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Two captivating manuscripts in one book:

The Crusades: A Captivating Guide to the Military Expeditions During the Middle Ages That Departed from Europe with the Goal to Free Jerusalem and Aid Christianity in the Holy Land
The Silk Road: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Network of Trade Routes Established during the Han Dynasty of China and How It Connected the East and West

It could be said that European kings and nobles in the Middle Ages were Crusade mad. The enormous amount of fighting men who periodically sailed off to the Near East to do battle with Muslims are evidence of the widespread popularity of overseas adventurism at the time. The notion of a Crusade, in which large armies assembled from various regions of Europe for the purpose of doing battle with Turkish and Arab Muslims, became so fixed that it was expanded to include Crusades against heretical European Christian sects.

Here are just some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book:

The First Crusade (1095-1099) -The Pope Calls the Faithful to Arms
The Armies of the First Crusade Engage with the Enemy
The Aftermath of the First Crusade
The Second Crusade (1147-1149) The Beginnings of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
The Third Crusade (1189-1192) - The King's Crusade
The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) - The Latin Empire of Constantinople and the Children's Crusade
The Fifth Crusade (1217-1221)
The Sixth Crusade (1228) - The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II Takes the Cross
The Seventh Crusade (1248-1254)
The Eighth Crusade (1270)
And much, much more

Here are just some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book:

Rome, Silk, and Ancient Geography
Han Silk Production and Trade
The Kingdom of Loulan
Buddhists along the Silk Road
Turfan: An Oasis on the Silk Road
The Legend of Prester John
Genghis Khan, Ruler of the Whole World
The Lord of Xanadu, Kublai Khan: The Emperor of China
Marco Polo Visits Kublai Khan's China
The Final Years of Kublai Khan
And much, much more

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The Crusades and Silk Road - pokkari, Englanti, 2020