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1096 BCE
The first crusade
Up to 150,000 people hurried to join. most were killed by the turks before ever reaching the holy land. -
1002
The Reconquista
The decline of spain began in 1002 with a civil war. -
1054
the great schism
an official break between the roman catholic church and eastern orthodox churches which lasts to present day -
1147
The second crusade
King Louis VII of France and the German emperor organized the second crusade. The second crusade failed. -
1189
The third crusade
the fall of jerusalem provoked the third crusade. Called the "crusade of the kings" -
1200
The Inquisition begins
Pope Gegory IX created the inquisition, a series of investigations designed to find and judge heritics. -
1202
the forth crusade
Embarassed the pope that launched it, never reached the holy land. Instead, they tried to fund their cause by looting and raiding christian cities along the route. -
1212
The final crusades
The so called childrens crusade attracted poor people of all kinds
most never made it past italy. -
1215
Magna Carta
a charter agreed to by King John of England and his rebellious barons, the document would come to be seen as the beginning of legal limits to the power of monarches and leaders. -
1337
beginning of the hundred years war
the kings of France and England begin a war fought off and on, would last until 1453 -
1347
The Beginning of the Black Death
Ten years after the start of the hundred year war, Europe was struck by a horrible epidemic, a diesease that spread quickly through the population. The epidemic was the bubonic plague, a deadly agony, with their bodys covered in buboes, or swellings. -
1381
The Peasent's Revolt
Peasants launched the Peasant's Revolt, killing lords and burning manors Although such revolts were crushed, feudalism never recovered.