The First Crusade
1096-1099
- The First Crusade began with a holy war between the Christians and the Muslims over Jerusalem.
- The First Crusade lasted between the years 1096-1099.
- Pope Urban II targeted Islam as an enemy of Christianity.
- Pope Urban II repremanded the Muslim's "evil ways" and represented them as a threat to Christians.
- The Byzantine Emperor Alexis I requested assistance from Pope Urban II for the protection of Christians.
- The Crusade further increased hostility between Eastern and Western Christians and the two churches.
- The Crusade's goal was to invest support from every country.
- This Crusade was known as the "Peasant's Crusade" because they were the main reason it elevated.
- Christians wanted to win back their Holy Land, Jerusalem, and free Christians from Islamic rule.
- The Europeans divided their conquest in the Holy Land into four separate principalities: countries of Edessa, Antioch, Neeetripoli and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.