1 THE CRUSADES IN A NUTSHELL
What sent Christian armies to the East?
The era of we think of as the Crusades began in November 1095, when Pope Urban II proposed a military expedition to seize Jerusalem from the Muslims. About 60,000 men, mainly from France, Flanders and Germany, marched into Asia Minor. In 1097, they defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum and, twoyears later, captured Jerusalem. The victorious Crusaders founded four new states in the eastern Mediterranean: Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem