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The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Muslims and Christians. They were at war to keep both of their places of worship safe.
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An important battle fought between the Seljuk forces of the Sultanate of Rum and the people's Crusade, which compromised mainly peasant from Christian lands. This ultimately lead to the end of the people's Crusade.
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A series of events of betrayal, massacre, and heroism. Through capturing Antioch, the crusaders secured lines of supply and reinforcement to the west.
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A decisive event of the First Crusade. Prior to achieving multiple successes in the lands near Jerusalem, the Crusader forces finally converged on Jerusalem and laid Siege to the city in June of 1099.
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Due to the deaths of many laborers, the amount of land under cultivation drastically reduced. This led to many landowners being ruined. During this time, there was a rise in wages for artisans and peasants. These changes resulted in a new fluidity to the hitherto rigid stratification of society.
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A plague pandemic which took place in Medieval Europe lasting from 1347 to 1353 CE. This took the lives of nearly 25-30 million people.
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On November 1st 1348, the Black Death reached London. In the coming months, this led to 200 people being buried everyday.
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There were a series of violent attacks, mass persecutions and massacres of Jews during the Black Death. Jewish people were wrongfully blamed for outbreaks of the Black Death. Nearly 3,000 Jewish people were killed.
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a type of art developed principally in Florence, Italy, during the 15th century and characterized by the development of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and geometrically based compositions.
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One of the most famous bibles around the world, Gutenberg's bible is the earliest full-scale work printed in Europe using moveable type. It was also the first complete book extant in the West and one of the earliest printed from movable type.
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Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. Two months later he landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani.