overview of the Crusades

3. • Significant power of western europe
• Invasion of Seljuk turks
• general alexius comnenus
• November 1095, The beginning of crusades

7. • Four armies of crusades
• “People’s Crusade”
• The first clash between the crusades and muslims
• The surrender of Seljuk capital in anatolia

10. Second Crusades(1147–49)
• “Franks”
• the loss of the northernmost Crusader state
• the Second Crusade
• The end of the Second Crusade

11. Third Crusade (1187-92)
• seized Cairo in 1169 and forced the Crusader army to evacuate
• In 1187, Saladin began a major campaign against the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Third Crusade, led by the aging Emperor Frederick Barbarossa
• The Battle of Arsuf
• a peace treaty that reestablished the Kingdom of Jerusalem

12. • newCrusade in 1198
• Alexius IV was strangled
• the FourthCrusade ended with the devastating Fall
of Constantinople

13. Final Crusades (1208-1271)
• The Albigensian Crusade (1208-29)
• Children’s Crusade
• the Fifth Crusade
• the Sixth Crusade
• the Seventh Crusade

14. The Mamluks
• former slaves of the Islamic Empire
• the Mamluks demolished Antioch in 1268
• Louis organized the Eighth Crusade in 1270
• the Ninth Crusade

15. The Crusades End
 the end of the Crusader
 the Church organized minor Crusades
 decline of papal authority

16. heightened
interest in
travel and
learning
throughout
Europe
successfully
extended the
reach of
Christianity and
Western
civilization
Improvement in
Trade and
transportation
Effects of the Crusades

18. Work Citated
History.com Editors, “Crusades.” History, A&E Television Networks, June 7, 2010, Accessed on August 31, 2019, Retrieved from
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/crusades

19. ANY QUESTIONS?