Da Crusades!

Richard The Lionheart was in the crusades.

Religion did not cause all the wars in history, of course.

Muslims sacked the christian cities.

The Christians called the western Europeans for help against the Muslims.

The Crusades were not primarily fighting, they were primarily pilgrimages for the Christians.

Lords were at a higher level than kings in The Crusades.

The crusades were also to prove that the knights were loyal to God and Jesus.

There was no leader of the knights in The Crusades.

The Christians took Jerusalem, which was a great win for them.

The third crusade was the most famous of The Crusades.

One of the leaders of the Christians drowned in a river while he was bathing. Idiot.

There were lots of crusades.

The Crusaders made a deal with the venicians, if they caught the rebellious city of Zara, which was christian, they would give them transport.

The Crusaders failed to capture Zara. Idiots.

The Crusades don't seem to matter to me.

The Crusades were not exactly holy wars.

The Crusaders were defeated by the Persians.

The Crusades were not an early example of europeans conquering the middle east.

The christians saw the capture of jerusalem as a miracle.

The guy who drowned make a radical change in The Crusades.

The fourth crusade was the most crazy one, and the most people volunteered to fight in it.

The Crusaders actually never took back any of the holy land.

The crusades were an epic fail for the christians.

The turks were the ones that sacked the christian cities.

The crusaders were actually some kind of militia.

The crusaders were said to normally be second or third sons for the lords, but they were actually mostly peasants.

Lots of crusaders listened to the words of preachers like Peter the hermit.

The egyptians were the main bad guys in the third crusade.

Richard and Saladin were great generals.

The Crusades were pretty boring.

The Crusades were romanticized by the likes of Sir Walter Scott.

The Byzantines called the west for help when they got sacked by the turks.

On another note, on animal crackers, maybe yummy stuff doesn't need to be pleasingly shaped.

Pilgrims kept robbing those that they found on their pilgrimage, which was a problem.

The two types of islamic religion was a problem for the muslims.

The Crusaders tried to capture egypt.

Richard The Lionheart called off the third crusade, and Saladin, the leader of the muslims at that time, died of a fever soon after.

The Crusades didn't open contact with the muslims for the christians, those contacts were already open.

The Crusaders liberated Jerusalem.

The Crusaders had a holy cross on their armor.

The Crusaders took up arms to protect christ and his kingdom.

The Crusaders killed a lot of people in a certain mosque.

The Crusades started in 1095 BCE.

Christianity didn't have an idea of a holy war.

The Crusaders were extremely loyal to Jesus and God.

The third crusade was a response to the Islamic rise in egypt.

Richard the Lionheart was a king, and he had 2 buds in the third crusade.

Saladin died in easter of 1192.

Crusading continued through the 14th century.

The crusaders didn't walk through anatolia because it was dangerous and hot.

The crusaders instead went by boat to the place that they were going to conquer.

In the fourth crusade, the crusaders were going to invade north africa, which was not part of the holy land.

The crusaders were stuck in The Byzantine Empire because they were promised money from a Byzantine King, who was dethroned by another king.

After that happened, the crusaders attacked Byzantium, killing people on the way.

The crusades are featured prominently in history because they were christian crusades.