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    In the year 1202 a new crusade was made and it was called the Fourth Crusade. The fourth crusade was created in 1202 and ended in 1204. It only lasted for two years and in those two years they did many things. The genuine creator of the Fourth Crusade was the well known as Pope Innocent III. Youthful, excited, and driven for the greatness of the Papacy, he revived the arrangements of Pope Urban II and looked for afresh to join the strengths of Christendom against Islam. No ruler or lord…

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    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…

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    The Crusaders continued to try and obtain Jerusalem from Saladin. The leaders of the crusaders, however, were aware that once they conquered the city, the Crusaders would break up, most of the army moving West. They tried delaying the attack, in order to recover as much territory as they could, in order to assure the basis for attaining the Kingdom. However, the crusaders were lacking funds, thus they could not delay much longer. Nevertheless, on June 1192, there was another advance on Jerusalem…

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    feel threatened leading to an outburst of violence. The main goals of the crusades were to retake the Holy Land of Jerusalem and to stop muslim expansion (Madden). The crusades we will be focusing on during this paper are the first, second, third and fourth crusades. The First Crusade was called by Pope Urban II November, 1095 in the town of Clermont (Phillips). Urban II saw the Crusades as a way to stop the sinful knights of Europe from fighting eachother and…

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    Hermit Vs Crusades

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    The Medieval period or the Middle Ages occurred from the 5th to the 15th century. It started with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended with the merge into the Renaissance time. Crusades mainly happen because of the expansion of the Muslim Empire that took control of Jerusalem, not permitting pilgrims into Jerusalem. Crusades were expeditions in Medieval period called by popes to recover Christian properties and those who participated took vows and were promised forgiveness of all their sins.…

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    Mistakes are inevitable but it is what is done with those mistakes that determines whether or not one is a good doctor. Practicing is what doctors do in order to learn, one cannot learn if they are not practicing. When one practices they will make mistakes in order to become a better doctor. In the book Complications by Atul Gawande, Gawande gives his personal accounts of his seven year residency and the anecdotes from other doctor's careers to support the sundry of arguments he makes, the most…

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    The people who were involved in the First Crusade were the Christians and the Muslims. This Crusade lasted from 1095–1099 and took place at the Holy Land in Jerusalem because. In 1095, the armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to Pope Urban II’s plea to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land, this is why the First Crusade began. The Christians won The First Crusade by seizing armies on their way to take back Jerusalem. Since the crusades won their fight it encourage other…

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    Ottoman Turks’ first appearance The loom of the Ottoman came upon after the decline of the Seljurk Turks’s empire. The arrival of the first Ottomans, alias ghazis (Turkish warriors or raiders), to Anatolia (formerly called Asia Minor) was intended to evade the forces of Mongols. At first, the Turkish tribes were nomadic pastoralists but when the Seljuk Empire’s power was slowly falling apart, the Turks, under the rule of Osman, began occupying, invading other territories for power and wealth…

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    They are all equally engaging and are successful in how they present their subjects. Born on the Fourth of July is a biography of a Vietnam veteran, which is also directed by a Vietnam veteran. Suffice to say, their work is accurate, as they themselves had first-hand experience. While watching the film, the audience joins the character in his experiences…

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    Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

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