The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . he rnlers Avho were eoneerned: priests and kings,nobles, townsmen, and peasants, alike took arms againstthe infidel. The story of the Crusades, therefore, isone of the most important and interesting parts ofmedijeval history. Nothing can better show what the^Middle Ages were like; and nothing helped more thanthey did to bring the iMiddle Ages to an end. The object of this movement was to bring Palestine,where Christ had lived and died, again under the ruleof Christians. Until the Arabs began their conquestsin th
The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . he rnlers Avho were eoneerned: priests and kings,nobles, townsmen, and peasants, alike took arms againstthe infidel. The story of the Crusades, therefore, isone of the most important and interesting parts ofmedijeval history. Nothing can better show what the^Middle Ages were like; and nothing helped more thanthey did to bring the iMiddle Ages to an end. The object of this movement was to bring Palestine,where Christ had lived and died, again under the ruleof Christians. Until the Arabs began their conquestsin the seventh century, the land had bem ruled by the THE FIRST CRUSADE i: Eastern Emperors. Even after the religion of ]Moham-med was established, side by side with that of Christ,the Christians did not at first feel so badly -^j, ^heabout it. They Avere too busy at home, b^gin*fighting the Northmen and Hungarians, *^®-and settling the institutions under which th(\y were tolive, to give nnieli attention to things so far , the Arabs respected the holy places of the. MAI OF THE CKISAIiKS Christians, and allowed pilgrims to Jerusalem to comeand go without harm or hindrance. But, about thirty years before William the NormancoiKjuered P]ngland, a new race appeared in the Turks, who were a rude, fierce people Th© Xurlcs from Centrnl Asia, of close kin to the old oppress the , p 1 t 1 Christians, Huns, took the power troin the Arabs; and the treatment of tiie Christians was thenceforth very different. The Turks also were ^lohammedans, but 134 TEE STOEY OF THE MIDDLE AGES they did not have the same respect for the religion ofthe Jews and Christians that the Arahs did. Besides,they were fiercer and more bloodthirsty, and in a shorttime they won from the Eastern Empire lands whichthe Arabs had never been able toconquer. Even Constantinoplewas not safe from them. From Jerusalem to the .EgeanSea, wrote the P^mperor of theEast to a Western ruler, theTuikish hordes ha
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