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1. Introduction--Describe a general cause or causes of the conflict.
God awful stuborness that every few people have myself included. If the muslims never thuoght that they **needed** to have to have the holy land they woudnt have attacked. If the christians didn't **need** have to empires then they could have let the muslims expand. Thirdly if the jews didn't **need** to have complete contol of the holy land te evey one would be free to come and go.

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

 * who:pope Urban II, king richard the lionheart, saladin, the christians, the muslims and the jews.
 * what:the pope started the wars, richard was the leader in the 3rd crusade, saladin was the muslim general.
 * when:pope starts wars 1096, 1189 richard marches to jerusalem, 1189 in the fight against richard
 * where:pope calls conference in Clermont, Richard fights in holy land, Salidin fights against Richard

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

 * 1) The holy land being just what it is called to the three major religons.
 * 2) Europe was in constant warfare and the crusades got rid of all the knights so the kings had no soldiors.
 * 3) Also the Jews were money lenders which was against the popes laws and the jews bible contridicted with the Qur'an.

**4. Most Important Factor--Explain how one factor was more important than the other.**
I belive that the jews doing things that both other religions thought were bad was the most impotent factor in the crusades. The chistians thought that money lending was against god. They also thought that th jews were responsibible for the death of Jesus. The muslim Qur'an says that Ishmael not Issac was almost sacificed which goes against jewish and christian bibles. So the muslims went and conquered the jews and saw a new threat the chistians and advanced on Constantinople. The christians were already making the jews lives miserable and the muslims gave them the perfect reason to get their wepeons and do some practicing on the way. Then whn they got to the holy land they killed muslims and jews alike when they got there.

5. Impacts--Explain how one religous group and an individual within that group were impacted by The Crusades.
The christians received new technology and learned that there are several other religions other than theirs and the jews. They also were unable to ever have complete dominion over Europe do to spanish muslims and resentment from the jews. King Richard was affected because he would always have the deaths of the 2700 muslims he killed on his concience. Another reason is his people were poor after the taxes and didnt like him very much. Thirdly he was kidnapped and beaten up before he got.

6. Conclusion--Explain how The Crusades could have been avoided.
I think that if the Muslims never conqured the holy land then the christians never would have retaleated. Also if the jews never trid to defend and welcomed the muslims then the muslims might not have gotten battle lust and fought all over the holy land. From the other hand if the jews weren't vastly outnumbered they could have had their own army and fought back against the muslims and cusaders. On the third hand the muslims didn't need to fight and could have just had a visit.

7. Works Cited--List your sources in MLA format.
Why do muslims and jews hate each other, rbc, 3/2/10, []