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Battle in 1071 that saw the Byzantine army broken and defeated and opened up Anatolia to the Seljuk Turks

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Battle in 1071 that saw the Byzantine army broken and defeated and opened up Anatolia to the Seljuk Turks

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Pope Urban II begins preaching for crusaders to leave on a Crusade in 1095

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Unruly mobs of "devout" Christians attempted to make their way to Constantinople. Some made it, but many were killed in Hungry after they attacked Jewish communities and attempted to steal food and treasure.

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The place where the Crusaders were supposed to meet to being in 1097

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Main territory of the Fatimid Caliphate

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Site of the defeat of the People's Crusade. Then, the site of a Byzantine victory over the Turks

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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July, 1097 the Crusaders defeated the local Seljuk warlord in their first victory. The road was now open to the Levant.

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Site of our Reading. Crusaders laid siege to the city in October 1097. The siege lasted until June of 1098, after many Crusaders had died of disease and starvation. Several Muslim relief armies were defeated before the city finally fell and was sacked. Many of the inhabitants, both Christian and Muslim were killed.

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With the Seljuks engaged with the Franks to the north, the Fatimids invaded southern Syria and captured Jerusalem.

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With the city in the hands of the Crusaders, disputes and arguments broke out about what should happen next. Then, a large Muslim army appeared to retake the city. After a siege began to take its toll, the desperate Franks sallied out of the city for a climactic battle that ended with the defeat of the Muslim army

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The first of the Crusader Kingdoms, founded by Baldwin of Boulogne after he became the "adopted" heir and later took control in 1098.  All while the rest of the Crusaders were trying to take Antioch.

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Destination of the Crusaders, they finally arrived in June of 1099. The city fell in July, and then was subjected to an ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Jews in the city. The massacres became notorious in their size. The fall would begin the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Considered the final battle of the 1st Crusade, ended in a Frankish victory over the Fatimids, ending the threat to Jerusalem, but leaving the town in Egyptian hands. Many crusaders finished their pilgrimage and went home.