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THE CHRUSTIAN CRUSADES A crusade is a holy war undertaken with papal sanction.1095 and 1270 AD the christians were sent out to kill any one who was not a christian. There were sevren crusades in all. The Middle East had been conquered by Muslims and Arabs so the christians had to take over.The crusades were brutal and evil. Many people were forced to convert to Christianity if they dident they were killed.

//1//. The First Crusade In November 1095, Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont-Ferrand in France to launch the First Crusade. The aim was to aid the Christians of the East and return to Christian control the Holy Sepulcher.

//2.//In 1147–49, the Second Crusade, championed by the abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, attempted to take Damascus in Syria. The campaign was a dismal failure because the Muslims had regrouped.

//3.//Third Crusade (1189–92), however, Crusader forces had gained Cyprus and the city of Acre.

//4//.The Fourth Crusade set out in 1202 with Egypt as its goal. After choosing sides in a dynastic dispute in Byzantium, however, the Crusades turned their seige upon Byzantium's capital.

//5.// The Fifth Crusade in 1217-1221 included the conquest of Damietta.

//6.// The Sixth Crusade in 1228-29, Frederick II took part also Thibaud de Champagne and Richard of Cornwall in 1239

//7.// The Seventh Crusade led by St. Louis (Louis IX of France) in 1248-50 died in Tunisia. In 1291, the Crusader city of Acre fell, and the era of Latin Crusader kingdoms ended.