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    followed Pope Urban II’s command to attack the Muslims in their holy land. (The Crusades: A Complete History, 2015) The Muslims felt disrespected by the Americans trying to change their values. (Terrorism-Causes and Consequences, 2015) Intolerance, sociocentricism, and egos lead to conflict between groups of people that they feel they must fight to resolve, therefor religion does start…

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    7 Crusades Clothing

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    The crusades first started by Pope Urban II who wanted to retrieve Christian land from the Muslims who ruled them. This feat launched seven crusades before it ended during the 13th century. During this era, trade was a great commodity and vast. This may have influenced costumes worn in the era. Fabrics and raw material were widely available which made garments and changed the social status associated when wearing them, however, peasants costumes were relatively unchanged during this period. The…

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    The effect of the Crusades in the 21st century, they myths, and the facts that are difficult to understand about the Crusades continue to fascinate people in the present-day. In my essay I will be talking about myths associated with the Crusades which include the Children’s Crusade, the motivation of the Crusaders to take the cross in order to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims, and the pope called a Crusade against the Jews (Madden, 2002). The effect of the Crusades is the split of the Church…

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    Kingdom Of Heaven

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    Directed by Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven is one of the greatest films made by the film company Fox, which is based on the real story of the Crusaders. The film started with the unwilling entry to the Crusades of the protagonist Balian, a French blacksmith whose wife killed herself and who wanted to find outlet of his emotion and find salvation from his fault of killing his half brother in a moment of rage by fighting the holy war to protect the holy land of Jerusalem. When he reached Godfrey…

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    Christ. It was a military order founded during crusades that set the beginning of today’s military orders. The Knights Templar was established on purpose. Its main role was to protect Christian pilgrims on their way to the holy land. The Knights Templar grew faster and became wealthier after a short period of time, thus becoming prominent. Their growth did not please their enemies at all, and so they were accused of false actions, such as blasphemy and crusade failures. This order did not go on…

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    The speech at the Council of Clermont by pope Urban II was the defining moment in Crusades ideology, creating the foundation for the first large scale Crusades to take place. With the newly found five accounts of the Council I’ll try to paint an accurate picture as possible of what exactly occurred. There is no official transcript from pope Urban II; instead these documents provide first hand accounts of what occurred. Whether they are reliable or not is another matter. Since each document…

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    The First Crusade had many parties involved like the Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Byzantine citizens. From these parties, Muslims and Christians had both unfavorable views of each other and antagonistic relationships. The relationship between the Christians and Jews was one of the killer and killed and the Jews reacted with dread, terror, and resentment. The Byzantine emperor considered the Christians family and considered the thought of killing them in battle “fratricide” . During the First…

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    during the Scholastic movement. The church would often use Aquinas to defend the church in scholarly settings, and used his writings to teach incoming priests. During his time of writing one of his most famous works, Summa Theologica, the seventh crusade was coming to an end. This was also at a time where the Papacy was struggling to spread their claim farther and farther away from rome. Often attempting to accomplishing this through conquests on the basis that it was justified warfare. Thomas…

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    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 crusades. The…

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    In this paper I would like to explain the first Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem using both Muslim and Christian sources, and to focus on pointing out the taking of the city and the similarities and differences in these sources. As Ibn Al-Athir was a bystander for the Third Crusade. He is the most accurate narrative from the Muslim point of view for the three crusades and he was able to write the history of the Muslim world. The franks overthrow Jerusalem by moving on to there after…

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