Crusades
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- Crusade 1
- Crusade 2
- Crusade 3
- (1095-1099): The First Crusade was the most successful. Armies from Europe drove out the Turks and took control of Jerusalem. Pope Urban 2nd started the first crusade
- Crusade 4
- (1147-1149): In 1146 the city of Edessa was conquered by the Turks. The entire population was killed or sold into slavery. Then a second Crusade was launched, but was unsuccessful.
- Crusade 5
- (1187-1192): In 1187 Saladin, the sultan of Egypt, recaptured the city of Jerusalem from the Christians. A third Crusade was launched led by Emperor Barbarossa of Germany, King Philip Augustus of France, and King Richard the Lionheart of England. Richard the Lionheart fought Saladin for several years.
- Crusade 6
- (1202-1204): The Fourth Crusade was formed by Pope Innocent III with the hope of taking back the Holy Land. However, the Crusaders got sidetracked and greedy and ended up conquering and plundering Constantinople instead.
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