First Crusade Documents Summary Document A: Document A by August C. Krey is a descriptive summary of the First Crusade. In the First Crusade‚ the Franks used machines and tools to get into the city of Jerusalem and kill everyone inside. August C. Krey wrote this document from the Crusaders perspective. I know this because of: “there was blood covered up to our knees from the slaughter.” From this sentence‚ we can know that August C. Krey interviewed someone on the Crusaders side of the
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Were the Crusades Political or Religious? The Middle Ages was a religious age that was dominated by papacy. The Crusades show the religiousness of the Europeans in the Middle Ages‚ though we question ourselves if that was their only motive: Religion. People fought the Muslims‚ Seljuk Turks‚ to regain the Middle East in the name of "crusaders" which means "marked with the cross". This was the beginning of the Europe’s waking up to use their growing power to look outside Europe and dominate more lands
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The Era of the crusades began with a call by Pope Urban II‚ in 1095 at Clermont‚ France to reclaim the holy land from infidel Muslims who had conquered it in the seventh century.1 & 2 Urban’s purpose beyond recapturing Jerusalem and the holy land. In order that Christians could safely make pilgrimages to the land of the holy sites of Christianity. Urban also hoped that his crusade would also be a springboard for improving relations between the Roman and Eastern Orthodox Churches. If successful it
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outside of their families to join. The children’s crusade seemed like it would be successful and had good intention‚ but had a huge lack of sense of leadership and planning. He had led him and his army into a dispute against all factors of nature. At him being so young of age‚ that had also caught up with him. It has been said that the children’s crusade was a set up to try and shame the king and his army to go and fight for the holy land. The Crusades were a series of religious wars‚ blessed by
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The idea that was the driving force behind the crusades was that Christianity must replace previously held Islamic and Judaic beliefs at any price‚ even the lives of others. The people of the world must be saved through their belief in the Christian God‚ no matter the cost‚ even if violence was to be used. All throughout Europe‚ Jews were persecuted‚ and eventually Jerusalem was captured. Jewish and Muslim people living within the city were murdered; this included the slaughter of women and children
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about the same time “Alexios and Phillip of Swabia propose to the Crusaders to overthrow Constantinople and restore Alexios to the throne” . “Alexios had previously wanted Papal support for this but his request was denied” . Previous to the Fourth Crusade happening “the Doge of Venice‚ Dandolo had set his sights on Constantinople. In 1182 there was a Latin massacre that had included the Venetians. This had caused some contentions between the Greeks and Latins. This had stripped some of the Venetians
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Role of the Papacy in the 4th Crusade The fourth Crusade was one of the most astonishing turn of events during the Middle Ages. Each Crusade was called for one purpose‚ to reconquer the Holy Land from the Muslims. With that in mind‚ the fourth Crusade was disaster‚ not only failing to get anywhere near Jerusalem but then to attack and conquer two Christian cities‚ which had been unprecedented to this time. When discussing these points in history‚ it is important to discuss how such events came to
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violence and bloodshed. The duality of religion is accurately portrayed in the Christian crusades. The crusades of the late antiquity exemplified this duality of religion and the horror religion can bring. Thousands upon thousands fought and died‚ not for king or country‚ but under God. The kingdoms of Christendom united under the common goal of retaking the holy land and driving the Muslims from Jerusalem. The crusades were by no means a small affair; it was the first time since the collapse of the Western
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Former director a Beirut newspaper‚ An-Nahur and world renowned Prince of Asturias Award laureate for Letters winner‚ Amin Maalouf has received many accolades for his historical non fiction works as well as award winning operas. His book‚ The Crusades through Arab Eyes has served as his most noteworthy work yet. The author states clearly in the prologue that the book provides the reader with a view of the Crusades from the other side of the battles. The author uses
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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns that were fueled by religious views and the need for power by rivaling kingdoms. They were necessary for the political and cultural survival of Western Europe due to the positive consequences it had on education. The spread of knowledge from kingdom to kingdom due to societies working together for a common cause‚ and being introduced to it while in the invaded kingdoms‚ lead to the advancement of technology and medicine. New trade routes and crusaders
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