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The Crusaders
By Giordano
• In the middle ages there were people from the
Catholic church trying to get possession of
Jerusalem. They were called the Crusaders.
• Muslims occupied Jerusalem and had certain
rules for people to follow if they lived there.
• In total there were nine crusades, called Holy
Wars, here is a graph showing the nine
crusades...
In the first crusade, in 1095, they were able to get to Jerusalem
but not over take it. the second crusade was more successful.
• “The Third Crusade - King Richard and Saladin
The knightly adventures and chivalrous
exploits which mark the career of Richard in
the Holy Land read like a romance. Nor was
the chief of the Mohammedans, the
renowned Saladin, lacking in any of those
knightly virtues with which the writers of the
time invested the character of the English
hero.”
• When Richard was sick with a fever and didn’t
have special foods, Saladin, sent him a gift of
the best fruits. The sultan gave a fine Arabian
horse to his rival, Richard the Lion-heart, who
lost his horse in the battle.
• The Fourth Crusade - The Sack of
Constantinople in 1204
• “The crusaders, now better styled the
invaders, took Constantinople by storm. No
"infidels" could have treated in worse fashion
this home of ancient civilization. They burned
down a great part of it; they slaughtered the
inhabitants; they wantonly destroyed
monuments, statues, paintings, and
manuscripts - the accumulation of a thousand
years.”
• In this fourth crusade the leaders aimed at
Constantinople because if they took control of
it they would be powerful and rich.
• So the crusades turned from a fight for
religion to a fight for wealth and power and a
bit of religion.
Children's Crusades
• There where 3 children’s crusades: the French, the
German and the Stephen of Cloyes. Hundreds of
thousands of children were either killed, went missing
or became slaves.
• At the time of 1212 approximately 30,000 French
children went thru towns singing “Lord God, exalt
Christianity. Lord God, restore to us the true cross.”
• “The French children, set out from the place of
rendezvous for Marseilles. Those that sailed from that
port were betrayed, and sold as slaves in Alexandria
and other Mohammedan slave markets.”
• As you can tell the crusades where bad in my
opinion. They killed lots of people including
Muslims, Jews and Christians. Also, greed
started to get the better of them. I think that
it was a bad thing for them to do because it
was not necessary at all!
• Switched on School House DVD Rom: History
& Geography 600. Section: “Life in the Middle
Ages”
• Web: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/thecrusades.htm Bibliography: See A General
History for Colleges and High Schools Author:
P. V. N. Myers