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- In 1071 the Seljuk Turks took over Jerusalem. The Turks harrassed pilgrims and marched on the Christian city of Constintonople. So the Byzantine Emperor asked Pope Urban II for help.#160; Pope Urband called for the first crusade to free the Hold Land. People answered the popes call with enthusiasm. Their slogan was Deus le veult which means God wills it!
- AHHHHHH!!!
- Perhaps as many as 150,000 people huried to join the crusades. The first group of crusaders to leave for the Holy Land was a ragged group of peaasents led by Peter the Hermit. Peters army consisted of untrained men, women , and children.
- We must invade the Holy City!
- Despite setbacks, the First Crusade was a military sucess. The crusaders had one important advantage, they took the Muslim Kingdom by surprise. By 1099, the crusaders had captured Jerusalem and established four crusader staes in the Holy Land. The crusaders also turned back the Turk's advance on Constantinople.
- King Louis VII of France and the German emperor organized the Second Crusade. Other monarchs, such as King Louis' wife, Elenor of Aquitaine, also joined this crusade. But despite its powerful backing, the Second crusade failed. The resason this one failed was because of the Crusaders leaders argued. The crusaders, who often treated the Muslim majoirty of Palestine with disrespect and even cruelty, wqere unable to gain local support.
- Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor attempted a third crusade to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of jerusalem. In September 1192, Richard and Saladin signed a peace treaty that reestablished the Kingdom of Jerusalem (though without the city of Jerusalem) and ended the Third Crusade
- The successes of the Third Crusade allowed Westerners to maintain considerable states in Cyprus and on the Syrian coast. The failure to re-capture Jerusalem inspired the subsequent Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204, but Europeans would only regain the city—and only briefly—in the Sixth Crusade in 1229.
- Yay we reconquered jerusalem
- Woooo
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