Byzantine Empire

At the end of the 11th century, Western Europe had emerged as a significant power, causing a considerable amount of territory loss for the Byzantine Empire. After years of destruction and chaos from the civil war between the Seljuk Turks, General Alexius Comnenus sent envoys to Pope Urban II pleading for help to 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…

In 1095, Pope Urban II called for a crusade to fight for the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Before the Crusades began, Alexius I Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, asked Pope Urban II for help to fight against the Seljuq Turks. The Seljuq Turks had previously taken all of Asia Minor from him. At the council of Clermont, Pope Urban II confronted a decently sized crowd and promoted the idea of everyone going over to recover Palestine by assisting the Greeks defeat the Muslims. The response was…

As Islam grew from being a small Saudi Arabian religion to one of the largest conquering religions in the world in committed a lot of change through the christian based Europe. Before Islam had taken over the territory was mostly just nomadic tribes for a very long time. Islam reached Western Europe through Spain having crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from North Africa. From Spain, it spread across the Pyrenees until the Franks routed the Muslim armies at the Battle of Tours in 732. Islam…

My loyal vassals, Pope Urban II has given us a challenge. A new group of muslims had conquered the Holy Land. They do not let our people go there on pilgrimages. They also are threatening our ally, the byzantine empire. Even though they split our church, we should find it in our hearts to help them. The Pope has challenged us to stop fighting among ourselves, but to fight our common enemy. It is our right to visit our shrines and the muslims took it away. The Pope is assembling and army to go on…

The First Crusade The first crusade was called together by Pope Urban II, as their first attempt at taking the Holy Lands in 1095. It began as a widespread pilgrimage, in western christendom. It however ended with Roman Catholic Europe, trying to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest of the Levant. The Second Crusade A French monk, who went by the name, 'Peter the Hermit', created a mixed up army, that consisted of soldiers and peasants. Peter and his army created a People's…

from a subcontinent that was politically and culturally unified under a polytheistic faith, Hinduism; whereas the Greek mathematics came largely from the Byzantium Empire which adhered to the following of the monotheistic Orthodox Church. Although the Ancient Greek texts themselves were from polytheistic writers, the Byzantine Empire that was distributing and propagating them fit the criterion for Islamic toleration. The translation movement led to remarkable ideas being uncovered for the…

that Pope Urban II indicated at the Council of Clermont in 1095 that crusaders would be coming to the aid of Christians in the Byzantine Empire. He reported in his speech that the people of Persia, who were actually Turks and not Persians, had taken so much land from the Greek empire that it would take months to walk through it. It is also true that, at this time, the Byzantine emperor, Alexius I, called for the help of Christians in the West since the Seljuk Turks of Central Asia, having…

the vassal and his lord (the giver of property). Feudalism also changed the way England was ruled, the papacy and religious reform, and sparked the crusades. Feudalism was a custom of the Middle ages, it began after the collapse of the Roman Empire. It developed around the 8th century and reached it’s peak and began to decline in the…

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…

While there have been many events that have taken place in Medieval Europe such as the fall of the Rome Empire, one of the most famous events to have occurred in the High Middle Ages was one that would bring Western Europe and the Middle East together in a violent religious clash that would become known in Medieval History as the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of religious wars which spanned from 1095-1291, that were fought between the Christian armies of the Europe and the Muslim armies…