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Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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EUROPE AND THE ORIENT^ IK 1096 ,c Oiitlie eve of the Crusades i ^ ^ j. I IChristiaii Lands (Latin Church) I ) Mohammedan Lauds I CDchristlan Lands (.Greek Church) (U Regions still Pagan ,<\ 100 200 300 400 500 H THE M.-N.WOBKS,BUFFALO. N.Y. Scale of Miles #. Longitude East 10^ from Greenwich
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THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM 133 and marched with uncovered head and bare feet, singing the wordsof the prophet: Jerusalem, lift up thine eyes, and behold theliberator who comes to break thy chains. The city was taken by storm. A terrible slaughter of the infidelsfollowed. And if you desire to know what was done with theenemy who were found there, thus runs a home letter of one ofthe crusaders, know that in Solomons Porch and in his templeour men rode in the blood of the Saracens up to the knees oftheir horses. 142. Founding of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. —The gov-ernment which the crusaders established for the city and countrythey had conquered was a model feudal state, called the LatinKingdom of Jerusalem. The code known as the Assizes of Jeru-salem, which was a late compilation of the rules and customspresumably followed by the judges of the little state, forms one ofthe most interesting collections of feudal customs in existence. At the head of the kingdom was placed Godfr

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