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"I, or somewhat the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to [persuade] everyone of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and abundant, to carry aid promptly to prospects Christians and to ruin that vile competition from the lands of our own friends. I say this to those who find themselves present, it is intended also for many who are absent. Additionally, Christ orders it." (Pope Urban II, 1095) Of the many campaigns during the DARK AGES, few are as impressive or seemingly impossible to succeed at the start as the First Crusade (1095-99), and the true crowning achievement of that crusade, which led to two decades of EUROPEAN Christian states in the Middle East and the everlasting firing of the European creativeness, was the conquest of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099 after three weeks of siege. That victorious siege emerged four years after the call for a crusade first went, and experienced the Crusaders not used Jerusalem, the First Crusade would not likely have been followed by any more and the advertising campaign may have been only an historical footnote of what could have been. As it turned out, the siege of Jerusalem and the crusade as a whole says much about the first major clash of American and Eastern military tactics after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as the power of trust and even fanaticism to encourage people beyond standard human stamina. For better and worse, the siege and fall of Jerusalem to the Crusaders has turned into a fundamental piece in the current view of the Western in that part of the world. Indeed, even today, the First Crusade remains a polarizing event, even among modern historians.
