Saladin

culture being able to educate the public about the Crusades and Muslim/Christian relationships of the past. Two cuts of this film exist. The theatrical cut is 140 minutes long and tells the basic story of Crusader Balian of Ibelin, Muslim leader Saladin, and the fall of Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. The director’s cut, released in 2006, is 192 minutes long and fills in some of the gaps of the story the theatrical cut was missing. While the film contains many historical inaccuracies, it promotes

ad-Din, who regrouped the Muslims and motivated them to take back what believed was theirs. Their leader died a few years later, and was succeeded by their military leader, Saladin. In 1187, Saladin took his now revived and recuperated army to recapture Jerusalem. In July, he crushed the crusaders front line army in Galilee. Saladin then led his troops throughout the area of Jerusalem and finally took Jerusalem in early October. This led to Pope Gregory VIII starting a third crusade. The people in the

Louis and Conrad, with the remnants of their armies, made a joint attack on Damascus, but had to raise the siege after a few days. (Alchin 12) This closed the second crusade. The capture of Jerusalem by Saladin stimulated the third crusade. Having made himself sultan of Egypt, Saladin united the Moslems of Syria under his sway and then advanced against the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

These past few weeks, everyone in the tenth grade has been learning about the crusades. The people, weapons, food, diseases, and technological advances (or disadvantages since it was the Dark Age) were all taught to us and now it is time to put it to the test. We learned that the crusades affected all three religions that have ties to Jerusalem, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. We watched Kingdom of Heaven, a historical fiction movie based on the crusades. The time of the story that we see is based

The Third Crusade is one of the most famous Crusades in history. This essay will examine the success of this crusade through the perspective of the European force. The Third Crusade was aptly named because it was the third wave of religious soldiers to travel to the modern day Middle East and wage a war for the holy city of Jerusalem. There is a certain level of multiple causation that can be gleaned from the beginnings of this Crusade. First, Richard I had recently become king after his father Henry

The Crusades The crusades were a dark time for humanity. This period of time was before the enlightenment, before real established governments, this was a time of kings and popes and chaos. The one established voice in the world was the church and they knew it. This monopoly of the information and influence was being threated by the Muslims and made them fear loosing their control and this fear led to the crusades. The crusades were multiple attempts by the Christians of Europe to clam the holy

virtues is courage. Even in the face of grave danger, his bravery wins over his fear, as is evident in so many places throughout The Boy Knight. Perhaps Cuthbert’s most valorous act in the book is saving King Richard’s life in a great battle with Saladin. Despite imminent danger, Cuthbert slashes his way through the battle to the place where the king is being defeated by Muslim hordes,

The Medieval Times, also known as “The Middle Ages” (5th-15th century), was a period in history that started when Rome fell in 476 CE. Important political characters found the Medieval Time important because it allowed these people to push and conquer different lands. Richard the Lionheart was one of the important political characters because he was the one to rule the third crusades. Richard the Lionheart was born on September 8, 1157, in Oxford, England. Even though he couldn’t speak English, he

The Crusades was a set of wars between the Catholic Church and Muslims. These wars lasted from 1096 A.D. to 1291. The Crusades are known as “successful failures” because two of the nine crusades were successful, the First and Third. On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II called for a crusade to help the Byzantine’s take back the city of Jerusalem. The First Crusade was led by Raymond of Saint Gilles, Godfrey of Bouillon, Hugh of Vermandois, and Bohemond of Taranto. From 1096 to 1099, the Catholics

Triston Janise 2-8-15 Coach Wade World history The fall of Jerusalem. There are many reasons for the fall of the city of Jerusalem. Some of those reasons being that the defenders of the city were completely out-numbered by Saladin’s army, the weakness of the city’s walls, a long siege by Saladin’s army, and the collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem itself. When Saladin’s army approached the city of Jerusalem the defenders of the city was starchily out numbered. The cause of this was the fact