Download By: Shalini Ratnayake Mater Christi College Year 8

By: Shalini Ratnayake
Mater Christi College
Year 8
• Introduction
• Introduction - continued
• Crusades
• Crusades Continued
• Pictures
• The End!
The year was 1095 CE; William the defeater had united
England under one crown 30 years earlier. The French
had been dividing properties amongst their sons for
generations, causing bloodshed between brothers over
small pieces of real estate. In reaction, Pope Urban II
expanded "The Truce of God", which banned fighting
from Sunday to Wednesday, and banned fighting
involving priests, monks, women, labourers and
merchants on any day of the week. Italy was a
collection of city-states, constantly being overrun by
invading crowds, the latest of which were the Normans,
who had just started to become "civilized" cultured).
There was also the Byzantine Kingdom, ruling from
Constantinople, whose emperor at this time was Alexius
Comnenus. To his East, the Turks were rapidly intruding
on his territory, and had begun attacking pilgrims on their
way to - and in - Jerusalem, causing him great distress.
He wrote to his friend Robert, the Count of Flanders, in
1093, telling him about supposed violence committed by
the Turks on the Christian pilgrims, an investor had some
how came across this letter and thought of this as a
perfect way to solve some of his local problems. He
personally certified a Holy Crusade to reclaim the Holy
Lands from the barbarian Turks. Therefore, the First
Crusade was launched in 1096 CE. It all began from hen
and the Muslims were involved too, so that’s when they
thought let the games begin.
The Crusades were Holy wars fought by Europeans believing
they were protecting the Christian religion. The Europeans were
having the wars with the Muslim religion. Many crusades were
fought between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, but only
the first crusade really succeeded in its aims.
The crusades began, when Christian Europe launched a series
of wars against the Muslims in an attempt to free the Holy Land.
These Holy wars were called Crusades, by the Europeans.
The Catholic Church taught that Christianity was the only true
religion. It was aimed to convert those with other religion to
convert to Christianity as in the Middle Ages they believed that
Christianity was the only religion, which was truly in belief.
On the other hand the Muslim religion thought that there
was only one god called Allah.
The first crusade was held in 1096, the second was held in
1147, the third was held on 1204, the fourth was held on
1204 and the children’s crusade was held on 1212. These
above dates were some on the most important dates in
which the crusades took in place. In the eleventh century
the relationship began to change.
The end result of the Crusades, were a failure. After two
centuries of warfare, Jerusalem remained in Muslims hands.
For most of this time small sections of the Holy Land may
have been part of a crusader kingdom, but none of these
survived beyond the thirteenth century. Although the
Christian religion crusades had a failure, the Muslims got the
victory by taking part in the crusades.