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The Real story about the Crusades The Crusades were a series of wars set out to reclaim the holy land and not the outcome of greed and want for power of the Christian Church. Before the time of the Crusades the Christians that lived had no arguments with the muslims. Before the year 1200, 9 out of 10 people living in Europe were peasant farmers who had barely anything to live on (Biel). This meant that many of the people living in Crusading time were poor and had nothing. They didn’t have…

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The Crusades is an interesting topic that many people have never heard of, although they changed history. They were a series of seven battles that lasted two centuries. It greatly affected life in Europe, and it all started with a man named Pope Urban II, who showed significant care for his religion. Christians during the Middle Ages always wished to have control over their holy city of Jerusalem, where Jesus had lived his whole life in. They took their religion, Christianity, seriously,…

Though the events leading up to the Crusades can be identified as far back as when the Muslim had first conquered the Holy Land in 637 AD, the aggression of the Turks against the Christians and the Byzantine Empire in the late 11th century can be argued to be the direct proximate cause leading to the Crusades. For one, the Turks looked to expand their territory and unfortunately came across Jerusalem, which was, at the time, an established Muslim community with a mix of Christians who were…

IKEA has created a global marketing strategy based upon its original business model developed in Sweden over 70 years ago, which focused on offering quality, low price products to the mass population. When entering developed markets, such as the U.S. and western nations, IKEA applies this globalized marketing strategy with very similar products, branding, positioning, and minor customizations made to appeal to consumers in each region. More recently, IKEA has started entering emerging markets…

Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. This is a book about a society in the future that tries to make it the perfect utopia. Everything about their society has changed, and it is strongly based off of Henry Ford’s invention, the assembly line. Many of their values, along with their social classes are very different compared to those in the United States. The book takes place in what they call The World State, which is actually the planet. Throughout Brave New World there…

Chiara Dituri Final paper The modern literature “To the Light House” by Virginia Woolf and “The Waste Land” by T.S Eliot directly correlates the perspective of World War I and its effect on both life and death. Both authors use stream of consciousness as a way to show multiple perspectives on thoughts of confusion, trauma and chaos that World War I has impacted on many lives. The loss of loved once during war times, is a painful experience that can bring on psychological and painful events…

old, Joshua’s replaced Moses as leader of the Israelites. Joshua came after the older faithless generation who God had commanded to conquer the promise land (Cannon) failed to obey as God had commanded. Upon the death of the last of the unbelieving generation Joshua was allowed to lead the younger generation across the Jorden into the Promised Land. Joshua’s success in his conquests came as product of his obedience and submission to God as well as submission to his instructor. When God spoke,…

no one owns the land. We are just caring for the land that we are currently living upon.INTERVIEWER:Alright, what are your thoughts, gentlemen?JACOB SMITH:I would have to assume the ones who started building a community and homes on that land would be the ones who are in ownership of it. If you put something that you built with your own two hands and had help from the men in your community doing so then it would be your land. If there were Native Americans living upon that land before you had…

The incoming crusaders had negitive effects on the lands they traversed. The Emperor realized to late he did not want the West 's help, the crusaders could turn on him and greatly outnumbered his army. This is apparent though Alexius ' daughter, she writes “he (Alexius) dreaded their arrival for he knew…