SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Mecca
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Jerusalem
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Rome
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Yathrib
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the support of the Byzantine emperor, the knights, guided by Armenian Christians (57.185. 3), tenuously marched to Jerusalem through Seljuq-controlled territories in modern Turkey and Syria. In June 1099, the Crusaders began a five-week siege of Jerusalem, which fell on July 15, 1099 (92.1. 15).
Detailed explanation-2: -The siege of Jerusalem lasted from 20 September to 2 October 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to Saladin. Earlier that summer, Saladin had defeated the kingdom’s army and conquered several cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, then the capital of the Byzantine Empire.