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    The Crusades started all the way back in 1095 in the Holy Lands. Leading up to the Crusades, the Muslims rapidly expanded across the middle east and into Jerusalem and into a place called the Holy Lands. The Holy Lands are a very important religious part of the world, where there is great religious value for Christians, Muslims, and Jews. So when the Seljuk Turks, who were Muslims and were in control of the Holy Lands in 1095, limited the Christians access to their religious sites many were people became upset and outraged. One of those people was Emperor Alexius, emperor of the Byzantine empire, and began the idea of a Crusades with the goal in mind of recapturing the Holy Lands and wreaking revenge on the Muslims. These actions of Emperor…

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    The First Crusade was the first and most successful of a series of holy wars that defined the Middle Ages. Ostensibly a religious mission to regain the Holy Land, the crusade changed the ways the nobility interacted and opened western Europe to new ideas. While the goal of the First Crusade was to “rescue” Jerusalem, its most lasting effect was the strengthening of the Catholic Church. At the behest of the Pope, Urban II, a large group of French nobles went to try to recapture Jerusalem. The…

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    The Crusades were a religious military conflict between Christian and Islamic forces for control of the holy lands. Though there were multiple crusades, I will be only examining the first crusades which lasted from 1095-1100. I will be observing to see if the crusades, even though very deadly wars, helped the world to develop into the more connected world, that would become after the crusades. The crusades when launched in 1095 by Pope Urban to stop the Muslim expansion into the Byzantine…

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    The Crusades that took place in the medieval period between 1096 and 1291 were a series of political and religious wars fought by European countries in order to gain control of the Holy Land. The first call for a crusade was made by Pope Urban II in order to send aid to the Christian Byzantine Empire, which found itself under attack during this period from Muslim Turks. This first crusade lasted from 1096-1102, with the Christian knights taking control of Jerusalem in 1099. In response to the…

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    Would you believe me if I told you that there were a series of wars over a city 10s of thousands of years ago that are a main effect on our religion today? The crusades were a series of 9 holy wars which first started in the year 1095. The wars were over a holy city called Jerusalem. The wars were between the Christians and the Muslims. The Christians lost all of the wars to the Muslims except the first one. The Crusades were primarily caused by religious devotion because the Christians wanted…

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    religion or class. Many of these types of wars have been unsuccessful in achieving this goal and only one notable, historical crusade has done this and has succeeded, but at a price. There hasn’t been a movement more momentous than the First Crusade. The First Crusade was a pilgrimage turned military expedition to Jerusalem that was sponsored by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clement in November 1095 in the aspiration to set out from the west to the recover the holy city from the hands of the…

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    The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims that took place during 1095 CE- 1291 CE. The main purpose of the Crusades was that both religious groups wanted to take possession of the Holy Land (Jerusalem). There were 9 major Crusades in total, which are called the Principle Crusades. There were also shorter and less significant Crusades in between each Principle Crusade that are called Minor Crusades. These wars had various effects on the world, especially in…

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    The First Crusade and How it Effected Today The First Crusade of nine effected the future without even knowing it. The Crusades were religious battles. Had the Crusades not happened many things that happen today, would not. One example is the impact the Crusades had in European expansion. If the First Crusade had not happened then the other eight would not have occurred either. If none of these had occurred the world would be a much different place. The First Crusade began in 1096 and…

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    times. The Crusades were wars designed to help religious figures control and expand the Catholic Church. The expansion of the Catholic Church would lead to power and also an increase in revenue for the church simply because they could control every aspect of the people’s lives, whether that was forcing the people to pay more taxes or causing them to revolt against one another. Religion and the Crusades directly correlated with one another because religion was the main focal point of the…

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    The crusades was a major event in history because it was a battle between muslims and christians. The crusades were a series of holy wars called by popes. Both of the different religions fought for the holy lands. There was many reasons they fought in the crusades it was probably for wealth, or forgiveness of all sins.The crusade started around 1095 when pope urban the 2 calls for a crusade to free the holy lands. Since the crusade was a war between religion, it had a negative effect for these…

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