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The Wujing Zongyao manuscript of 1044 was the first book in history to provide formulas for gunpowder and their specified use in different types of bombs.
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The first official crusade begin with a call to arms from Pope Urban II.This was partly because Urban wanted to unite Europe by giving them a common enemy
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In June 1099, the Crusaders began a five-week siege of Jerusalem, which fell in July 1099.
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Most Christians in the Levant were Orthodox
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With a permanent navy, the Song were prepared to face the naval forces of the Jin on the Yangtze River in 1161, in the Battle of Tangdao and the Battle of Caishi. During these battles the Song navy employed swift paddle wheel driven naval vessels armed with trebuchet catapults aboard the decks that launched gunpowder bombs.[29] Although the Jin forces boasted 70,000 men on 600 warships, and the Song forces only 3,000 men on 120 warships,[30] the Song Dynasty forces were victorious in both battle
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Muslim forces advanced across Syria and finally retook Jerusalem in October 1187.
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The Fourth Crusade set out in 1202 with Egypt as its goal.
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Mongols ended the Song dynasty after many attacks on them and just like many other empires they were going to fall. Another cause because of the fall of the empire was the administration of the buerocrats that took control over them and it was impossible for them to fix the system leading them to the fall because of the weakness.
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Song Taizu was the first emperor of the Song dynasty, he began his career as a military officer serving one of the most important warlords in China. He had a very widley known reputation in 960 his troops made and proclaimed him emperor thanks to his abilities which included honesty and effectivenes. Followed confucian ways and seeked to pass on the education to others.
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