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The Crusades, 1095–1291
Every chapter, map and battle — indexed
The Crusades, 1095–1291 is an interactive situation map: 12 guided chapters, 15 dated map states, and 40 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the card catalog — every piece of the atlas as a readable, linkable page.
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THE CHAPTERS
Three Civilizations, One Sea
CHAPTER 1 · 1095
The First Crusade
CHAPTER 2 · 1099
A Society on the Edge
CHAPTER 3 · 1150
Europe’s First Standing Institutions
CHAPTER 4 · 1150
Zengi, Nur al-Din, and the Second Crusade
CHAPTER 5 · 1147
Saladin
CHAPTER 6 · 1187
The Third Crusade
CHAPTER 7 · 1191
The Fourth Crusade — The Wrong Ending
CHAPTER 8 · 1204
The Idea Turned Loose
CHAPTER 9 · 1212
The Crusades of Kings
CHAPTER 10 · 1229
Baibars and the End
CHAPTER 11 · 1271
What the Crusades Made
CHAPTER 12 · 1291
THE MAP, YEAR BY YEAR
BATTLES, EVENTS & SITES OF MEMORY
✕ Ain Jalut✕ Arsuf● Bernard preaches the cross◆ Béziers● Damietta✕ Dorylaeum● Frederick’s Jerusalem✕ Jaffa● Krak des Chevaliers✕ La Forbie✕ Las Navas de Tolosa✕ Mansura✕ Manzikert● Richard takes Cyprus● Saladin takes Jerusalem● Seville✕ Siege of Nicaea◆ The Acre garrison● The Baltic crusade● The Council of Clermont✕ The Horns of Hattin◆ The Rhineland massacres● The Saleph✕ The Siege of Antioch✕ The Springs of Cresson● The Temple of Solomon● The Venetian contract◆ The fall of Acre✕ The fall of Ascalon● The fall of Edessa● The fall of Krak◆ The fall of Tripoli● The pretender’s bargain◆ The sack of Antioch◆ The sack of Constantinople◆ The sack of Zara✕ The siege of Damascus◆ The storm of Jerusalem● Toledo● Tunis
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