Fourth Crusade

In order to investigate how the expansion and approval of the Mongolian Empire and the customs of its conquered countries came to change Mongolian culture, what must be analyzed is the influence of fear that the Mongolians displayed to all their enemies, the effectiveness of trade and economics thanks to new roads and connections with businesses, and the growing community of the Mongolian society with the association of many ethnicities. When Genghis Khan united the Steppes Tribes, his military…

The Crusades: A Catalyst for Exploration “God, glory, and gold--not necessarily in that order--took post-Renaissance Europeans to parts of the globe they had never before seen.”, states Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen at the beginning of their book, A Patriot’s History of the United States (Schweikart). Discoveries stemming from the Crusades’ driven hunger for gold and righteousness are explored in this paper along with contemporary examples of discoveries made to meet wartime needs.…

cities during the Crusades like; Jerusalem, Egypt, Syria and other Middle Eastern cities. During the Crusade time period (1099-1291) the Muslims succeeded in driving the Crusaders from the Middle East, even though they also lost lands on the Iberian Peninsula. They needed a new leader because the Muslims were not very strong and did not know how to defend themselves along with Islam, that is where Salah al-Din came in. Salah al-Din was the greatest Muslim leader during the Crusades. His…

The siege of Jerusalem is not just any mundane siege. In lieu of one side claiming victory, both sides had different stories themselves, rather than one linear story. From this point in the story, the three different sources from which the event is retold do not concur entirely on what transpires. The Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible tells of an angel that descended from heaven and smote the army of Sennacherib, driving him back into his maleficent capital of Nineveh (II Kings 19:35).…

The movie Kingdom Of Heaven is based in Jerusalem in 1184. During this time Jerusalem had a population greater than any European city, and had enormous cross culture significance;Judaic, Muslim, and Christian holy sites coexisted, side by side. Each believed they had a right to control Jerusalem. Peace in Jerusalem, at this time, seemed impossible. The film depicts the fight for Jerusalem in 1187 from the Christian side of the war and focuses on the political unrest of the religion. Three…

land from Islamic control. Christians referred to them as the “Holy crusades”; otherwise known as the crusades to historians. In November of 1095, the first Crusade began in response to Pope Urban II urging Christians to take back their Holy Land of Palestine out of the control of the Muslim Turks. This was the start of what would become known as the Crusades. After the first crusade, many more occurred as well. The Third Crusade resulted from the Muslim ruler Saladin’s efforts to recapture…

the commander of the crusade The medieval Christian tradition had a long path, and a complicated relationship with committing violence’s and warfare. The earlies writings concerning Christians and violence’s is from Augustus of Hippo from the fourth century C.E. that easys the notion of a just war on to humanity. I argue that the first crusade of Pope Urban II was not act out of character of Christianity and it was the currents events that are the cause for the first crusade, and the reason why…

The legacy of the Crusades, whether positive or negative, has been contested among Christians and non-Christians alike. Although there were clearly political, intellectual, and technological benefits to Europe as a result of the Crusades, can it be said that the Crusades advanced the cause of Christ? In histories which concern the medieval West the development that we call the Crusades is constantly regarded finally as a standout amongst the most imperative impacts on European life in the Middle…

The Crusades started all the way back in 1095 in the Holy Lands. Leading up to the Crusades, the Muslims rapidly expanded across the middle east and into Jerusalem and into a place called the Holy Lands. The Holy Lands are a very important religious part of the world, where there is great religious value for Christians, Muslims, and Jews. So when the Seljuk Turks, who were Muslims and were in control of the Holy Lands in 1095, limited the Christians access to their religious sites many were…

expeditions of Christian Europeans fought to conquer their Holy Land, otherwise known as the Crusades. The Holy Crusades were known to be some of the bloodiest battles fought for a lengthy time of two hundred years. At this time religion was becoming a big factor in the meaning of fighting and having a more intimate connection with God. In this paper the discussion of what kind of role religion played in the Crusades will be discussed. Between the clothing that they wore, the visions and signs…