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The Crusades
Title: The Crusades
Category: History
Details: Words: 1240 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Crusades
The Crusades
By: Graham Gardiner
There has always been a struggle for the control of the Holy Land, especially Jerusalem, between different religious groups. The two main adversaries were the Moslems and the Christians. Since the seventh century, the Moslems controlled Palestine, but they were merciful rulers and gave Christian peasants free access to Jerusalem to worship at the sacred places and shrines in the city. In 1071, when the Seljuk Turks, who were a more …showed first 75 words of 1240 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1240 total…had been gained by the First Crusade was lost back to the Turks by the year 1291. “In 1917 British troops entered Jerusalem, the first Christian forces to occupy the Holy City since 1244.”
The Crusades may have had holy intentions, but they were not upheld throughout their course. They were full of greed and selfish motives, resulting in thousands of innocent lives being lost. The Crusades were described as the holiest and most brutal journey in history.
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