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Byzantine Emperor asked for help against invaders who were Muslim Turks also known as the Ottoman Turks
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A group of Arabs took control of Jerusalem.
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Pope Urban the 2nd read the letter in November asking for help and called for a “holy war” or CRUSADE
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Unprepared troops, no strategy, captured Jerusalem, carved in up into 4 Crusader states
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Muslim leader Saladin takes control of Jerusalem, Muslim Turks re-conquer the city, Saladin is described to be honest and brave
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Richard the Lionhearted = English King and two other leaders fail to recapture Jerusalem, he and Saladin respected each other.
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Crusades attack Constantinople instead Stole statues, money, paintings and jewelry, burned libraries, destroyed churches, said they needed money to defend Constantinople from the same fate as Jerusalem and to rescue Jerusalem from Muslims, people of Constantinople hated the west for sacking their city.
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Thousands of French and German children try to reach Jerusalem, believed God would help them because they were children, many died of hunger, some froze to death, when they reached the Mediterranean sea, expected they waters to part for them…. They didn’t, forced to return home.
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The Christians are finally pushed out of Jerusalem, Muslim Turks are the victors and take over the Byzantine in 1453.