‚ enduring the hardships of desert travel as well as quarrels among their leaders. In June A.D. 1099‚ the Crusaders finally reached the city. After the
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Christian faith dominant in Jerusalem by driving the various Arabic and Turkish ethnicities out thereby giving the people of Christendom a path to salvation‚ and how it effected the typical people that went on either the Pigrimage or the Crusade of the Crusader
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the Muslims in Syria and Palestine and eventually retake Jerusalem from the Egyptians. Most of the crusaders were nobles. By 1096‚ five major armies of noblemen--mainly French--had been assembled and set out on their journey. The common people also got caught up in the excitement and organized their own "popular Crusade" led by a preacher known as Peter the Hermit. Very few of the popular Crusaders made it to the Middle East and even less lasted until Jerusalem. This First Crusade was successful
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Assess the reasons for the failure of the second crusade (1147-1149) In 1147‚ the Pope called for the second crusade‚ fully 200 thousand men answered his call. By 1149 the crusade beat a hasty and disgraced retreat. Just 1 year after being called it had failed. The failure happed straight after the disastrous siege of Damascus. The causes of the failure of the second crusade‚ are debated wildly by historians‚ such as Jonathan Riley Smith‚ Steven Runciman and Hans Mayer. Many Historians agree
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