The Age of the Crusades part 1

This post is on the first Crusade.  You are probably wondering what the Crusades were? The Crusades began in 1095 when the pope commanded (because the Muslim wouldn't let European pilgrims go to Jerusalem) that the knights in England, France, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, etc, to capture Jerusalem. But when the Knights were geting ready to fight, a man named Peter the Hermit was saying that  peasants could fight so before the knights attacked a whole bunch of peasants attacked the Holy Land. It was a disaster.  Many peasants died on the way and the some that made it there were killed by Muslim warriors. When the knights actually did attack it was harder then they thought. The Muslims kept ambushing them and poisoned the wells. When they finally did conquer Jerusalem they were so mad they killed every Muslim in sight.

It was wrong that the Crusaders massacred the Muslims in Jerusalem.  But it was wrong that the the Muslims didn't let Christian pilgrims in their land.  I think the Crusaders were a bunch of silly wars.  It was a dumb reason to fight.

And that was the first Crusade.      

The Battle of Hastings

After Alfred died, the kings of the Saxons kept fighting off the viking's invasions. Finally, in a country called Normandy ( across the English channel ), was a duke named William. He married a Saxon princess and wanted to be king of England. But a man named Harold had just become the king of England. So William told Harold to let him be king of England, and Harold said no. So William gathered his army and prepared them for invasion. He put them on boats and started to sail across the English channel. Harold also got his army, but when he got to the hill at Hastings were the battle would be, his men were super tired, unlike William's men. When the battle started the battle seemed to fail, even though Harold's men were tired. William got knocked off his horse! Then the Normans said, "The king is dead, the king is dead!" But then William got up, and the battle continued. Harold got hit in the eye with an arrow, and died. William then won the battle and was renamed William the conquerer, the only king that had conquered England.

Alfred the great

Hello its me Sasha again i havent had the time to write on my blog for a long time so i skipped some time in history. So now i am talking about the first Saxon kings of England and of the best of them all Alfred the great.In the early times of England  the land had one people on it the Saxons. In those days the Saxons did'nt have a very strong army and had no king so England was very weak. That was not good because a weak country attracts enemies and thats just what happened.A people  called the vikings saw that England was weak and attacked it the Saxons were not as strong as the Vikings and the Vikings took the northern part of England. But the Saxons were not all defeated only the northern part was  conquered not the south. The Viking king Guthrom wanted the south so he was getting his army ready for war. Then a Saxon noble man named Alfred told his people that he will beat the Vikings if he was king. So his people made him king. Then he made his army way better and defeated the Vikings and drove them right back to Scandinavia.