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First Crusade (1096)
 Successful – Christians take Jerusalem
 (When all that massacre happened)
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Second Crusade (1096)
 Unsuccessful – helped unite the Muslims
 Had nothing to do with Jerusalem…
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Saladin forced Christianity to submit
Jerusalem to him
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Showed “mercy” to the Christians (or at least
treated them a lot better than the Christians treated the
Muslims)
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Jerusalem now in control of the Muslims led by
Saladin ….
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Led by 3 Great Kings of Europe
 King Louis XVI of France
 Frederick Barbarossa of The Holy Roman Empire
 Richard The Lionheart of England
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Barbarossa falls of his horse and drowns
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Richard takes the fight to Saladin, massacring
women and children on the walls
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Sound familiar?
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While Richard is off on
Crusade…
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SOMEONE is stealing
from the Rich and giving
to the poor…
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Ends in a stalemate…
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Saladin is unable to completely drive out the
Christians from Syria 
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Richard is unable to take Jerusalem from the
Muslims 
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R.C. CRUSADERS: Lets go take back
Jerusalem from the Muslims!!
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So they go on their way….
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R.C. CRUSADERS: You know what? This is too
damn hard….lets go to Byzantium and sack
Constantinople instead…
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So the Crusaders instead of attacking the Muslims
just attack the Eastern Orthodox Christians and take
their city of Constantinople…
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FINAL BLOW between the Eastern Orthodox
Church & the Roman Catholic Church
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Leads to the decline of the Byzantine Empire…
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Muslims split..
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Christians ally with the Muslims to fight the
Muslims in Egypt
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Christians lose.
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An alliance with the infidels is now okay? What
happened to killing them all? :S
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Diplomatic maneuvering somehow leads to
the Crusaders gaining control of Jerusalem…
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Muslims took back Jerusalem again…
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The Pope called for a Crusade again…
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This time the people had stopped caring
about Jerusalem, its significance had been
lost..
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A small crusader army goes and gets
destroyed…
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Christians just gave up during the crusade
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Crusading spirit now entirely dead…
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The last of the Crusades in the Middle East
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1st Crusade: Christian Victory
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2nd Crusade: Muslim Victory (Jerusalem still Christian)
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Saladin takes Jerusalem
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3rd Crusade: Muslim Victory (Jerusalem still Muslim)
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4th Crusade: Roman Catholics sack Constantinople and def. the Eastern Orthodox
Christians
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5th Crusade: Ally with a group of Muslims and lose to the other Muslims
(Jerusalem still Muslim)
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6th Crusade: Christian victory
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Muslims take Jerusalem again…
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7th Crusade: Muslim Victory
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8th & 9th Crusade: Muslim Victory – Crusaders quit
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Cannibalism, brutal senseless massacre of
innocent people…what about that code of
Chivalry?
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Unprovoked attack on other Christians
sacking their great city…is that gods will?
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Ally with Muslims to attack
Jerusalem…thought they were infidels?
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The Italian cities prospered from the transport of Crusaders and
replaced Byzantines and Muslims as merchant-traders in the
Mediterranean.
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Trade passed through Italian hands to Western Europe at a
handsome profit. This commercial power became the economic
base of the Italian Renaissance
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Settlement of the Middle East, major trade center
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Some Scholars: Crusades helped bring Western Europe in contact
with Eastern, Greek and Muslim medicine, thinkers, science that
helped pull Western Europe out of the dark ages.