Tens of thousands of people made their way east. Numbers beyond Urban’s wildest imaginings responded to his call and set off on what became known as the First Crusade. The Emperor Alexius Comnenus sent messengers to the Pope asking for help. Now a new and powerful group, the Seljuk Turks, were pushing west, threatening the Christian Byzantine Empire and its capital, Constantinople. By this time it had already lasted more than four centuries, and until recently Christians living under Islamic rule had been well treated. Muslim rule in the Holy Land was not new.

Pope Urban II, speaking at a Council of the Church at Clermont (France), asked the knights and lords of Europe to rescue the Holy Places in Jerusalem from their Muslim rulers, and promised them a special indulgence* if they did so. In 1095 the first step was taken in what was to become one of the great movements of the Middle Ages: the Crusades. High School Government, Economics, and Civics.元-Science Through Time (Secrets of the Universe).L2-Y2-Human Body and History of Medicine.Introduction to Geography and Earth Studies.元-From Sea to Shining Sea Reading List.L2-Introduction to British History for British Students – 3 Year Option.L1|L2-3year-Introduction to British History.L1|L2-2year-Introduction to British History for British Students.L2-Introduction to British History for American Students.National History Outline for Australian Students.L2-Y1- First Christians Reading Schedule.178) : ' Their clothes flapped heavily around them, their sandal-thongs chafed and hardened in the knots, and they thought themselves lucky to achieve enough fire for a warm meal and drink drying themselves was not possible, and daily they expected to see the. Spine fine, binding tight !! No names, marks, tears, folds, stains, nor bumps. Front cover graphic shows the three travellers outside the walls of Belle Desiree.

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The Donkey's Crusade by Jean Morris