Social Sciences and History / Unit 3 SSH 0236 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Crusades and Their Three Consequences
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The idea
Urban the Second's call in ten ninety-five answered Byzantium's appeal against the Seljuks; the First Crusade took Jerusalem in ten ninety-nine. The anchor's three consequences: Italian city-states enriched, crusading ideology carried into the Reconquista and the Americas, and the Northern Crusades.
In practice
Venice, Genoa and Pisa banking the invasions.
Where people slip
The Middle East changed little; its transformations came with Turks and Mongols.
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