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The Holy City
city of Jerusalem, was controlled by Muslims. When Pope Urban II
By 1095, much of the Middle East, including the holy
at Clermont,
Pope Urban II received reports of Christians being asked for help
attacked there, he declared it was every Christian’s France.
duty to help one another and to WIN JERUSALEM
BACK for Christianity. The First Crusade was born.

Jerusalem falls would hear his call.
The Pope hoped knights
and other military men

The bloody beginnings of The capturing of

RELIGIOUS WAR for the Holy Land the bloodiest episodes
Jerusalem was one of
of medieval history.

People believed they
would go straight to heaven
People’s Crusade if they died on Crusade.
Across Europe, people answered the
Pope’s call. While the knights were
still forming an army, the PEOPLE’S
CRUSADE, made up of peasants, left
for Jerusalem. About 40,000 people
set off, but they were massacred by
the Muslims before reaching the city.

How it changed The fall of Jerusalem

The First Crusade was
the start of centuries of The main armies of knights fought their way to Jerusalem,
struggle for the Holy arriving in June 1099. After a month of siege, they BROKE
Land, causing long-lasting THROUGH THE WALLS. The crusaders poured into the city
bitterness and hatred. children, and stealing everything they found. The Christians had
the world
and went on a bloody rampage, murdering men, women, and
44 captured Jerusalem, but the Muslims would soon respond.