No one word can successfully describe the Crusades. However, it was one of the most significant events in the history of human times. It was over 200 years of blood, death and turmoil. Thousands upon thousands of people, both civilians and military, were mercilessly slaughtered .
The Third Crusade was spurred mainly by the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187. Pope Gregory VIII then preached for yet another crusade. This crusade was led by Richard I the Lion Hearted
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