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Byzantine army is destroyed by Turks
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Mercenary Seljuk Turks conquer Syria and Palestine. The City of Jerusalem is taken from the more civilized Saracen caliphs
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3000 Christian Pilgrims were massacred in Jerusalem and the Christian churches were destroyed or used as stables
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Peter the Hermit took up the cry "God wills it!" and ordinary people join in the 'People's Crusade' - most were unarmed
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The Peoples Crusade were annihilated by the Turks in Anatolia
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Siege of Nicacea
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The Siege of Antioch
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Bohemond I, elder son of Robert Guiscard, led the capture of Antioch
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The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city