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  • In 1095, Pope Urban II called for a crusade to free the Holy Land. He called on the soldiers of Christ to defend Constantinople. And liberate Jerusalem from the Turks.
  • I call for a crusade To free the holy land!!!! We must defend Constantinople.
  • As many as 150,000 people hurried to join. Despite all the setbacks all the First Crusade was a military success. By 1099, the crusaders had captured Jerusalem. They had captured four crusader states.#160; They also turned back the advance on Constantinople.
  • Pope Urban II called for the second crusade.#160; King Louis VII of France and the German emperor organized the Second Crusade. Other monarchs, such as King Louis' wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine also joined the Crusade.
  • I call for a second crusade!!!!!!! Because I am alarmed at the fall of Edessa.
  • Saladin and Richard signed a truce. Which ended the third crusade. Pilgrims were free to travel, and Saladin agreed to respect crusader lands.
  • I will sign a truce!!!! That will finally end the Third Crusade.
  • Me too!!!
  • I'm not making it.
  • thousands of children marched towards the holy land in 1212. Now it is known as the children's Crusade. Although, almost none of them made it.#160;
  • We will make it to the holy land!!!!!!
  • I'M SO EMBARRASSED!!
  • The fourth Crusade embarrassed the pope who had launched it. The crusaders never reached the Holy Land. Instead, they tried to fund their looting Christian cities along the route