Crusades

What are the Crusades?

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The crusades were in a battle over a place called Palestine which was called the Holy land. The crusades were fighting the Muslims, the Muslims weren't just going  hand ver the Holy land so the huge battle was on crusades vs Muslims. This was  a bloody war with tons of people dying each day. For this battle more than 5 crusades were needed.

1st crusade:
In 1096 around 5,000 peasants blamed Jew's for Jesus Death so they became a crusade and left for the Holy land. They headed towards Germany to kill the Jews. before the crusade could get to the Holy land Turkish troops killed most of them because peasants weren't trained and weren't well equipped with armor.the knights and nobles were able to reach the Holy land in 1099 and with a month of fighting the crusade won and took over Jerusalem and made 4 small kingdoms. In these kingdoms the lord and vassal system was made again. In 50 years and Muslims came back taking over parts of land back making Europe send out more crusades

2nd crusade:
Both French and German king went to take the land back from the Muslims. This whole crusade was a failure because of poor planing and heavy losses on the way there to the Holy land. Everyone was ashamed of the huge loss to the Muslims.

3rd crusade:
The 3rd crusade launched to Jerusalem in 1147 when the Muslims took over the Holy land again. England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire went once more to take over the Holy land. Then again problems happened the German king died! Making the French king leave, leaving King Richard. The crusades opponent was Saladin, The leader of the Muslim army. Saladin was a great leader enough to make the crusades respect him. Months of war happened, but when King Richard came back he still didn't win.

4th crusade:
French knights were sent to the Holy land but did not have the money to pay for the voyage to the Holy land so people of Venice said to conquer Zara then they could sail to the Holy land. After they attacked Zara they attacked Constantinople which led to being sacked by the Christians because they were threatened by the Muslims  

Other Crusades:
many other crusades came but they all failed. In 1291 the Muslims took back all of the Holy land

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