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The Crusaders were Christian men brought together be the pope.

Crusaders were people (Christians) who were on an expedition to bring Christianity to city, land, town, village anywhere they went they brought Christianity with them. These particular Crusaders wanted to save the "Holy Land" from the Franks. The first part of the first crusade was quite disastrous.

The first group of men had no experience with fighting, and they also had no supplies. Somehow they became more willing to go in fact on their way to the "Holy Land" they attacked and even burned a lot of towns they traveled through.

King Louis of France and King Conrad of Germany were the leaders of the second group of men who went on the first crusade. This group was a little more successful; they captured many cities from the Turks on their way to the "Holy Land." One problem was that the Kings were having disagreements and the men were going hungry and getting sick then dying, but none of that mattered to them as long as they one the battle!

In the end they had beaten the Turks, and they had made the "Holy Land" a kingdom in Jerusalem in the year 1099!

The Crusaders ruled over the "Holy Land" for eighty-eight years.

Until a Muslim leader Saladin, took over the "Holy Land" in the year 1187.

That is when Richard the Lion-Hearted of England, Fredrick Barbarossa of

Germany and Philip Augustus of France and their armies started the third crusade, so that they could attempt to win back the "Holy Land." Not Many Germans made it to the "Holy Land" but the French and the English made sure that they got there. The other leaders got upset with Philip Augustus and sent him and his army back to Europe. The Muslims still had control over most of Jerusalem, but King Richard mad a treaty with Saladin saying that

Christian pilgrims could go through Jerusalem peacefully.

There also what people call a "Children’s Crusade" this was when thousands of French and German children decided that they wanted to go t the "Holy Land" too, and so they did. Few children ever cam home because they had either been killed or been sold as slaves.

I think Crusade’s are wrong. You should not force people to become Christians, or threaten to hurt or even kill them if they don’t become a Christian. It is good to tell people about how God sent Jesus to die for us and all the other great things he has done but you should not force people into something.

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