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The Crusades of the Old Days

​ The First Crusade In the first crusade there was a very difficult journey getting to the middle east. It was difficult because they could not cross the port on the coast of the middle east. It was becoming a big disaster as they were traveling because they started to run out of fresh water and their food supply was low, so they started to catch diseases from their low supply. Around 1097 about 10,000 people gathered in Constantinople because they were ready to go on the journey to the holy land. There really wasn’t a main ruler in the crusades anyone just took over. The crusaders first target was the important fortress city of Nicea. There wasn’t that much trouble when it was taken over. The next target for the Crusaders was Antioch. It was a strongly protected Turkish city. After the attack on Antioch, their next target was Jerusalem. The attack and capture on Jerusalem started in 1099. Jerusalem was defended really well with walls and guards. The crusades did not succeed their first time because they were low on supplies. A monk called fulcher wrote about the attacks and claimed that once the crusaders defeated Jerusalem, muslim defenders ran away. After the success of the Crusaders, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was created and the first king was Godfrey of Bouillon. The capture of Jerusalem did not end the crusades as the crusaders wanted to get rid of the muslims from the whole region.

The Second Crusade The Christians in the first crusade had been largely disunion by their enemies. The Muslims learned in time the value of united action. In 1144 A.D. the city of Edessa was captured. The fall of the city, followed by the loss of the entire county, aroused western Europe to the danger and threatened the latin kingdom of Jerusalem. There were religious military orders formed that were known as the Hospitallers and Templars. Later on during the third crusades there was another fraternity formed known as the Teutonic knights. It had an unhappy ending because only a few thousand crusaders escaped from the annihilation in asia at the hands of the turks.

The Third Crusade

The Crusades were a series of ruthless campains aimed at conquring the muslems and capturing Jerusalem. And the outcome was that the first and third crusade was successful and the crusade helped the end of the age of feudalism. In this crusade they brought back valuable goods that the English had never seen before such as salt and silk. The third crusade was one of the only crusades that was successful even though it did fail at its main goal. Richard and Philip managed to bring down Acre but because of an argument that they got into, Philip went home and Richard failed to conquer Jerusalem.however, Richard did make a peace treaty with saladin, one of the rulers, allowing pilgrims to go into the holy city.

The Fourth Crusade The Fourth Crusade was actually started in 1199 at a jousting tournament held by Thibaut, Count of Champagne. It was started in northern France, and there in a sudden wave of emotion, the knights fell to their knees and were wheeping to go to the holy land. They swore solemn oaths to go as armed pilgrims to wrest it from the infidels. Months later, the crusades took form in a series of feudal assemblies. Rather than wearing their army out they reached Egypt by sea. A delegation of six trusted knights went to Venice, the leading seafaring city of Western Europe. They went there to arrange for passage. Later there was a chronicle written of the expedition.

The Children's Crusade

Little is known of the return journey. Many of the children who went in the crusade, especially the girls, could not face again the ardours of the road and stayed behind in some Italian town or village. A few stragglers found their way home in the spring.but not many made it back. They were not successful at all. But the angry parents whose children had perished insisted on the arrest of his father, who had, it seems, encouraged the boy out of vainglory. He was taken and hanged. The second company of German pilgrims was no more fortunate. It was not the little children that would rescue Jerusalem. . ..

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