. European history : an outline of its development. uction of their empire. Their callupon the West for help came just at the time when theWest was beginning to be aroused by the stories of thereturning pilgrims, and when the rapidly increasing powerof the popes gave them an interest in heading a great Euro-pean religious movement of the sort. Pope Urban II. proclaimed the crusade and preached itat the council of Clermont in southern France, where hissermon aroused great enthusiasm. God wills it, criedthe great audience, and this became the watchword of thecrusaders. The first crusade was comp
. European history : an outline of its development. uction of their empire. Their callupon the West for help came just at the time when theWest was beginning to be aroused by the stories of thereturning pilgrims, and when the rapidly increasing powerof the popes gave them an interest in heading a great Euro-pean religious movement of the sort. Pope Urban II. proclaimed the crusade and preached itat the council of Clermont in southern France, where hissermon aroused great enthusiasm. God wills it, criedthe great audience, and this became the watchword of thecrusaders. The first crusade was composed almost whollyof Frenchmen or Normans. It marched in four divisionsto Constantinople, one from the region of Lorraine, westof the Rhine, one from the north, and one from thesouth of France, and one led by the Normans of southernItaly, The year before their march a great crowd of un-armed peasants and rabble of the lower orders had beenled in advance by Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penni-less, expecting to take possession of the Holy Land by. Birds-eye View of Rhodes, Time of the Crusades 212 The Crusades [§202 Paris(novel). miracle, but perishing miserably of hunger and by thesword of the Turks in Asia conquest 202. The Rcsults of the First Crusade.—The real cru-.^^^^^^y sade had much trouble at Constantinople in arranging
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