The+Crusades

=__//** Crusades map **//__=

 The colored areas represent where different battles were fought and who owned what country.

There were many weapons used in the battles. Some of the included:
 * 1) ballista -- simplest weapon. giant crossbow that could shoot arrows a distance of 350-450 yards in length.
 * 2) mangonel -- called a wild donkey by the Romans. medium range catapult.
 * 3) trebuchet was the most powerful siege weapon. catapult that could fling rocks long range.
 * 4) battering ram -- log cut from a heavy tree. got its name because the Romans said it looked like a ram. It was then tied onto a penthouse to protect the knight from arrows and it took twelve men to swing it.
 * 5) Other knights would try to dig under ground and then set fire to the wall supports underground in hopes that the wall would collapse.
 * 6) Some put long ladders against the wall and trying to climb them without being pushed over or having boiling liquids poured onto them, or being killed by a knight on the wall.
 * 7) huge staircases, called siege towers, that were pushed against the wall and the knights walked up the staircases. When they actually reached Jerusalem however, they waited awhile before attacking to starve their enemy, but it didn't work so they just attacked.