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​__THE CRUSADES!!!!!!!!__ ​ __The First Crusades__ The first crusades [|first crusades] The first Crusades were played as a big part of England in the medieval times. The reason for the first Crusades was because of the attempt to re- capture Jerusalem. After the capture of Jerusalem the Mulslims in 1076 any Christians whom wanted to pay a pilgrimage to the city had a very hard time. The Muslim soldiers made life for the Christians very difficult. They did this because they were Christians, and trying to get to Jerusalem was a very difficult and dangerous task for the Christian people. This act of the Muslims angered all Christians. One Christian Alexius of Constantinople was afraid that his country would fall to the Muslims since there territory was fairly close to the territory the Muslims had already took over. He decided to build an army to go to war with the Muslims so that the Christian people would not loose the Christian faith. In his speech he said " The pope told the people that if they died in combat they would automatically go to heaven because they were fighting for God. By 1097 nearly 10,000 people gathered to go on the journey to the holy land. No one was in charge of this first crusade. everyone just walked with on another. The first target of the Crusaders was the important city of Nicea. This city was taken by the Crusaders without too much trouble as the man in charge of it was off fighting in a different war! The next target for the Crusaders was Antioch. A strongly protected Turkish city. It took a seven month time period before the city fell. The Christians not only wanted the Muslims out of Jerusalem but out of the entire region. there war did not stop there it went on to a second crusade.
 * **"Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned." ** ||

__The Second Crusades__ the second crusades the second crusades crusade game __The Third Crusades__ The Third Crusades the third crusade ** Not many years after the Second Crusade, the Moslem world found in the famous Saladin a leader for a holy war against the Christians. Saladin in character was a typical Mohammedan, very devout in prayers and fasting, fiercely hostile toward unbelievers, and full of the pride of race. To these qualities he added a kindliness and humanity not surpassed, if equaled, by any of his Christian foes. The Third Crusade was caused by the capture of Jerusalem in 1187 by Saladin, the sultan of Egypt. **
 * The success of the Christians in the First Crusade had been largely due to the disunion among their enemies. But the Moslems learned in time the value of united action, and in 1144 A.D. succeeded in capturing Edessa, one of the principal Christian outposts in the East. The fall of the city of Edessa, followed by the loss of the entire county of Edessa, aroused western Europe to the danger which threatened the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and led to another crusading enterprise. **

__The Fourth Crusades__ The Fourth Crusades the fourth crusade  **The real author of the Fourth Crusade was the famous pope, Innocent III. Young, enthusiastic, and ambitious for the glory of the Papacy, he revived the plans of Pope Urban II and sought once more to unite the forces of Christendom against Islam. No emperor or king answered his summons, but a number of knights (chiefly French) took the crusader's vow. None of the Crusades, after the Third, effected much in the Holy Land; either their force was spent before reaching it, or they were diverted from their purpose by different objects and ambitions. The crusaders of the Fourth expedition captured Constantinople instead of Jerusalem.** __The Chrildrens Crusades__ The Chrildrens Crusades The Chrildrens Crusades In 1212, two groups - one from France, the other from Germany - set off on a crusade to the Holy Land. There was nothing unusual about this as many 'armies' had gathered before to fight the Muslims. The major difference about these two groups was that they were composed entirely of young children. These children became convinced that they would be protected by God and that because of this protection they would get to the Holy Land and take Jerusalem for the Christians. The Work Sited the first crusade Truman, Chris. "the first page." //http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ cru2.htm//. N.p., 28 Apr. 2010. Web. 27 Apr. 2010. the second crusades Orthodox. "http://www.google.com/ images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=the+second+crusades&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= &safe=active." //google//. N.p., 28 Apr. 2010. Web. 29 Apr. 2010.