Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0426 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Crusades as Interaction
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The idea
The Seljuks pushed back the Fatimids, the only Shia caliphate, and shattered Byzantium, whose emperors looked west. The Crusades signaled papal influence and stimulated trade, the Italian city-states, and contact across Afro-Eurasia; Outremer held four states.
In practice
Berger's Manzikert, ten seventy-one, the defeat behind the appeal.
Where people slip
The anchor's failures: massacre of innocents, betrayal of Christians, war for political ends.
Your place on the trail
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