The Crusades
The Crusades
By: Graham Gardiner
There has always been a struggle for the control of the Holy Land, especially Jerusalem, between different religious groups. The two main adversaries were the Moslems and the Christians. Since the seventh century, the Moslems controlled Palestine, but they were merciful rulers and gave Christian peasants free access to Jerusalem to worship at the sacred places and shrines in the city. In 1071, when the Seljuk Turks, who were a more …
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