THE CRUSADES

1096 - 1204

THE LETTER

1093 Byzantine Emperor

Alexius Comnenus wrote a letter to Robert the

Count of Flanders

THE LETTERThe letter was a cry for help.

Turks were closing in on the Byzantine capital of

Constantinople.

Emperor Comnenus’ empire was in danger of falling to the Turks.

THE LETTER

Emperor Comnenus used religion, writing that the

Holy Land was in jeopardy, to convince Europeans to help.

POPE URBAN IIWHEN THE POPE READS

THE LETTER HE CALLED

FOR A

CRUSADE

A “HOLY WAR” AGAINST

THE MUSLIMS TO

REGAIN THE HOLY LANDPHOTO SOURCE:www.acsu.buffalo.edu.es/pope_urban_ii.jpg

THE HOLY LAND

THE HOLY LAND IS WHERE

JESUS LIVED AND PREACHED

TODAY IT IS THE NATION OF ISRAEL

ITS CAPITAL IS THE CITY IF JERUSALEM

THE HOLY LAND

THE HOLY LAND HAD BEEN A PART OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

WHEN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS SPLIT IN TWO IN 395

THE HOLY LAND BECAME A

PART OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM IS SACRED TO THREEDIFFERENT RELIGIONS

JUDAISMCHRISTIANITY

ISLAM

THE HOLY SEPLECHURE

THE CHURCH

BUILT OVER

JESUS’ TOMB

THE HOLY SEPLECHURE

THE HOLY SEPLECHURE

THE HOLY SEPLECHURE

THE HOLY SEPLECHURE

THE HOLY SEPLECHURE

THE HOLY SEPLECHURE

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