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What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars launched by the Christian states
of Europe against the Saracens.
The term 'Saracen' was the word used to describe a Moslem :
during the time of the Crusades.
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
The Crusades started in 1095 :
when Pope Claremont preached the First Crusade at the Council !!
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
The purpose :
To rescue the holy places of Palestine
from the hands of the Mohammedans !!!
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
The First Crusade :
The first crusade, which lasted from 1095-1099 :
established the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, providing more lands
for the crusading knights, who often travelled across Europe
to try their fortunes and to visit the Holy Sepulchre.....
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
We now in 2012 :
Crusaders dont LEARN ! .... ::arab::
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
Were the Muslims ever defeated during the Crusades ?
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
Yes, for a time.
The Muslims got it back after a while, though. :wink:
The battle of Dorleaum in modern Turkey,
The conquest of Antioch
The conquest of Jerusalem
can be given as examples of Crusader victories.
all dis took place between 1096 and 1100 !
Also, in the 1190s, Richard the Lionhearted:
pretty much helped save the crusader states and let them live on
for another hundred years...
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
Then came :
Saladin, the Muslim leader
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - ketchim - 09-13-2012
The Crusaders introduced Westernaggression to the peaceful Middle East
and then deformed theenlightened Muslim culture, leaving it in ruins ....
Re: What Were The Crusades ? - Kwami - 09-13-2012
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=71124.msg441049#msg441049 date=1347558753]
The Crusaders introduced Westernaggression to the peaceful Middle East
and then deformed theenlightened Muslim culture, leaving it in ruins ....
[/quote] only parts of the muslim culture was ever a beakon and that was the Kurdish part . Salhadin was a Kurd and even to this day Kurds are a foward progressive people .
Unfortunately the Kurds are being supressed in all the Arab lands but whenever they have a chance for autonomy as in Northern Iraq , they flourish. Arabs on the whole are a backward people with non oil exports accounting for less than 5 percent.
They made no scientific breakthrough in 500 years and when the oil runs out they will revert back to a nomadic roaming lifestyle.
These will always be a tribal component to these people and they will never fit into the mordern age