Ibn Al-Athir Dbq

Document _6___ states that the fourth crusade was wasteful and destructive event.The result only further dividing the christian world. And arriving in constantinople the venetians who had been hired to transport the crusaders and the knights agreed to attack the byzantine capital instead. The city was savagely taken as long as may people's lives. This is important because we know now that the fourth crusade was a heart breaking and harsh full event.Document _7___ states that maintaining the kingdom was very difficult. To begin their numbers were small. The crusaders were very dependent on the western europe for supplies and soldiers. To make it worse the crusading knights often abused and committed atrocities against eastern orthodox christians, jews, and muslims in the area they were passing. This is important because the crusades often abused and committed atrocities against other people.This leads to a negative impact

The Pope had all of the power and that led to mass amounts of people going to war for the Pope. In document 4 by the Islamic leader, Saladin, he states that his people should try to retake Jerusalem to get back their holy land and to please God. The people are trying to please their gods and to give their homage to their god. That would show a religious view for the Crusades and their brethren. Document 5 by the Jewish chronicler, Solomon bar Samson, shows that there was a religious aspect to the Crusades, mind it be extremism. The crusaders would see a pack of Jews on the way to the Holy Land and they would give the Jews two choices: 1. they could kill them to avenge the death of Jesus Christ or 2. They could incorporate them into their faith and acknowledge the offspring of promiscuity. Document 7, an excerpt from “In Praise of the New Knighthood” by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, tells of the two-fold war that was being fought by the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitallers. It was a normal killing people war, and it was a spiritual war. You are protected by the armor of faith and an armor of steel. Next, I would have liked a document from Pope Nicholas IV about how the Crusades had to stop. That would have filled in the ending to the story of the Crusades.

Islamic Achievements Over the ancient years, the Muslims gathered ideas from many different places. They generated their own visions of the world based on the thoughts that were inherited from the Greeks, Rome, and India. In addition, they also evolved their ideas when they conquered many different places, all depending on how that certain place was. The Muslims were able to deal with many different cultures, allowing them to practice what they wished, thus giving themselves room to envision their own. The achievements that the people from Islam left behind was and is amazing, and left a big impact for years ahead of their own time. The Muslims of the Islamic Empire were very intent on preserving the knowledge that was passed down, and constantly

Document C is written by Alan Ward a historian, professor at the University of Connecticut, published in 2003. Alan Ward had more freedom and maybe a bit less knowledge

The documents #4, 7, 8, and 9 all share a common theme of military and show the different aspects of the holy warriors (how they were motivated, the routes they took, and their impressive fighting skill). An additional document like a primary source journal entry written by a soldier fighting under Muhammad would help to give insight on the training of the military and how the warrior's acquired their skills. This insider's view would improve the clarity of what a soldier would have experienced and why they personally were so sought on spreading

The modern book source which proves the most useful in discussing the causes and consequences of the First Crusade is Crusades: The Illustrated History, by Thomas Madden. Madden is an extremely reliable source, as he is considered to be an authority on the Crusades, with a BA, MA, and PhD in history.

The Saracens came out and fought vigorously to defend themselves. The Franks were able to make a hole in the wall with the continuous aid of rams pounding against the wall. The Saracens tried to defend the hole in the wall but were unable to due to the Fanks ability to counter the Saracens’ defenses. The Franks cut the ropes that were trying to be used to bring support beams for the hole in the wall and then they set fire to beams and made the defenders retreat from the annoying amount of smoke. The pagans of the city saw the Franks entering the city and retreated to the streets. The attack that got the Franks into the city allowed fro Count Raymond and his men to finally make advances into the city from the other surrounding walls of the city. Many of the Saracens soldiers began to retreat. Battles began to break out on some of the temple's porches and at the courts of the city. In the temple

The Crusades even caused an Empire to never fully recover! In the other piece of evidence it speaks of the Crusades even causing two religions to split up! As you can see, the Crusades did some very bad things to people and were not nice

Document 1 states that The crusades left bitter legacy of religious hatred behind them This is (important/interesting/relevant) because This is important because It states the negative part of the Crusades. Why the Crusaders left hatred behind them is because “In Middle East, both Christians

Document 1 states that They left a bitter legacy of religious hatred behind them.This is important because this it tells you why the Crusades we're hated.Document 4 states that the negative impact the 4th Crusade had on the Christian world was that they destroyed the city to where they couldn't recover.That's negative because it helps discredit the entire Crusading movement.This is interesting because it ruins the entire Crusading movement.Those are the reasons why the Crusaders we're hated.

First of all, the Crusades are remembered for their causes. Document B, are mentioning the cause that began the Crusades.

The selection from Usama Ibn Munqidh’s Kitab al-l’tibar otherwise know in English as the Book of Contemplation is a book in which Usama provides a series of short vignettes as a testimony to his experiences in the medieval Middle East and the Crusades. Through his writings the reader is able to get a Muslim account of the Crusades. It is largely a personal account so many details are left out and much background knowledge is assumed. It also is not the most unbiased source as supported by Usama’s frequent utterence that “Allah render them [The crusading Christians] helpless” (Ibn Munqidh 197) Usama also makes no attempt at analysis or understanding and just writes exactly what he observed without asking questions or delving deeper into

In The middle of the Eleventh Century The tranquillity of the eastern Mediterranean seemed assured for many years to come, but little did the people know what was ahead . This, thus embark us on a journey back into the First Crusade. In this paper I will be discussing the events that lead up to the first in a long line of crusades. I will also be mentioning the lives of some of the crusaders through letters that they wrote. The crusades were a time of confusion for most people, yet today we look back at them as a turning point.

Tell el-‘Amarna, the city built by Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten was located between Luxor and Cairo along the Nile. The city was occupied during the reign of Akhenaten and abandoned after his death by his son, Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Although the city was along occupied for a short period of time, archaeologists have been able to reconstruct a fairly accurate representation of the city. However, because the city was associated with Aten and the religion of the heretic king, the city was partially destroyed and nearly all evidence of the culture during the reign of Akhenaten was destroyed. Although the Egyptian people attempted to erase this pharaoh from history, the city tells the story of the time through the few pieces of art, the tombs, and the city plans. The articles written by Croker and one of the ones written by Kemp discuss the value of architecture and how it related to status within the society of the time. The other articles written by Ikram, and Kemp, Stevens, Dabbs, Zabecki, and Rose discuss the art, religion, and ritual practices. The city of Amarna was created on the basis of abandoning the old gods in favor of the worship of a single god, Aten. Societies in ancient history were based primarily on religion, and while archaeologists try to use Amarna as a basis for the study of New Kingdom Egypt because the religions changed Amarna should not be used as a template. Akhenaten aimed to abandon the old ways

While the Abbasids seized power on the Arabian Peninsula, the Umayyad leader Abd al-Rahman fled to the Iberian Peninsula and built a magnificent kingdom. When he reached Spain, he made it Al-Andalus, also known as Muslim Spain. He gained power by uniting the factions that were already there and defeating the ruling factions. Al-Andalus became a glorious kingdom in the Muslim empire because they had powerful leaders, a stable government, and effective tactics for expansion. The reasons for their decline will also be mentioned in this essay.