Arab to Turkish control over Jerusalem. This change had an

effect on the people that were allowed to live there, and

the beliefs that they could have. Since the city was

important to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, this change

affected very many people. When the change in power

occurred, Jews and Christians were no longer allowed to live

in Jerusalem. Pope Urban II gave a speech to encourage

to volunteer to fight to regain Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is integral to the history of Judaism. David

conquered the city from the Jebusites in the 11th century

BC, and made it the political capital of the Jewish state.

Solomon, his son, made it the religious capital by building

the Temple there in the 10th century BC. "The Temple was the

center of religious activity for all Jews until Solomon's

death, when the kingdom split into Judah and Israel." (Pernoud

114) The Jews in Judah continued with the Temple

as their religious center, while the Jews in Israel to the

north attempted to build new religious centers that could

never quite replace Jerusalem's Temple. The Temple was

destroyed in 586 BC by Nebuchadnezzar, the B

stand with other prophets of God, including Jesus and Moses,

all of the Christian holy sites in the city are places where

Christianity arrived in Jerusalem along with Christ,

a cosmopolitan nature. After Herod's death, the Jews

their lives would not be the same. They could not have the

Urban said, but it seems he began with a general denouncement of

city. "They found the rock where Muhammad is said to have

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