Eichmann in Jerusalem

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. People who took up the cross to fight for the church were called crusaders; motivated by the religious and economic gains of the…

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…

Between the eleventh century and the thirteenth century, Muslims and Christians, they had nine wars. They call they wars to be known as, they Crusades. Crusades were basically a raid, Crusaders would go on a long journey just to fight, sneak attacks, and the results of the crusades was either more negative or positive which is our important question. The Crusades were left in the dark on history that failed to be Crusades, meet their goal, but mainly crusades had a negative history. These are…

middle of the eleventh century, Seljuk Turks destroyed the Byzantine army in the Battle of Manzikert and then conquered Asia Minor (modern day Turkey); a further encroachment into the Byzantine Empire territory. By 1079 AD, the Seljuks conquered Jerusalem, thus wresting control of the Holy Land from the Christians. Faced with the Islamic aggression and expansion, Byzantine (Eastern) Emperor Alexius I appealed to Pope Urban II (who led Western Christendom) to support the Emperor’s efforts in…

they both were defeated by Seljuq Turks. Both Louis and Conard and the remaining army they had all made it to Jerusalem. In 1148 they went on to try to attack the city of Damascus, they were defeated and this led to the fall of crusader controlled Jerusalem. In the 12th century the third crusade was started and it was aimed to get the “Holy” lands back and to reclaim the “Holy” City of Jerusalem. Again led by a European King, not French or German, this time it was a young English King by the…

What, then, would be the occasion for composition? It can be agreed by most all scholars that this psalm existed during or for use in a festival. Whether it was for a singular, specific festival or for a regularly occurring festival is hard to establish. It could have been composed as a dedication of the second temple. More likely, however, is the idea that this psalm originated from a regularly occurring festival. This festival could be an enthronement festival, and autumnal festival, the…

Niena was abandoned on the doorstep of the Svastra temple before her first birthday. She barely remembered her parents; they were dark, shadowy ghosts, flickers of partial recognition in the back of her consciousness. After all, in Apitus, the capital had a luxurious temple, full of women who all prayed to the old gods, the gods of air, land, and sea, the slumbering, powerful beings that could destroy just as they could create. At the time, Niena sensed a comforting essence about the place, a…

In ANE literature, tablets are both a medium for writing, and a symbol of writing itself, but writing gains authority through message or author. Adoption and sale tablets, Suzerainty treaties, and written prayers laid beside idols exemplify authority by a message. In them, the authority emanated from the confines of the writing dictating relationships between parties. Orpheus tablets typify the second condition by the issue of pseudepigraphical authorship (as discussed under the subheading,…

In the real history of Crusades the king Philip II who is the Christian believer and the leader of the Christians but in the movie kingdom of Heaven he doubt in the Christian. In the Crusades there he controlled the Jerusalem, as the place where Christ lived and died and held a central role. In the middle ages the Christians were attacked by the Muslims and conquered the Holy land and later there was a war against the Palestine by the king Philip and Knights Templar.…

Christians were impatient to take back Jerusalem which is known as their holy land. The church had the power to Knights, Chiefs and even Popes that were impatient to transfer their religion to other nations. The Islamic militaries were full of power an energy and took over North Africa and most of Spain. When the first crusade started, a request came from Pope Urban II to the Christian armies to go fight against the Muslim armies in the holy land, Jerusalem. When the first crusade captured…