Albigensian Crusade

The Crusades were a series of four Holy Wars that that were intended to reestablish Roman Catholic Christianity in the eastern Mediterranean basin. The Crusades are also referred as the expeditions that Roman Catholic Christians mounted in the effort to recapture Palestine, the land of Christian origins, and the holy city Jerusalem from Muslim authorities. The Crusades were ruthless, bloody and violent wars that disrupted the western hemisphere for over 200 years. Even though that the Crusades…

confront the Turkish threat. Little did he know that his cry for help would casue one of the biggest power struggles in history. Religious confliction, Pope Urban II, and the fight for the Holy Land all lead to what we know now as the Battle of the Crusades. The city of Jerusalem has held significant value to Christians for many centuries, being the birthplace of Lord Jesus Christ it became known as the Holy Land. Amongst Christians…

the Muslim militarization might have affected western civilizations’ subsequent response by raising funds for a military that could combat growing Muslim armies and invasions. These incursions also likely led to the same growing response of the crusades with the developing identity of the Latin Church under Papal leadership that fortified the connection between Western Christendom and…

I believe the Crusades were mainly the series of religious wars. Which was taken by the Latin Church between the 11th and 15th centuries. For example, the Christian knights had waged a war against the Muslims in Jerusalem in an attempt to reclaim the Holy Land. Also the reason why they waged a war was so they could gain more control. The Pope Urban ll declared the First Crusade in 1095 AD by giving the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, which had made an huge impact. Due to the speech…

opinion as to why the Crusades began, some historians state that the cause of these massive military attacks launched by Western Europe on the vast Islamic territories for over a span of two hundred years, was mainly religion. This claim being supported more so by the Christian historians, a huge number of Muslim historians conclude that the underlying factor was after all gaining power, land and wealth on the part of the Christians. If one was to list down the causes of these Crusades, they…

Prompt A1: The Seljuk Turks were an Islamic tribe in Persia during the early eleventh century that began to expand westward. In 1071 CE, at the Battle of Manzikert, the Byzantine army battled the Seljuk Turks. Romanus IV, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was killed and his army obliterated. The Turks expanded their empire into Anatolia, Syria, Jerusalem, and throughout the Holy Land. Turkish zealots prevented Christian pilgrims from visiting Jerusalem and other places Christians…

West, but was all of this fighting really worth the pain? The Crusades were a series of expeditions sent by the leaders of each force to take back what was previously stolen from them; the Holy Land. Having control over Jerusalem was all that they craved. After time, this brings historians to question the fact of whether this was truly a fight that rooted from the love of religion or the love of economic power. While the word ‘crusade’ is defined as a military journey caused by a religious issue…

and launches one of the most famous string of wars in world history, the Crusades. The main objective of the Crusades was to retake the holy land in the Middle-East. The Crusades were a series of holy wars which began in 1095 when Pope Urban II made a plea to retake Jerusalem and the holy lands. In total there were eight Crusades lasting around 196 years, however, the last five Crusades were very ineffective and the first Crusade was the only holy war which was a success in taking Jerusalem.…

The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to get control of holy places considered sacred by both groups. There were 9 crusades total. It lasted from 1095-1291. It lasted 4 decades. The entire structure of the European society changed during the 12th and 13th centuries. The word crusade comes from the Latin word crux, meaning cross. The Christian warriors called Crusaders wore the cross as a symbol. Seljuk Turks took control of the Holy places…

1) What are some of the factors that best explain why societies in Europe developed around the Manor system in the 10th and 11th centuries? The first factor was they applied three-field system in agriculture. It meant people would divide their lands into three fields. Two fields was used for planting crops like peas, wheat, and the third one was a fallow field. However, three fields were switched for every season. For example, the field was used to use for planting crop in this season, would…