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Introduction This report will be stating and investigating the cause and effects of the First and Second Crusade in Europe during the Middle Ages. The cause is a person or thing that gives rise to an action, condition or phenominan. The effect is the change with consequences of and action. It will link these two different events along with their significance in both short term and long term. The significance of an event is the importance or the quality of being worthy of attention. Pope Urban II and Louis VII are the two significant people that played a key role in these events. This report will state both their significance and role in society. The two events will be compared in order to find their interconnections between each other and …show more content…

He was the one that called together to give a speech to all Christians about the invasion that was going to occur on Jerusalem, he left a huge mark in the history of the medieval times. ‘He died on the 29th July 1099 (the year that the first crusade finished), fourteen days after the capture of Jerusalem, but before the tidings of that event had reached Italy, Pope Paschal II killed him’. His role in this crusade was convincing the Christians to accompany him in taking over Jerusalem. His significance is based solely around the fact that he began the crusades and the establishment of land and economy within Europe (Western Europe) would not have been provided without him, let alone the positive effects of every other …show more content…

Out of the eight crusades in total, this was the most unsuccessful crusade in all time, and why is this? Each king from both France and Germany travelled across France, Germany and Italy separately with both the same aim and desires. They urged people to restore the cross and to resurrect the Christians living in the Holy land. The Muslim Turks took over Edessa but in this process an entire population was either slaughtered or sold into slavery to work for the Turks. This all was caused due to a lack of communication between the kings Louis VII (France) and Conrad III (Germany) as they both lost their armies making them easily defeated and no threat to the Muslims.

The two kinds and their armies marched around Europe separately, both with the same intentions. This crusade the Christians were heavily defeated. The holy land was split into 4 different states which they had possession over, although, they lost one to the Muslim Turks. This crusade was different, it was a Catholic War against Islam. The main area that all the feuding was over was the city of Edessa, located just north of Jerusalem (at this point in ownership of the Christians).

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