Part one of term paper
How and why did the Crusades begin, how successful were they and why did the Crusade movement ultimately fail The crusades were military expeditions launched against the Muslims by the Christians in an attempt to regain the Holy Land. They took place between 1095 A.D. and 1270 A.D. The word crusade, which is derived from the Latin crux ("c ...

Part two of term paper
... all lead to a long line of Crusades. In a time of social and religious movements in the west “the crusades were the most obvious manifestation of the papal claim to the leadership of Christian society” 1 The original object of the First Crusade was to free the Holy Land from Muslim control, especially Jerusalem. When Jerusalem fell to the Turks, pilgrimages to the middle east became dangerous. Pope Urban then called “for a great Christian holy war against the infidels.”2 Reclaimi ...