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The Crusades: Overview

A guide for Year 8 HASS Students.

Videos

 

In which John Green teaches you about the Crusades embarked upon by European Christians in the 12th and 13th centuries. Our traditional perception of the Crusades as European Colonization thinly veiled in religion isn’t quite right. John covers the First through the Fourth Crusades, telling you which were successful, which were well-intentioned yet ultimately destructive, and which were just plain crazy. 

 

Holy War - In this three-part series Dr Thomas Asbridge presents his revelatory account of the Crusades, the 200-year war between Christians and Muslims for control of the Holy Land. (Part 1) 

 

The Crusades through Arab eyes, from the seizing of Jerusalem under Pope Urban II to its recapture by Salah Ed-Din and the movement's end two centuries later.

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