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media type="youtube" key="VpHMPzk6uI4" height="390" width="480" The Crusades: **What they were**;; A series of Holy Wars. They started in 1095. **Causes of the Crusades**;; A war between Christians and Moslems **Time-line of Crusades**;; First Crusade- 1096 to 1099 Second Crusade- 1144 to 1155 Third Crusade- 1187 to 1192 Forth Crusade- 1202 to 1204 Children's Crusades- 1212 Fifth Crusade- 1217 to 1221 Sixth Crusade- 1228 to 1229 Seventh Crusade- 1248 to 1254 Eighth Crusade- 1270 Ninth Crusade- 1271 to 1272 **Weapons of Crusade **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">;; <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">Weapons-
 * Brianna and Alyssa's crusade project!! :)**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Knight's Weapons**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Polearms
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Battle Axes
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Maces
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Billhook
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Caltrops
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Flail
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Halberd
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Long Bow
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Bows
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Pike
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Pole Axes
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quarterstaff
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Spears
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Warhammers
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Batons
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Scimitar


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Broadsword
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Falchionsword
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Greatsword
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Lance (Shield) [[image:Crusades2.jpg]]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Training Weapons **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Jerusalem Importance** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">;;
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quintain
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Pell Training
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Pell Mell

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Major Events** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">;; <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Children's Crusade. Led by French peasant boy, Stephen of Cloyes. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Led by King Andrew II, Duke Leopold VI, and John of Brienne <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Led by Frederick II <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Led by Louis IX of France <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Led by Louis IX <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">9. Led by Prince Edward, later by Edward I Timeline
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Commemorated hill of crucifixions
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Christ's Burial
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Visited by Pilgrams
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Freeing Holy Lands led by Count Raymond IV
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Prepared to attack Damascus led by Conrad III and King Louis VII
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Led by Richard the Lionheart of England Philip II and Frederick I. Richard made a truce with Saladin
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Led by Fulk or Neul. French/Flemish advanced on Constantinople.

Major people
 * 1) Alexius I Comneus - emperor during the years of 1081 and served under the leadership of romous IV Diogenes in various engagements.
 * 2) Pope Urban II -born of knightly rank, Roman catholic pope, 1088-99
 * 3) Robert De Guiscard - duke of Apulia and Calabria. founder of the Norman State of the two Sicilies.
 * 4) Saladin - leader of the muslim forces, made a truce with richard of the lion head,and recaptured jerusalem for the muslims
 * 5) Bernar﻿d of Clairvaux - preached against the injustices done to the jews.

Specific Crusades
 * Siege of Acre- Saladins army invaded and took over acre.
 * Battle of Adrianople- took place on 9 August AD 378, and was the beginning of the end for the roman empire.
 * Battle of Ager Sanguinis- on 28 June 1119 at sarmada muslims defeted the principality of Antiochia.

Important sites
 * Jerusalem- Holy city where Jesus preached. A place of pilgramage for the Christians.
 * Constantinople- by 1097 nearly 10,000 people gathered here ready for the journy to the holy land.
 * Crusader Castle- secular builders of the middle ages built these castles in the years of 1000 to 1400.
 * Bethlehem- in 1099,Bethlehem was captured by crusaders, who fortified it and built a new monastery and coister on the north side of the Church of Navtity.

Maps of the crusades pathes.
 * The crusades were fought **** in the middle eastern part of the world! **



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