History is such a fascinating part of our world because we get to look back on how the world was during a certain period of time. Everything that we do as a society, as a race, and even just one person has a history or creates one. The history of the evolution of technology is such a fascinating process through years of hard work and research that it is amazing that it is only a small fraction of history. We talk about the beautiful, strong, and smart women and men of our past and their accomplishments and with that comes with the ugly side of history that society must learn from. Such as war, racism, and harmful toxins that have harmed our world. History is powerful if we could just learn from it. Today let’s go back and learn about the Crusades and the women of the middle ages. To begin with, the main reasons why Urban II calls the Crusades all started on November 27th, 1095. When Jerusalem was over taken by the Selijuk Turks the Christians were banned from the Holy City. Then adding on to that issue was when the Turks decided to be tough guys and threaten to take over the Byzantine Empire as well as Constantinople. Alexius the 1st asked Urban for help. Urban decided to help because he knew it would benefit the possibility of uniting Christian Europe. Urban delivered a monumental speech that rallied his people, rich and poor, to join together and take back Jerusalem. Even though the Christians were outmatched by skilled and trained warriors, the Christians held the upper hand by having the more massive Army. Before the Crusaders even get out of Europe they have already started killing “infidels” – but what happens at Mainz is that women, the old, the children, and all the virgins were massacred in their homes. The Jews paid for protection, but the protection left them. After reaching the Holy Land, the Crusaders take Jerusalem – the kind of battle that Fulcher depicts is not what I would even consider a battle after reading his quote. The so called enemy was running for their lives trying to get away, meanwhile the women and children who could not run were beheaded or killed in different ways. There was no “battle”, but a massacre is what it had become. According to Fulcher this is a small portion of his depiction “On the top of Solomon's Temple, to which they had climbed in fleeing, many were shot to death with arrows and cast down headlong from the roof. Within this Temple, about ten thousand were beheaded. If you had been there your feet would have been stained up to the ankle