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Crusades - Wikipedia Historians consider the crusader military architecture of the Middle East to demonstrate a synthesis of the European, Byzantine and Muslim traditions and to be the most original and impressive artistic achievement of the crusades
CRUSADER Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster Crusader : a person who participated in any of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to win the Holy Land from the Muslims
Crusades - World History Encyclopedia The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains There were eight major official crusades between 1095 and 1270, as well as many more unofficial ones
Smarthistory – The Crusades The Crusades Crusades were religious wars undertaken by Christians from western Europe Their goal was to capture the Holy Lands of the eastern Mediterranean and specifically Jerusalem from Muslims Christian crusader states resulted for varying periods of time
Crusades - Holy War, Jerusalem, Europe | Britannica Although still backward when compared with the other civilizations of the Mediterranean basin, western Europe had become a significant power by the end of the 11th century It was composed of several kingdoms loosely describable as feudal
What Were the Crusades and How Did They Impact Jerusalem? Crusader kings ruled the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Citadel, just south of David’s Gate (the present-day Jaffa Gate) Although the Crusaders made few alterations to Jerusalem’s walls, they rebuilt the Citadel by reinforcing David’s Tower (far left) and the fortress’s walls