We just learned about the The People's Crusade that was mostly just poor people and not soldiers.
Another part of the First Crusade was The Prince's Crusade.
This was not like the People's Crusade which was just a bunch of poor people.
This was actual armies, with thousands of people.
There were soldiers, horses and even nobles like counts and dukes.
No one is for sure how many, but some people think it was around 10,000 knights, 50,000 soldiers, and a total of 100,000 people in the army.
The armies came out of Europe into what is now Turkey, and fought their way down to Jerusalem.
They fought for 3 years, from the year 1096 to the year 1099 and killed about 100,000 people in the battle.
At the end of it all they took over Jerusalem, left some soldiers there but most people went home.
Through the years many wars have been fought between different countries, and a lot of times the people in power would use religion as the reason why people should go fight and kill others.
Because the army in the First Crusade won their battles, the countries in Europe used that as a reason to have even more wars using Christianity as the reason to go to war.
(from: wikipedia - first crusade)
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