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Title: The Crusades


1
The Crusades
  • Unit 2, Chapter 6, Section 2
  • Unit 2, Chapter 9, Section 4
  • 4.1.2 and 4.3.5

2
The Cause
  • Definition A series of conflicts between
    Christian armies and Muslim armies
  • The holy land is occupied by Muslim forces
    (seljuk Turks)
  • Byzantine (Christian) leader Alexius I asks all
    of Europe for help to reclaim the land
  • Subsequent military engagements known as Crusades

3
How do we get Christians to believe in this?
  • All who dieshall have immediate remission of
    sins.
  • Pope Urban II
  • It is the will of God, it is the will of God.

4
The First Crusade
  • 1099 European Crusaders take Jerusalem
  • Extremely bloody
  • Set up smaller states around Jerusalem surrounded
    by Muslim territory

5
The Second Crusade
  • Muslims retake one of the Crusader states
  • Second Crusade formed but fails miserably
  • 1187 Saladin takes back Jerusalem
  • Basis of the film Kingdom of Heaven

6
Third Crusade
  • 1189 Christians arrive, capture coastal cities
    but cannot retake Jerusalem
  • Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted) negotiates to
    allow Christian Pilgrims access

7
Fourth Crusade
  • Roughly 1200 Italian Crusaders look to
    recapture Jerusalem
  • 1204 Crusaders attack
  • Constantinople?
  • Italy and Byzantium (Constantinople) were
    competitors in trade

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1212 The Childrens Crusade
  • Went to Italy, Pope told them to go home
  • Roughly the same time, 20,000 French kids
    promised by French ship leader to be taken to
    Holy Land
  • Seven ships, two go down in a storm, the other
    five taken to North Africa
  • The kids are then sold into slavery
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