The Crusades Dbq

Pope Urban made his proposition to them all. Pope Urban’s proposition was, that if they started a Crusade, then they could free the Holy Land, and to do that they needed to fight the Muslims and not each other. If they did this, then Pope Urban promised them that when they succeeded in doing so, then there were new lands in Palestine that would be easily accessible for them to conquer, as well as promised Spiritual Rewards.
The Knight’s Crusade split itself into four main armies, consisting mostly of people from French backgrounds, and their families, for they believed they would succeed and gain new land quickly. Although the four armies took different routes, they all had the same first destination – Constantinople. Each Army was led by a

Within the Crusaders army, a Lance was found and this was thought a sign of good luck from God, as the Lance was a Holy Relic to the Christians, and the trapped Christians saw this as a sign of hope and surprise-attacked the Turks surrounding their land and managed to drive them away. With the Turks gone, the road to Jerusalem was clear and the Christians were able to get there without the constant fear of attackers.
Five months after ridding themselves of the Turks, the Crusaders began to head towards Jerusalem. Though all the leaders of the Crusade armies claimed to have wanted to accompany on this journey to reclaim the Holy Lands for the Church, but some were more interested in the prospect of new lands to be founded and conquered.
The Crusader Kingdoms were given to the Leader of the Army who conquered that land. The County of Edessa was given to Baldwin of Boulogne after manipulating and consequently murdering Thoros the ruler of Edessa at that point of time. The Principality of Antioch fell in the hands of Bohemund after he captured it for himself and disregarding his Oath of Allegiance with the Byzantine Emperor,

The Crusaders attacked the people of Jerusalem so mercilessly that they “waded in blood up to their ankles” (Page 10, paragraph 1, line 1). So many were slaughtered that day, a combination of Jews and Muslims, children and adults. The slaughter and rampage went on for three days before the looting, burning, and death began to cease. More than 70,000 corpses from that day were found by the end of the battle. Godfrey of Bouillon not only became Monarch of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but also Defender of the Holy Sepulchre.
A fourth Crusade Kingdom was captured and conquered soon after the conquer of Jerusalem, the County of Tripolis, and by the time the mid-12th Century came around, the Christian Knights of the Crusade had conquered approximately 800km long and 160km wide slab of land from under the rule of the Turkish