Anthony Loverher Loverher 1
Mrs. Remington
Honors English
11 December 2014
The Crusades
The Crusades were a series of bloody wars during the middle ages where the Christians of Europe tried to retake control of Jerusalem. In Christianity, the crusades were expeditions of Christian Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries for the recovery of the holy land (Chrisholm 44). They were a time of religion, war and religious war leaders. Crusaders were brutal people mostly made up of young, old and poor people. Historians have estimated that there were seven crusades total that resulted in
Mrs. Remington
Honors English
11 December 2014
The Crusades
The Crusades were a series of bloody wars during the middle ages where the Christians of Europe tried to retake control of Jerusalem. In Christianity, the crusades were expeditions of Christian Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries for the recovery of the holy land (Chrisholm 44). They were a time of religion, war and religious war leaders. Crusaders were brutal people mostly made up of young, old and poor people. Historians have estimated that there were seven crusades total that resulted in