Crusades
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- Cause of the Crusades
- Thorns of Hattin Battle
- Saladin and his army
- Raynald and the crusaders
- Fall of Jerusalem
- During November 1095, in southern France, The pope called western Christians to help the byzantines retake the holy land from the Muslims.
- The Battle of Arsuf
- July, 1187, Raynald of Châtillon attacked a Muslim caravan, this made Saladin get mad. Saladin told Raynald to meet at the horns of Hattin. The crusaders were then surrounded by Saladin’s army. And Saladin ended up killing Raynald with his own hands.
- The Third Crusade
- In June, 1098, The combined force resumed their march and captured the Syrian city of Antioch, and after many struggles and failed attempts, the crusaders began a march to Jerusalem. A year later the Christian’s forced Jerusalem’s government to surrender. With the crusaders invasion of Jerusalem, many people were slaughtered.
- The Albigensian Crusade
- In September 1191, Richard I of England attempted to draw out Saladin's army by attacking the Hospitallers, which led to a general charge that overwhelmed Saladin's army and killed 700 Crusaders and thousands of Muslims.
- In May 1453, Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottaman Empire surrounded Constantinople’s land and launched a canon into its walls. With Constantinople’s defense now gone, the ottoman expanded into eastern Europe.
- Within 1209-1229, Pope Innocent III declared a crusade against the Cathari of southern France, pushing the northern and southern nobility of France against each other and resulting in the king of France creating a rule which had taken away the freedom of the southern rulers and ruined Provence's culture.
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