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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…

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    reestablish Roman Catholic Christianity in the eastern Mediterranean basin. The Crusades are also referred as the expeditions that Roman Catholic Christians mounted in the effort to recapture Palestine, the land of Christian origins, and the holy city Jerusalem from Muslim authorities. The Crusades were ruthless, bloody and violent wars that disrupted the western hemisphere for over 200 years. Even though that the Crusades brought violence and death to the world there were many positive aspects…

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    #1: Their influence was felt most by the people of the places and cities being raided at the time. In the excerpt from the Annals of St. Vaast, it emphasizes that these Vikings, “[d]estroyed houses, and razed monasteries and churches to the ground, and brought to their death the servants of our holy religion by famine and sword, or sold them beyond the sea” (Issue of the Day Para: 2). These raids by the Vikings most likely negatively effected those countries’ political and military development…

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    The Crusades Causes

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    to take control of Jerusalem and away from the Muslims, but there were other reasons why European knights and other people wanted to fight. The causes of the crusades were that Pope Urban II called for a holy crusade after the Byzantine Empire’s emperor asked him for help in regaining land for the Christians who lost the battle of Manzikert against the turks who were Muslims and the Byzantine Empire. The outcomes of the Crusades were that the Muslims entered the city of Jerusalem and took…

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    The Crusades DBQ

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    Fighting North, South, East, and West, but was all of this fighting really worth the pain? The Crusades were a series of expeditions sent by the leaders of each force to take back what was previously stolen from them; the Holy Land. Having control over Jerusalem was all that they craved. After time, this brings historians to question the fact of whether this was truly a fight that rooted from the love of religion or the love of economic power. While the word ‘crusade’ is defined as a military…

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    European Manor System

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    “God wills it!” was the cry of thousands of Christian warriors as they began the two hundred year battle with the Muslims to take back what they believed was their Holy Land. The Muslims had taken control of this land and put an end to Christian pilgrimages. This incited the furor of Pope Urban II, who declared the war which became known as The Crusades. The long course of this battle greatly affected medieval Europe and its civilization, and continues to stir up conflict and controversy in…

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