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    The Crusades originated in 1096 as religious inspired military campaigns to recapture the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the Muslims and protect Christendom. Throughout the course of the Crusades, crusaders attacked fellow Christians, allied with Muslims, and went to other locations, including the Byzantine Empire and Languedoc. While other crusaders fought Christian heretics in the Albigensian Crusade, the Children’s Crusade of 1212 sought to fulfill the mission and travel to Jerusalem. Although both the Children’s Crusade and the People’s Crusade popularized the Crusade and encouraged individuals that they could succeed with faith alone, the Church only approved the People’s Crusade. However, crusaders realized that the Church’s sanction and faithfulness to God did not determine the outcome of the Crusade. Participants in the Children’s Crusade respected and followed participant’s actions in the People’s Crusade. In 1096, Peter the…

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    Essay I. Three important reasons for the crusades were to acquire the Holy Land, salvation, and religion. The crusades were a series of wars fought between Muslims and Christians. It all started with the Christians being banned from Jerusalem and Pope Urban II talking people into war. Jerusalem is a very sacred ground for both Christians and Muslims, therefore it is important for all followers of these religions to visit at least once. The Christians before being banned, had to pay fees to get…

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    Dominican Saints History

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    telling the story of Dominic and how his order came to be, as well as critiquing and changing the rule set forth by the new monastic order to help maintain its purity to Dominic’s vision. First is background on the world Saint Dominic was born into and lived in. Dominic was born in modern day Spain, a land divided into Christian and Muslim kingdoms. Another aspect of his world was that Europe was battling Islam in the Holy Land with the crusades, which by Dominic’s lifetime the tide was…

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    the Crusades were started Crusades began as a series of some religious wars which the Latin Church sanctioned between the periods of 11th to 16th centuries. The aim of coming up with crusades was to save Jerusalem from the Islamic rule at that time. As much as crusades were for advancing the cause of Christ, they began as a way to free the Christians from the Islamic rule and force. This research paper explains all the crusades that started in Europe and determines if the crusades signify…

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    accusations and already established disdain for different religions by Christian Europe consequently led to many acts of violence and abuses against Jewish communities. The Catholic Church in particular often initiated condemnations on Jews which instigated abuses. The religious differences between Christianity and Judaism were enough to have led the Catholic Church to deem the Jews as a threat to Christendom. The Fourth Lateran Council in particular called for methods to expose Jews with a…

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    Crusades Dbq

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    Number I There are several reasons for the start of the Crusades. The rapid expansion of Islam leading to the Holy War is one of the main causes. Western Europe is the main region where Christian concept took root and grew into Holy War. Even with the close measures of the Islamic Kingdoms, Byzantine Christians, never found value in waging or condoning war. Within a century of Constantine I’s rule, “[c]hristians in government found themselves faced with questions of life and death, war and…

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    The First Crusade began in 1095, when armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to Pope Urban II’s plea to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land. After the First Crusade achieved its goal; with the Crusaders having slaughtered hundreds of men, women, and children in their invasion of the city of Jerusalem in 1099, the Christians set up several Christian states. Muslims in the region vowed to wage jihad, or Holy War, to regain control over the region. Many of the Crusaders…

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    Poor nutrition, plagues, sexism, and social classes: these are only four of the prices of civilization that we, along with our ancestors, have faced. War is another major source of destruction, but also cooperation or even the creation of a new identity. War has the power to “make or break” a civilization, completely changing the course of history. No historian can ignore wars due to their influence. Merely one example of these influential wars are the Crusades. So, what is a Crusade? Depending…

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    ‘Crusade’ is a non-medieval Franco-Spanish hybrid that has been considered synonymous to the pursuit of a good cause. The Crusades were a series of on and off religious wars fought between the years from 1096 to 1487 under the authority of various Popes. The Crusades were basically fought for the recovery of the Holy Land. They were ordered by Pope Urban II in 1095, and within months the first Europeans had arrived in the Middle East to rid the Holy Land of Muslims. One story particularly…

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    Jonathan Phillips Summary

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    lesser-known medieval characters such as the formidable Melisende and her conniving sister Alice of Antioch, to which much time, effort, and supplies went into trying to control Alice. Phillips elaborates on Muslim characters as well, he writes of the preacher of jihad Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, and the Muslim poet Usama ibn Munqidn. Phillips acknowledged that at times even through the aggression and hostilities friendships were established. Nevertheless, Phillips notes the combatant’s agreement…

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