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1. Introduction--Describe a general cause or causes of the conflict.
I think religion was the general cause of The Crusades. The whole reason the Christians wanted the Holy Land was because of religious needs, like making pilgramages, and making shrines to honor God. It was penitential to the Bible. = =

2. Background--Describe who, what when and where.
In Clermont,France in 1,095 A.D. Pope Urban II gave his famous speech with Alexius Comnenus,the Byzantine emperor, about the idea of The Crusades. view this link to see part of the speech (Pope Urban II's famous speech)

3. Causal Factors--Describe three factors that led to The Crusades.
1. The Christians wanted the Holy Land. 2. The Seljuk Turks took over the Holy Land and prevented pilgrimages. 3. To stop the Muslim invasion. 4. To heal the schism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

4. Most Important Factor--Explain how one factor was more important than the others.
The most important factor was: The Seljuk Turks took over the Holy Land and prevented pilgramages. People were upset because the Holy Land meant alot to them. The Turks put restrictions on the Christians that lived nearby.

5. Impacts--Explain how one religous group and an individual within that group were impacted by The Crusades.
It influenced trade embargos on the Christians. The Christians started to respect the Muslims more. It brought an end to feudalism. Peter was a big part of the People's Crusade, and almost all of his men died retreating, then he waited for the Crusaders in Constantinople. He had a subordinate part in the First Crusade. Then he sailed west from Latakia,Syria, and was never to be seen again. "According to Anna Comnena, he had attempted to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before 1096, but was prevented by the Seljuk Turks from reaching his goal and was tortured.[1] Sources differ as to whether he was present at Pope Urban II's famous Council of Clermont in 1095; but it is certain that he was one of the preachers of the crusade in France afterward, and his own experience may have helped to give fire to the Crusading cause. He soon leapt into fame as an emotional revivalist; and the vast majority of sources and historians agree that thousands of peasants eagerly took the cross at his bidding. However, Jonathan Riley-Smith has proposed that the People's Crusade also included well armed soldiers and nobles. This part of the crusade was also the crusade of the "paupers", a term which in the Middle Ages indicated a status as impoverished or mendicant wards of the Church. Peter organized and guided the paupers as a spiritually purified and holy group of pilgrims who would be protected by the Heavenly Host." [] ==

6. Conclusion--Explain how The Crusades could have been avoided.
The Crusades could have been avoided if they understood each other. If they would have just sat down and decided that everybody should be allowed in Jerusalem, there wouldn't be such a conflict, but that stuff didn't happen back then. So would have been hard to aviod.

7. Works Cited--List your sources in MLA format.
Knox,Skip."The Christian Crusades". Global Ministries.United Methodist Church.3/1/2010.[]
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