Riley+wood

1. Introduction--Describe a general cause or causes of the conflict.
= = I think that the main cause of the crusades

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

 * The people involved in the crusades were the christians, muslems, jews, king richard, and many other important people.
 * The crusades were basicly fights between the christians, jews,and muslems although the jews basicly just got killed.
 * Most of the battles were in europe but mainly around jursalem.

3. Causal Factors--Describe three factors that led to The Crusades.

 * It being a very holy place to many religions may have caused the fight between the Muslems,Christians, and the jews.
 * The Christians,jews,and muslems all have differnt oppinians on god yet beleive in the same god so there differnces could have caused the fights between the jews, christians,and the muslems.
 * It is a very low posibility or not but mabe they (jews muslems and christians) just wanted respect for their countery and people.

4. Most Important Factor--Explain how one factor was more important than the others.

 * I think that the biggest and im portant factor was that jurusalem was a very holy and historical place for all three religions, and if i could pick a second factor or cause it wouled probobly be just differnt belifs about the same god.

= 5. Impacts--Explain how one religous group and an individual within that group were impacted by the Crusades =
 * I think that the jews were impacted the most by the crusades and one of the jews that were effected was Eleazer ben judah.

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6. Conclusion--Explain how The Crusades could have been avoided.
The crusades couled have been avoided by just acsepting the fact that there are other religions out there. Also if they just had jurusalem be no mans land that would be a great thing becouse then they would not have to worry about who owns the city and who does not own it then they could all be in peace and then anyone can come and go as they please. 7. Works Cited--List your sources in MLA format.