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=[|Crusades]The Five Crusades = 

The First Crusade was a key part in Midevil England. The First Crusade was an attempt to re-capture Jerusalem. After the capture of Jerusalem by the Muslims in 1076, any and all Christian who wanted to pay a pilgrimage to the city faced a very difficult time. Muslim soldiers made life very difficult for the Christians as a whole, while attempting to obtain Jerusalem which was filled with danger for a Christian. This angered all Christians. The Second crusade did not really help the Christian presence in the middle east..The crusaders attacked Damascus, a Muslim city that had been allied to the Christians until the attack. The attack on Damascus probably also helped Nur al-Din gain control of Damascus in 1154. Nur al-Din was the son of Zangi and inherited Aleppo from his father. It is important to note that the majority of the crusaders during this period crusaded either in Iberia or on the eastern border of Germany against the Slavs and Wends.  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 real man 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 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 socalled Children's Crusade shows at once the religious enthusiasm and misdirected zeal which showed the whole crusading movement. During the time between the Fourth and the Fifth Crusade, the eventf that had so long agitated Europe seized upon the children, ended in what is known as the Children's Crusade.

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