Crusades History
The Crusades were a group of Christian soldiers that were summoned by Pope Urban II who pleaded them to go to war against the Muslims. Pope Urban II was asked by the Byzantine to help with pushing them back. They started moving closer and closer to the Christians, where they eventually took over the Holy Land in 1095 A.D. The Crusades job was to go and take back the Holy Land and anything else. The Crusaders made it up all the way to Palestine and Syria where they held a coastal fort called the Acre which they lost in 1291 A.D. to the Mamluk Dynasty from Egypt. Both faced massive losses in both people and supplies. The ones who suffered the most drastically were the people of the Middle East.