Crusades
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
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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
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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.
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