April’s Blog ;)

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Every week in school we now have to write two blog posts on a certain topic for marks. This week it’s on Feudal Europe. I already wrote one about my social studies project on Feudal Europe, so I decided to write something about Feudal Europe in general.

One of the most important things in Feudal Europe was the crusades. Since my project has something to do with crusades, I’m going to write about that because I at least know something about them. So here’s some information about it..

The crusades were a series of wars undertaken by western Europeans to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims. These wars lasted over 200 years. Pope Urban II told the knights that they should go fight for the Holy Land, the land where Jesus lived. He thought Christians should have the land where Jesus lived, not the Muslims. There were five crusades.

The first crusade was the People’s Crusade. Before the lords could get an army, many people went to the Holy Land. They were not like an army but more like a mob. This crusade was not very successful. Many were killed during this crusade.

During the second crusade, the first official army was sent. It started in 1097, and two years later in 1099, the Christians captured Jerusalem.

For the third crusade the Christians called upon people from different countries to fight for the Christians. It was such a fierce war that many people left for war and never returned. In 1187 the Muslims recaptured Jerusalem.

The fourth crusade was led by three kings: Frederick I, Phillip II, and Richard I. Although the Christians won a number of battles they did not capture Jerusalem. After a while, they agreed to make peace for five years even though the Muslims still owned Jerusalem.

The last crusade was the Children’s crusade. Children thought they could win the Holy Land by love, but unfortunately many children were taken as slaves and never reached the Holy Land.

..So I hope I didn’t bore you to death . This is some information about the crusades in the Middle Ages. It’s also some of the information I have included in my essay.

To learn more about the crusades, click here. It’s a website with a lot of information about the crusades in the Middle Ages.

(I would include a picture with this post but my computer won’t let me for some reason :S )

*April