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THE FIRST CRUSADE The First Crusade was called in November 1095 by Pope Urban II at the town of Clermont in central France. The pope made a proposal: 'Whoever for devotion alone, but not to gain honor or money, goes to Jerusalem to liberate the Church of God can substitute this journey for all penance.' This appeal was the combination of a number of contemporary trends along with the inspiration of Urban himself, who added particular innovations to the mix. For several decades Christians had…

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…

solely face life threatening problems. I think that it is a part of being human, and that no matter what situation one is in, as human beings we all face these insignificant, petty problems in our everyday lives. However in saying that something is a first world problem, it denies people in poor countries the “luxury” of having to deal with insignificant problems that agitate all of us with privileged lives. Instead it advocates for that perpetual image of people in poor countries are only…

It is quite remarkable how important the first sentence is. This soliloquy is almost like the Shakespearean sonnet, but backwards. The last line of the Shakespearean sonnet usually sums up the sonnet whereas the first line in "To be or not to be" sums up the rest of the soliloquy - though it's not a sonnet. There is no certain order in the metrics. It changes throughout the text…

The first triumvirate of Rome is a political alliance formed by Caesar, Crassus and Pompey. The main objective of the coalition is to help each other access the power they cannot obtain individually. The formation of the triumvirate is the main factor that allows Julius Caesar to besiege as dictator of Rome. Caesar is the popular political figure out of the three men. Caesar grew up without the wealth his family once had. Freeman describes Caesar as a man who made his own way up from the…

The First Crusade began in 1095, when armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to Pope Urban II’s plea to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land. After the First Crusade achieved its goal; with the Crusaders having slaughtered hundreds of men, women, and children in their invasion of the city of Jerusalem in 1099, the Christians set up several Christian states. Muslims in the region vowed to wage jihad, or Holy War, to regain control over the region. Many of the Crusaders…

First Person The moon barely lit the muddy pathway ahead. Twisted twigs and fallen branches caught my ankle and I could feel them crunch underneath my worn out sandals-making it hard to walk. There was no sensible movement for miles on the abandoned ally, it was completely vacant, except for one ancient house on the far corner of the road. The boards creaked and moaned and threatened to collapse at any given moment. My heart skipped a beat, and the inside of my stomach churned into an unpleasant…

The Crusades were a Religious military conflict between Christian and Islamic forces for control of the holy lands. Though there was multiple crusades I will be only looking at the first crusades which lasted from 1095-1100. I will be looking to see if the crusades, even though very deadly wars, Benefited the world as a whole from the more connected world that would become after the crusades. The crusades when launched in 1095 by Pope Urban to stop the Muslim expansion into the Byzantine…

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…

Crusaders (Kohler, 2013). This crusade commenced a new phase of affiliation among the West and the Near East. The first Crusade represented the war against the Muslim to aid Byzantines to take back control over the Holy Land. Many innocent people were tortured and many were slaughtered. The effects of the Crusades formed many important historical factors. It is said that the first Crusade started after Byzantine Empire was overthrown by the Muslims. The Muslims destroyed the “Church of the…