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4th crusade game​ The Crusades​ By London Thatch and Maddie Babcock __** The First Crusade **__: First crusade 2 First Crusade 2 The first crusade was a religious battle between Christian forces and Muslim armies. Muslims had captured Jerusalem and they had been making life very difficult for Christians. Any Christians who wanted to make the pilgrimage to the holy city faced great danger. One Christian named Alexius I of Constantinople, was afraid that the Muslims were going to take over their territory. So he called upon a Pope named Pope Urban II to help. He went and made a great speech trying to get an army together. This made it seem like if any one had ever done anything bad or wrong in their life, if they went on this pilgrimage, all would be forgiven. Because of what he said, many people did end up volunteering for the First Crusade. Many people actually did go for what they believed in. They were going to reclaim Jerusalem for their belief. The pope had also told them that if they were killed they would automatically go to heaven because they were fighting for God. By 1097 nearly 10'000 people had gathered in Constantinople (First Crusades 1). The crusaders reached Jerusalem in May 1098. They conquered Jerusalem and they settled and established their own colonies.

__**The Second Crusade:**__ GAME! Second crusade Basic Info In the year 1144 A.D. the Muslims had successfully captured Edessa, which was one of the main and most important Christian out posts in the East. In addition to that, almost the entire population was killed or sold into slavery. This got the concern of western Europe and they decided to launch a Second crusade. This crusade lasted from 1145 A.D. to 1149 A.D. Like the first Crusade things were repeated in the west ST. Bernard an eloquent monk went everywhere arousing the warriors of the cross, to the defence of the birthplace of their religion. The reason the second didn't workout as planned was because Louis and Conards joint attack on Damascus to raise the seige after a few days which closed the crusade. The crusade at the time had accomplished nothing.

__The Third Crusade:__ third crusade The third crusade was caused by the capture of Jerusalem in 1187 by Saladin the sultan of Egypt. The Christians met him in a great battle by the lake of Galilee and it ended by the route of their army and their King being captured. Saladin was pleased by the victory and even Jerusalem surrendered after a short siege. During this crusade, the Christians did some unthinkable things. They had rounded up all the Jewish people in the city and locked them in a church and burnt it down. They also, throughout the cursades, they would cut people's bodies up and let all the random body parts just lay in the streets for everyone to see. Towards the end though King Richard and Saladin made a truce that Christians were permitted to visit Jerusalem without paying tribute, had free access to holy places, and what was left to the undisturbed possession of the coast from Jaffa to Tyre. When King Richard left for England the third crusade came to an end.

​__Fourth Crusade:__ Fourth Crusade The year was 1202 and 200+ ships set out for sail. The mission? To recapture Jerusalem in the ongoing battle with the Muslims. The man leading the mission was a duke of the Venetian Republic named Doge Enrico Dandolo. He was almost 80 years old and was nearly blind. The new goal of the Fourth Crusade was to strike Egypt at the base of the Muslim power. However, the direction of attack was shifted to the Christian city Constantinople. It was in fact origionally started in the year 1199 at a jousting tournament held by Thibaut in northern France. The journey included 33'500 men, 4'500 horses and 20'000 men on foot. The city of Constantinople was deterriorated down to a little less than can be called a city. The attacking forces took money, riches and jewls. They attacked their own kind for money when the origional plan of attack was aimed for the muslims. A devistating mishap or sidetrack led to the downfall of Constantinople. The city was destroyed and betrayed by their own religion. The reason for the very first crusade was because of the fear of Muslim attacks, yet in the end they were attacked by none other than Christians themselves.

__Children's Crusade__:Children's crusade It was 1212 and the two main groups of crusaders now were the French and German. So what's new right? Another crusade? This time, the crusaders were children who thought that if they crusaded they would be protected by God and get the holy land and Jerusalem for the Christians. In charge was no King or Noble, it was 12 year old Stephen of cloyes. He had told King Philip of France that a letter by Christ was ordering him to lead a crusade. When Philip said no, Stephen went around talking about what Christ wanted. 30'000 kids gathered around him to listen to his call. Bound to fail, the journey went from Vendome to Marseilles made many children drop out. Some died of exhaustion. They had to cross the Medeterranian sea by boat. Two of the Seven ships sunk, the other Five were captured by pirates and the children were sold into slavery. However, another boy named Nicholas lead 20'000, not all children. Many of them died of cold and other disasters and the survivors were pushed into Rome and Italy. Both were disasters. People did not stop the crusades because they were fearful that they would shame the Emperors and Kings into getting a proper crusade going to recapture Jersalem.

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