The Crusades were Europe's version for "holy wars" during the Middle Ages. The official First Crusade began in 1096-1099. The First Crusade conquered a strip of land along the eastern coast of the Mediteranean about 500 miles long and averaging 40 miles wide. This European foothold in the Middle East was divided into four little kingdoms; the county of edessa, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli and the kingdom of Jerusalem this kingdoms were ruled …showed first 75 words of 497 total…

…showed last 75 words of 497 total…soon after the turn of the century,events were preparation in Constantinople that would cause the Fourth Crusade to take a dramatic turn away from Palestine. The Fourth Crusade did not recover jerusalem in 2 fact, it never even made it to Outremer: rather, the Crusdes ended by attacking Constantiple, driving out the Byzantine Emperor, and installing one of their own in the ancient capital of constatinople. The email me at a_coolguy56@yahoo.com please