HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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led a children’s crusade that ended with victory.
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saw an opportunity to neutralize the Byzantine Empre and diverted their army to sack Constantinople.
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massacred the inhabitants of Cairo, including women and children.
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were forced to return to Europe after half of their forces perished in storms at sea.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Venetian leaders of the Fourth Crusade saw an opportunity to neutralize their greatest commercial competitor, the Byzantine Empire. Diverted to Constantinople, the Crusaders sacked that great capital city in 1204 and declared the new Latin Empire of Constantinople.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the years 1203 and 1204, the Fourth Crusade was diverted from its intended destination of Egypt, first to the Christian city of Zara and then to the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. At both stops, the Crusaders killed fellow Christians and looted the cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Treaty of Venice, treaty (1201) negotiated between crusaders in the Fourth Crusade and Enrico Dandolo of Venice to provide transport at the cost of 85, 000 marks. The crusaders’ failure to fulfill their monetary obligation was a major factor in the diversion of the crusade to Zara and Constantinople.
Detailed explanation-4: -Let us know. Sack of Constantinople, (April 1204). The diversion of the Fourth Crusade from the Holy Land to attack, capture, and pillage the Byzantine city of Constantinople divided and dissipated the efforts of the Christians to maintain the war against the Muslims.
Detailed explanation-5: -On 13 April 1204 the western or Latin armies participating in the Fourth Crusade conquered Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium. The approaching 800th anniversary of that event has generated renewed interest in the background, context and impact of that crusade, expressed in several new studies and in conferences.