Crusades

“The Holy Wars”

 What Were The Crusades?
• The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars.
• The Crusades were between Christians
and Muslims.
• There were nine Crusades
• The first Crusades were known as the
Principle Crusades.
• The last four were known as the Minor
Crusades.
 The First Crusade…
• The First Crusade started in 1096 and it ended
in 1099.
• It happened when Pope Claremont was Pope.
• The territory in which this war was fought over
was Jerusalem.
• Before the war Christian people were allowed
into the holy land even though it was inhabited
by Islam’s.
• The Turks invaded the holy land and killed about
3,000 Christians.
• The Turks were Muslim.
• The Christians that weren’t killed were kept as
prisoners and were treated awfuly.
• Because of this, Christian’s were forced to go in
battle.
• Peter Hermit was a preacher of the clan of Pope
Claremont saying that “God wills it” to take
Jerusalem.
• Peter lead a failed attempt to take Jerusalem.
• Later; Franks took over the land and the
Christians won.
 Second Crusade…
• The Second Crusade started in 1147 and ended
in 1149.
• The cause was of the Crusade was the Fall and
Massacre at Edessa. (Explain)
• This was being fought for Jerusalem.
• St. Bernard preached to people to get people to It
ended up with no one winning.
• The Christians just gave up.
• No one won, No won lost.
 The Third Crusade…
• The Third Crusade started in 1189 and ended in 1192.
• The man Saladin took over Jerusalem and started the
Third Crusade.
• The king of the Christians raised money for the
Crusade so they could have money to spend on military
items.
• Eventually The Christians took back the holy land in
1191.
• The King and Saladin made a truce to end the war. (Let
Christians into Jerusalem without pay).
 The Fourth Crusade…
• The Fourth Crusade started in 1202 and ended
in 1261.
• The place that was of interest was
Constantinople during this war.
• Christians took Constantinople and they
massacred it.
• Christians took Constantinople and they only
kept it for about sixty years.
• Turks took Constantinople after the Crusade.
 Fifth Crusade…
• Fifth Crusade is known as the “Childrens
Crusade”
• It started in 1212 and ended in 1212.
• A boy about twelve was going to lead a Crusade
to the holy land.
• 30,000 French children were in a Crusade, it
lasted until they were hungry.
• German boy did the same thing and led the
people to the boats. Some were never found.
• This marked the decline of the Crusades.
 The Minor Crusades…
• The Minor Crusades lasted from 1217 to 1272
• The Minor Crusades were the “Minor
Crusades” because many people weren’t as
religiously into the wars.
• Fifth resulted in nothing.
• Eight didn’t accomplish anything
• The final war had a treaty that said that the
Christian was the favorite in the Last Crusade.
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