eastern Mediterranean seemed assured for many years to come, but

little did the people know what was ahead . This, thus embark us on a

journey back into the First Crusade. In this paper I will be

discussing the events that lead up to the first in a long line of

crusades. I will also be mentioning the lives of some of the

crusaders through letters that they wrote. The crusades were a time

of confusion for most people, yet today we look back at them as a

The Crusades were Christian military expeditions undertaken

between the 11th and the 14th century to recapture the Holy Land from

the Muslims. The word crusade, which is derived from the Latin crux

("cross") , is a reference to the biblical injunction that Christians

carry their cross . Crusaders wore a red cloth cross sewn on their

tunics to indicate that they had assumed the cross and were soldiers

The causes of the Crusades were many and complex, but

prevailing religious beliefs were clearly of major importance. The

Crusaders continued an older tradition of the pilgrimage to the Holy

Political considerations were also important. The Crusades

November 27 that he would hold a public session to make a great

eternal merit, and the offer of indulgences motivated thousands to

learned that in everything there is a secret meaning and lesson to be

anticipated a force as large as that which the Crusaders brought.

Crusades as a mean of establishing and extending trade routes .

and distant regions, suddenly fell upon us and attempted to capture

religious terms, they hardened Muslim attitudes toward Christians. At

crusade to capture Constantinople itself.

lords had answered Popes Urbans' appeal. That way everything could

of East and West, the nobility's hunger for land at a time of crop

Overall, How Pope Urban organized the Crusades was ingenious

Developed a knack for warfare. After all look at all that has happened

from the example here was written around the time of the siege of

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