The Crusades
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- The Start of the Crusades
- Hey Pope Urban II. So, I need some help with those pesky Seljuk Turks. You wanna unite our forces?
- Sure Alexius, I totally won't start a Crusade that will last hundreds of years. I'm your best option.
- This is my chance to regain our Holy Land of Jerusalem! I'll need to get the Lords and knights to help. This is for you God!
- The Middle of The Crusades/ The Third Crusades
- HELP!!!!!
- Why do I have to send my people here with out claiming it. I don't trust them, They may attack my people.
- I agree on the terms.
- How do I know that you won't attack us!
- The End of The Crusades/ The Children's Crusades and The Last Two
- God has told me to reclaim Jerusalem! Are you willing to fight for GOD!
- YEAH! LET"S GO GET BACK OUR LAND!!!!
- I chose this event as the start of the Crusades because when the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus was looking for help against Seljuk Turks, he went to the European Pope and sought advice. Pope Urban II saw that he could get this Emperor to help him free Jerusalem, The Holy Land, from the Seljuk Turks which were Muslim. So Pope Urban II agreed and rallied the lords and knights and the Crusades began.
- I chose the Sultan Saladin as the next most influential player in the story of the Crusades because, in 1169, the Muslim, Saladin, made himself sultan of Egypt. In 1187 Jerusalem was in Saladin's control. After that three European rulers (English King Richard I/ Richard the Lionhearted, German emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and the French king Philip II Augustus) agreed to lead the Third Crusades. When they arrived in the East in 1189, they encountered problems, The English and French came by sea and captured the coastal cities, but were unable to move inland, and Frederick drowned in a local river. Richard made a settlement with Saladin in which Christians were allowed to take pilgrimages to Jerusalem.
- I chose the German teenager, Nicholas Of Cologne, to represent the end of the Crusades because in 1212, he told the other youth that God had inspired him to lead a Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. Thousands of young people joined Nicholas and went to the Rhine and across the Alps to Italy, where the pope told them to go home. Most of them did so. Around this time 20,000 French children were heading to the Holy Land by ship. There were seven ships that they took, five ships were sold into slavery and the other two went down in a storm. There were two more after that, they were both unsuccessful.
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