The Second Crusade was a response to the call by Pope Eugenius III for Western Europeans to embark on an armed expedition to take back the city of Edessa. That city had been captured by the First ...

THE CHAMBERS DICTIONARY gives three definitions of the word 'crusade': '1) a military expedition under the banner of the cross to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims; 2) any daring or romantic ...

In the Middle Ages, the Islamic world close Islamic worldSocieties ... priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period, peasants had to give 10 per ...

Concentric castles - with two curtain (outer) walls - were developed during the crusades, and these ideas were used to improve and fortify castles back in Europe. Islamic armies had used gunpowder ...

threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was unlike anything ever seen before. #EpicHistoryTV #Crusades ...