Women in the Crusades: A Historiographical Essay When writing about women’s participation in the Crusades‚ there is more than just the topic of the Crusades involved. Historians have unfortunately come to the conclusion that women’s participation in any type of warfare was practically unheard of during most part of the Middle Ages‚ due to tight social structures and gender roles. Each historian delves into the topic between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of the Crusades‚ dates in which
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The impact that the Crusades had on the Western world was that the Crusaders learn’t how to build better castle’s and more advanced war techniques. Another thing the Crusaders brought back to the western world was science and medicine‚ they also learn’t the arabic number system and made calculations a lot easier to do. They were also taught about were the Muslim world went to and in return taught them that the world was a lot bigger then what they thought it was. They had many different fruit‚ spices
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campaigns to wrest the Holy Land from Muslim control. Known as the Crusades‚ these campaigns‚ considered to be divinely sanctioned in the Christian view‚ were led by the desire for Christian access to the shrines associated with Jesus Christ‚ Lord and Savior of the Christian Faith. Out of the eight to nine crusades‚ only the first truly fulfilled the purpose that Pope Urban II wished to fulfill. While‚ there were positive effects of the Crusades – such as the opening of the Mediterranean to commerce and
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The Impact of the Crusades on History The Crusades‚ also know as the “Holy Wars”‚ were fought in the name of Christ and Christianity. Muslims controlled Jerusalem after the fall of the Roman Empire and they allowed religious freedoms to the Christians and Jews that also resided here. In the early 11th century‚ however‚ the Seljuk Turks (also Muslim) took rule of Jerusalem and the surrounding Palestine region. The Turks endorsed Islam and ended religious freedoms for both Jews and Christians
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How important was Muslim disunity to the success of the First Crusade? Muslim disunity was an important factor which lead to the success of the First Crusades. This is because it meant that due to the Muslims not being united they lost many battles which helped the Christians recapture Jerusalem. However it can’t be said that Muslim disunity was not the only reason for the success of the first crusade‚ this is because there are other factors such as religious beliefs and the supernatural‚ such as
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The Chronicle of the First Crusade The Chronicle of the First Crusade is a firsthand account of the First Crusade by the western Christian world to retake “the promise land”. Written by Fulcher‚ is gives a firsthand look into the preparation for and the completion of the crusade. What was meant to be a holy war‚ the crusade saw the completion of many atrocities by the solider it sought to redeem. Among other things‚ it leads us to the question of can there be such thing as a “holy war”‚ that is‚
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Created during the Crusades in 1119 A.D Jerusalem‚ the Knights Templar served to protect Christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. As a result‚ the Knights Templar gained power‚ respect and wealth that threatened Philip IV‚ King of France. Philip was influenced by his top adviser‚ William De Nogaret‚ to spread seditious stories about the knights‚ accusing them falsely of committing satanic practices and then torturing them into confessing that they had. Although the Knights were founded for the
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The First Crusade originated as the brainchild of the Catholic Pope Urban II and was announced at the Council of Claremont in Aquitaine in 1095 as a call to arms to reclaim Jerusalem and holy sites like the Church of the Holy Sepulcher where Jesus Christ was crucified and aide the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus against the Shia Muslim Seljuk Turks‚ who had taken Anatolia after a series of victories over the Byzantine Empire including the Battle of Manzikert. These events were recorded by Alexius
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The crusades a known as a series of military campaigns that took place during the medieval England that fought against the Muslims of the Middle East. During the year 1076 the Muslims had captured the most holy of holy places for Christians‚ city of Jerusalem. In the 900’s Byzantium had successfully seized religion in Syria‚ in the begging of the 1030 the Seljuk Turks had managed to take over land and power in Syria. These actions prevented the emperor of Byzantium‚ Alexis I had sent an assignment
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The Crusades‚ Silk Road‚ Umayyad‚ and Abbasid Dynasties • A1 The start of the Crusades begins with the Turks. In the early 11th century CE‚ the Seljuk Turks moved west from Central Asia and came to occupy the Holy Land and Jerusalem. They did not allow Christian pilgrims access to Jerusalem and other religious sites. This invasion of the Holy Land made Greek Emperor Alexis I Comnenus seek the help of Pope Urban II who was his rival‚ as the Emperor could not hold the Turks off alone. Pope Urban called
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