What+are+the+Crusades?

==The Crusades were a series of religious military campaigns. Europe, France, and Rome were part of it. They were also called War of the Cross. ==


 * ====The Crusade for restoring Christian control of the Holy Land were over the years of 1096 til 1270 ====
 * ====Mainly fought against Muslims of Mid. East. ====
 * ====travelled from France through Italy, then Eastern Europe and then through what is now Turkey ====
 * ====had to drink sewage water, urine, and animal blood when water ran out ====

Christians fought to get the Muslims back. Muslims fought to keep Jerusalem. This was the beginning of the First Crusade (lasted 3 years)


Muslims killed whoever they wished and at the end of the First Crusade, roughly 70,000 people were dead.
====//The Crusade of 1101// was a minor crusade of 3 wars, organized in 1100 and 1101 after the succes of the First Crusade. It was also called the **Crusade of the Faint-Hearted** for the people who joined after turning back from the First Crusade. ==== ====They wanted to find their own way to the Holy Land, to free the Holy Land from the infidel in the name of Jesus Christ. They wanted the eternity in Heaven that they said came after they had fought for the Lord's name. Some were runninging from the scorn they received at home. Most people were leaving oppressive poverty in search of a better life. ====