Claudette+Golpe

I think the crusades was mainly caused by greed. Because of greed, they wanted more land and had the pride to gain it which made Muslims invade the Christians and kill a lot of them. While the Muslims were killing Christians, they destroyed a lot of important places like the hill of crucifixion and the tomb where of Christ's burial.

2. Background--Describe who, what when and where.

 * There were a total of nine crusades.
 * Pope Urban II was mostly known to be the person who started the crusades.
 * Fought at Acre, the Holy Land, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Clermont, and other places or countries.
 * King Richard of England, Emperor Frederick of Germany, Byzantine Emperor Alexius, Kerbogha, Zahir al-Din Atabek, Kilij Arslan, Sigurd I of Norway, Bernard of Clairvaux, King Louis VII, King Conrad III, Nur ad-Din, Pope Gregory VIII, Henry VI, and many other soldiers, kings, and emperors were involved in the crusades.
 * The battles lasted from 1095 to 1272 which is about 177 years.
 * The crusades were fought against the Muslims, Christians, and Jews to gain the Holy Land (Jerusalem).


 * Muslims invaded the Christians and killed a lot of them. They even destroyed the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem which reminded them about the hill of crucifixion and the tomb of Christ's burial. The Pope declared, “...A grave report has come has come from the lands of Jerusalem and from the city of Constantinople that a people from the kingdom of the Persians, a foreign race, a race absolutely alien to God…has invaded the land of those Christians [and] has reduced the people with sword, rapine and fire…"
 * The crusades also started because kings and emperors wanted more land and had the pride that they could gain it.
 * They wanted to control Jerusalem and fought to gain it because they said the City of Jerusalem had a Holy significance.

They wanted to control Jerusalem and fought to gain it because they said the City of Jerusalem had a Holy significance. I think this is an important factor because it kind of explains my first and second factor. It's is also the most common factor I found while researching that caused the crusades.

==5.Impacts--Explain how one religous group and an individual within that group were impacted by The Crusades. ==

One individual that was impacted by the crusades was King Richard I of England, or Richard the Lionheart. He gained more power because he gained more land. He also became a better at finding new, and maybe valuable things he could trade with other people. He also learned new technologies and how to use them like the compass or and astrolabe. He also got new ideas for building better boats and ships.

The crusades could have been avoided if people weren't so greedy and wanted to gain more land for power. It would have also been avoided if people didn't think Jerusalem had a Holy significance or if people didn't have the pride to gain more land. More crusades would have been avoided, too, if people have been more fair and didn't force children to fight or poor people to fight either.

7. Works Cited--List your sources in MLA format.

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Wikipedia contributors. "Richard I of England." //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2 Mar. 2010. Web. 2 Mar. 2010//
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Wikipedia contributors. "Pope Urban II." //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia//. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 1 Mar. 2010. Web. 2 Mar. 2010.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Dafoe, Stephen. "King Richard-The Lionheart." Templar History. Accessed March 2, 2010. []
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Snell, Melissa. "Peter the Hermit - Leader of the Crusade of the Poor People." About.com. Medieval History Guide. Accessed March 2, 2010. []