The age of the crusades . Pope readily turned to the account of his treasuryby absolving such from their pledge upon paymentof a sum of money equal to that required to provisionthemselves for the voyage, whence great scandaland schism arose among the people. The Emperor Frederick also proposed that theexpedition should be postponed until, with the ralliedforces of his empire, he might give it better assuranceof success. Pope and emperor revived their strifes,and Italy was turned into pandemonium. A few ofthe more ardent managed to escape the entangle-ments at home for more honorable adventures
The age of the crusades . Pope readily turned to the account of his treasuryby absolving such from their pledge upon paymentof a sum of money equal to that required to provisionthemselves for the voyage, whence great scandaland schism arose among the people. The Emperor Frederick also proposed that theexpedition should be postponed until, with the ralliedforces of his empire, he might give it better assuranceof success. Pope and emperor revived their strifes,and Italy was turned into pandemonium. A few ofthe more ardent managed to escape the entangle-ments at home for more honorable adventures in theEast. The King of Navarre, the dukes of Brittanyand Burgundy, reached Syria (August, 1239) andperformed exploits sufficient to more thoroughlyenrage, but not to awe, the Moslems. In 1240 Rich-ard of Cornwall, with a band of English, sailing inspite of the Popes prohibition, landed at Acre, madeseveral raids through Turkish territory, and returned,having gained nothing but a continuance of the trucewith the CHAPTER XLII. BETWEEN THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CRUSADES—THE TARTARS—THE CARISMIAN INVASION. Y a strange providence the sacred placesof Palestine were destined to fall for awhile into other hands than any of theformer great contestants, Christian, Sara-cen, or most astounding events of the thirteenth cen-tury were in connection with the great Tartar irrup-tion. The Mogul hosts under Genghis Khan, or* king of kings, had broken eastward across the GreatWall of China, and poured a tide of desolation overthat ancient empire. As the bloody waves returned,they moved with undiminished force westward andsouthward, flooding all Turkestan, and all lands to theborders of India and the Persian Gulf. These armies,numbering seven hundred thousand warriors, coura-geous, remorseless, and cruel as tigers, were met byfive hundred thousand under Mohammed, Sultan ofCarismia. But even this latter tremendous hostcould not withstand the impact of the Octai, so
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