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The Crusades.
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- 1What were the Crusades?The Crusades were wars, fought under the banner of Christ, to recover or
defend Christian territory in Jersulman - 2How did the Crusades Happened?The Christians had always traveled to Jerusalem. After the forces of Islam captured Jerusalem in 638, Christians were still able to visit the city. But by the eleventh century, the situation had changed. Just as the number of pilgrims to Jerusalem reached a new peak, the Seljuk Turks took over control of Jerusalem and stopped all pilgrimages.
The popes responded by calling on the forces of Western Europe to win back Jerusalem from Islam. The series of wars that resulted came to be termed the Crusades - 3What was the Result of the Crusades?Tens of thousands of Muslims, Jews and Christians were killed.
One of the worst incidents occurred during the Fourth Crusade when the out of control Crusaders attacked the richest Christian city in the world.
It caused great and lasting damage to relations between Eastern and Western Christians. - 4How did the Crusades original purpose fail?• They made no permanent conquests of the Holy Land
• They did not prevent the spread of Islam
• They hardened the division between Christians in the West and the East
• They encouraged misunderstanding and intolerance among Muslims and Christians and Jews - 5When the major Crusades take place?1095 and 1291
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- Year 10 RE (The Middle Ages) Flashcards on The Crusades., created by Kaitlyn Selak on 31/10/2016.
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