Crusades

follow into present time or long enough to make a difference. Event such as wars and death shaped the world people live in today, from decisions that affected all kinds of lives and the future of those people. Events such as the Bubonic plague, The Crusades, and Christianity. These events didn’t have to be good but they were significant enough to change how things happened to the people of today. The ideas and new advancements that these events brought to humans, and even catastrophe. The…

The crusades are an example of this power, with over five major crusades and numerous other, smaller crusades that the Church commanded. The crusades started in 1095 when Pope Urban the second encouraged Christian kings to win back Jerusalem from the Seljuk Muslims who had taken the land in 1065 and had been killing Christian…

metres, a longbow arrow penetrated over one inch of solid oak – more than sufficient power to penetrate the armour worn by soldiers” (historylearningsite). But little do you know, that the longbow wasn’t even used in Jerusalem until after the second crusades took place. Supposedly the longbow was created in Wales and shortly after moved its way to England. So guess what that means, they didn't have these longbows back then to use in “Kingdom of Heaven.” Hollywood just saw it and was like, heck…

with disease due to lack of sanitation, this would lead to the black death. There were also no antibiotics or medicine, the only cures to illness were from ancient teachings of people like Aristotle. The cause of the Crusades was when the Christians and Muslims began a war. The…

of the Roman pontiff and that the popes were responsible for the right order in the world, which could only be obtained through righteous Christian violence directed by the papacy, forms the basis for the Crusades. What must be stressed is the fact that the appeal for the First Crusade made by Pope Urban II can be neither isolated, nor minimized from the host of conflicts and clashes with European secular rulers and its quest for religious…

Although the Crusades illustrated a new spirit of adventure among European kings, princes, and knights, when analyzed in their entirety, the Crusades were hardly a total success. If anything, the Crusades hardened the sense of "holy war" between the Christian west and Islamic east. The political, economic, and military institution known as feudalism slowly…

The crusades had many things that motivated people to fight in the crusades. People saw an economical, political and religious reward that came with fighting in the crusades. From the crusades wealth and status would be affected because they would be able to trade the things that was taken from the city. Land could be gained and power would increase, people saw this as a political gain coming from the crusades. The Pope also promised many religious benefits from the crusades. He promised that…

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…

peasants were killed. The crusades were a series of many wars where europeans, peasants, knights, and all others went to fight against muslims over the holy land in the middle east. Very few of these campaigns actually succeeded in gaining any land and only the first one succeeded in gaining the holy city (Jerusalem). Many people went on these crusades unprepared and were slaughtered. old women were sometimes kidnapped by knights and used as servants by knights. The people's crusade, formed of…

Ayyub´s son Saladin; his ambition to expand this new empire is really a serious matter that we need to face in order to recover our territory and secure of christian states near them. Also, the Byzantine empire posses a neutral position in this crusade, we must ensure an alliance with them in order to get the middle east in the less disruptive way. Using our connections with my…