Crusades

1097

This weeks guest is Pope Urban the 2, here to comment on the crusades and how they affected Europe. 

During the year of 1097 Europe was disorganized and poorly ruled. And during this time the Muslims had taken over Jerusalem, and Christians who wanted to travel to Jerusalem were not let in, or hassled by the Muslims. I asked people to volunteer to go retake the Holy Land. Plus i feel like they needed something to do besides kill each other. I had rallied over 10,000 people to go on a crusade to take the Holy Land. The first crusade was not succesfull, because we did not inticapate the lack of food and the climate which was sandy and hot, like how did we miss that. This would lead to a series of nine crusades, which creates tention between the superior christians  and the muslims.This helped link Europes culture with the middle east’s. It gave us knowledge and holy artifacts that rightly belonged to us.

Thank you oh holy pope i thank you for being on my show but its time to move on to our next guess.