crusades

Title: crusades
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1986 | Pages: 8.5 (approximately 235 words/page)

crusades

Crusades By: john muhhamed In the year of our lord 1095, Pope Urban II started what we know as the Holy Wars or the Crusades. Over the period from 1095-1464, a series of military expeditions were fought to take back the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Seldjuk Turks. There were eight crusades, which were spurred for many different reasons by many different people that left a lasting effect to the world. These years of bloodshed were led …showed first 75 words of 1986 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1986 total…was spurred by greed and power ended up with no Holy Land and an ongoing rivalry towards the Muslims. Despite the harsh feelings between both cultures, they both gained economically due to the improvement of trade between the West and the East. Many rulers came along and fought for their own causes, but none were successful. These Holy Wars aided in the shaping of European History and left a lasting effect on the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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