The Crusades

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  • 1095

    The Arabs

    Around 1095, a new group of Arabs took control of Jerusalem.
    They closed the city to Jewish and Christian pilgrims.
  • 1095

    Pope Urban II Responds

    Pope Urban II read the letter in Nov. 1095 asking for help and called for a “holy war” or CRUSADE. He said those who fought and died in the Crusades would be promised a spot in Heaven with all sins forgiven. And about 30,000 men took up his offer and left western Europe to fight in Jerusalem.
  • Period: 1096 to 1099

    First Crusade

    Unprepared troops
    No strategy
    Captured Jerusalem
    Carved in up into 4 Crusader states.
  • Period: 1147 to 1149

    Second Crusade

    Muslim leader Saladin takes control of Jerusalem.
    Muslim Turks re-conquer the city.
    Saladin is described to be honest and brave.
  • Period: 1189 to 1192

    Third Crusade

    Richard the Lion Hearted = English King and two other leaders fail to recapture Jerusalem.
    He and Saladin respected each other.
  • Period: 1202 to 1204

    Fourth Crusade

    Crusades attack Constantinople instead.
    Stole statues, money, paintings and jewelry
    Burned libraries, destroyed churches.
    they needed money to defend Constantinople from the same fate as Jerusalem and to rescue Jerusalem from Muslims
  • 1212

    Children’s Crusade

    Thousands of French and German children try to reach Jerusalem
    Believed God would help them because they were children
    Many died of hunger, some froze to death.
    They reached the Mediterranean sea, expected they waters to part for them…. They didn’t
    Forced to return home .