The Crusades were wars fought in the middle ages between the Muslims and the Christians. You are probably wondering what they fought over. Well ill tell you, they fought over the Holy Land where Jesus Christ was born, lived and died. The Holy Land was a town called Jerusalem. The first Crusade was in AD 1096. The Crusades continued from the 11th to 14th century. In 1095 Pope the second went to Clermont in South- cental France to give a speech.
There was as many as 10,000 people gathered there to hear the Pope's speech(There was so many people because the Pope rarely left Italy and made speeches). They knew it would be a historic event in history. The Pope gave a masterful speech He mentioned that the Holy land had been captured. He refered to the Seljuk Turks as "new accursed race of Persians". This had started many wars to get the Holy Land of Jerusalem back from the Seljuk Turks.
Why did the muslims want the holy land? Also, that a lot of people listening to his speech. I wonder how they heard him.
ReplyDeleteI think that is really cool! I did not even know that the pope was even that popular to have 10,000 people come to hear his speech. I wonder how they could all hear him?
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