The Crusades: Major events.
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- How the Crusades started
- Sounds beneficial, it should secure the protection of the holy sites. (2)
- As pope, I declare that the idea of a crusade is to be initiated at once! (1)
- Then so be it! I shall go and inform the others at once! (3)
- Seige of Nicaea
- We stand victorious! (1)
- And wounded! Some help here, please?! (2)
- I can't believe it...! The Muslims hit two birds with one stone..They took Edessa and seized Damascus! (1)
- The fall of Edessa
- It appears so.. (2)
- Cant..breathe...! (3)
- I, King Richard I, agree to this treaty. (1)
- Dating way back to the mere motive of a sole crusade- it started exactly November 1095, and the pope was the sole individual which inaugurated this idea. However, he could not solely initiate this idea. Because of that, the Pope called on Christians to succor the Byzantines to successfully recapture the holy sites. At that, the idea was called a crusade, and it was now set to stone.
- Peace treaty
- I, Salah al-Din, agree to this treaty. (2)
- Peace, at last..! Thank the heavens..! (3)
- The Siege of Nicaea was the first major battle of the First Crusade. Having lost Nicaea to the Seljuks, the Byzantine forces allied with the Princes’ Crusade. They set out from Constantinople to retake Nicaea, a rather stable city just on the eastern shore of Lake Canius. After they conquered Nicaea and Antioch, they went to conquer Jerusalem.
- The capture of Jerusalem
- ...... (3)
- I will. Uhh, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Muslims confounded us once more. (2)
- This sucks..! (1)
- Louis VII and Conrad III arrived in Constantinople in 1147. The crusaders then attacked Damascus; a Muslim city that had been allied to the Christians until the attack. At the arrival of Nur al-Din (Nureddin) and his forces, the crusaders forcefully surrendered their jurisdiction, and the Muslims recuperated Edessa, edging the Crusader's downfall.
- Children's Crusade
- Tell me about it.. (2)
- Muslims and Christians opted to reach an agreement to exchange prisoners which royally backfired. As an aftermath, King Richard I order the death of 2,700 Muslims, In September of 1192, Richard and Salah al-Din reached the closure of signed a treaty.
- The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187.
- How do I say this..(1)
- In 1212, young peasants from France and Germany were collected into a children's crusade to also reclaim Jerusalem and the Holy sites. However, not all children that were collected participated.
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