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What was the historical context for the Crusades?


   What was the historical context for the Crusades?


  edimonk
 6/2/09
 

What was the historical context for the Crusades?

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  ericfischer
 6/2/09
 

The Muslim presence in the Holy Land, beginning with the Arab conquest of Palestine in the 7th century AD, put pressure on the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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  ltred12
 6/2/09
 

In the year 1009, Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the Church of the Holy Sepulchre razed.

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