The pope made a very moving speech, which inspired many people including the peasants and encouraged them to fight if they were religious, saying that all they're sins would be atoned for.
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∙ 14y agoPeasants saw joining a crusade as a way to escape their harsh living conditions, find adventure, and potentially gain wealth and social status. The promise of forgiveness for their sins and the opportunity to secure a place in heaven also influenced their decision to join crusades.
Peasants wanted to join crusades because it gave them legitimacy and representation. Otherwise, they were too poor and meaningless to have representation on their own.
In short, Pope Urban II wanted to capture the Holy Land from the Turkish Muslims, and he preached vigourously on it, even going so far as to say joining in the crusades would ensure salvation. Soon many peasants had begun their own unofficial crusade, known as the "Peasants Crusade". The emotionaly unstable mob was slaughtered by the Turkish Muslims very easily. The official crusade is called the "First Crusade" [1096-1099] and it had great European nobles at the front. This crusade captured Asia Minor for the emperor Alexius Comenus, recaptured Jerusalem, and also a strip of land on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterrainean Sea. The "Second Crusade"s [1147-1149] goal was to attack Damascus (which actually was friendly to the Crusaders), but it failed miserably. In 1187, Muslims again took control over Jerusalem, leading to the "Third Crusade" [1189-1192] also known as the "Crusade of Kings". This crusade accomplished very little. The "Fourth Crusade" [1202-1204] didn't even reach the Holy Land, but attacked Constantinople. The "Children's Crusade" [1212] was utterly ridiculous in that the entire group consisted of children that marched toward the Mediterranean, hoping that God would divide the waters for them, instead, were tricked by slave traders, and sold to North African Muslims. The other crusades after this also accomplished nothing. In all, most of the crusades were irrational and unreasonable. What they DID do was open up trade with europe and the orient some years later.
Other peasants, which is why there were so many of them.
The first crusade was so successful, because the muslim defenders were so un unified.
....im gonna guess Peasants. I'm not really sure. Roman Peasants seems likes a retarted name.....so just Peasants i guess.
A score is twenty people. So a whole bunch of peasants.
Were everyone peasants, there would be no peasants.
Royalty ruled and had many estates and castles so peasants lived in shacks and such. The geographyb was very different for peasants
He showed that all peasants are foolish so they are brutally suffered.
No he/it is not attractive at all what so ever
Peasants were similar throughout the world, but in China there was no modern technology so working in the fields were a lot harder.