THE CRUSADES: TWO CENTURIES OF HOLY WAR

Episode 2 | Human History — Groups & MovementsIn this History episode we focus on the Crusades — from Pope Urban II's call to arms in 1095 to the fall of the last Crusader city in 1291, two hundred years of holy war that reshaped the economics of medieval Europe, produced the Knights Templar, and left a wound between the Christian West and the Islamic world that has never fully healed.This episode covers the People's Crusade and its massacres, the First Crusade and the fall of Jerusalem, the rise of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, the catastrophic Fourth Crusade that sacked Constantinople instead of the Holy Land, and the slow decline of a two-century project that ended exactly where it started.Millions of lives. A legacy still felt today.#HistoryMystery #TheCrusades #MedievalHistory #Saladin #HistoryPodcast