1. Let’s Take back the Holy Land!!!
The Crusades
Let’s Take back the Holy Land!!!

2. Why is this happening?
Crusades – series of conflicts between Christian and Muslim armies
Holy Land is occupied by Muslim forces (Seljuk Turks)
Byzantine (Christian) leader Alexius I asked all of Europe for help to reclaim the land
Byzantine Empire = Eastern Roman Empire

3. How do we get Christians to believe this?
“All who die…shall have immediate remission of sins.”
Pope Urban II
“It is the will of God, it is the will of God.”

4. The First Crusade Also called the “Peoples’ Crusade”
1099 – European Crusaders take Jerusalem
Extremely bloody
Set up smaller feudal states around Jerusalem
Surrounded by Muslim territory

5. The Second Crusade Muslims retake one of the Crusader states
Second Crusade formed but fails miserably
1187 – Saladin takes back Jerusalem
Basis of the film Kingdom of Heaven

6. The Third Crusade 1189 – Christians arrived Captured coastal cities
Failed to retake Jerusalem
Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted)
Negotiated to allow Christian Pilgrims access

7. The Fourth Crusade
Roughly 1200 – Italian Crusaders look to recapture Jerusalem
1204 – Crusaders attack…
Constantinople?
Italy (Venetians) and Byzantium (Constantinople) were competitors in trade

8. The Children’s Crusade (1212)
Went to Italy, Pope told them to go home
Roughly the same time, 20,000 French kids were promised by a French ship leader to be taken to Holy Land
What happens?!?!?!
Seven ships, two go down in a storm, the other five taken to North Africa
Kids are sold into slavery