Why did the First Crusade erupt? The First Crusade was a monumental event of the 11th century‚ where thousands of ordinary people took up the cross to make the extremely long and perilous journey to Jerusalem to fight the ‘other’; the Muslim threat. Inspired by extreme devotion to God and His church‚ people made this decision based on a single speech. Jonathan Philips argues that Pope Urban II’s speech in 1095 had managed to draw together a number of key concerns and trends‚ synthesising them
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story start? The call to fight started in November 27‚ 1095 during the Council of Clermont under Pope Urban II. Urban address the Council and sent his priests out to give sermons to motivate the people. This was in response to the Eastern Emperor Alexios’ request for help. Urban’s call was heard throughout the land that any man who went and fought to liberate the Holy Land would be forgiven of all their past sins‚ and those who could not fight gave money to the campaign would receive the same kind
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Christianity created the Medieval Crusades as an answer to the Muslims taken over the Holy Land and suppressing the Jews. As I learn more about the Medieval Crusades‚ I see a similarity in al-Qaeda‚ who claims to be fighting for Allah and spreading the word of Islam. Neither religion is correct and I do not believe that the two are true believers of Christianity or Islam. Moreover‚ the Medieval Crusades did not achieve their goal to gain the Holy Land while
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In the early eleventh century‚ Turks also known as nomadic Muslims moved from Central Asia. The Turks slowly started taking over west then‚ started taking over the south starting the crusades. Acrobatiq (2014).Eventfully the Turks moved into the Holy Land and Jerusalem. The Greek Emperor Alexius didn’t like the idea of the Turks taking over‚ so he went and discussed it with Pope Urban II. The Pope wanted to form a army to fight against the Muslims and take back the holy land. This is when the armies
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idea of the First Crusade was good against evil‚ in which the crusaders were on the good side and the Muslims and Jews on the evil side; after all they were the one who killed Jesus. The two main leaders that called for the First Crusade were Alexius I‚ emperor of the Byzantine Empire‚ and Pope Urban II. The First Crusade was an evil act against Muslims and Jews. Greed and lack of knowledge mostly caused the First Crusade. The riches of the East lured many‚ mostly because younger sons in families
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reading a version of the speech given by Urban II at Clermont in 1095‚ I wondered why a pope would want to start a war. So I did some research found a few reliable sources on the internet about the same speech and including my textbook. My objective in this paper is to find out why would any Christian be willing to go to war for a piece of property and or did the pope have an ulterior motive? As it turns out‚ that piece of property I was wondering about is actually the holy land called Jerusalem (the
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would be completely Christian. Urban wished to expand the Church’s sphere of influence to those previously Christian parts of Europe and Northern Africa which had been overrun by the Islamic world.. In March of 1095‚ the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus appealed to the papacy for military aid to help against increasingly hostile neighbours. In 1095 the Seljuk Turks had come within one hundred miles of Byzantium or Constantinople‚ and they were thought to be threatening Eastern Christians. It
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Explain why Pope Urban II called for a Crusade in Clermont 1095. One reason‚ or trigger for Pope Urban calling the crusade would have been Alexius’ request for his help. Alexius asked for Pope Urban’s aid in helping him to fight the Turks; this is because they were closing in and starting to invade Constantinople‚ which was the main frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Emperor Alexius felt threatened by the Turks‚ and knew that Pope Urban in him being the head of the Church (the
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The crusades were an astonishing and remarkable phenomenon which employed an authoritative influence on European growth and expansion over a period of several Centuries. The Study of crusades has extended swiftly in the last 50 years‚ encompassing the study of military excursions from Middle East to the Western Europe between 1095 and 1291. The First Crusade was acknowledged its shape and name late. To the contemporaries‚ the occasion was a voyage and the men who participated in it were called the
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Towards the end of the 11th century‚ the ongoing animosity between the religions of Christianity and Islam would reach its breaking point. The destruction of the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulcher by Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim‚ the capture of the city of Jerusalem by the Muslims and the ongoing tensions between the Christian Byzantine Empire and its Muslim neighbors‚ would prompt Pope Urban II to call for European Christians to take up arms and passionately state “whoever shall set forth to liberate
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