children's crusades

In a century where crusading was on many minds, an attempt of stone-blind faith swept across Europe. Although it is considered a small portion of what historians deem the Holy Wars, it has resembled no other event in the World's history. The year of 1212, was marked prestigious by the dedication of thousands ambitious and innocent children. With nothing but their untainted integrity to aid them, the French and German children struggled on a conquest to unify a world of adults that was torn apart by religious pandemonium, and thus fabricated the Children's Crusades.
During the late 1000's to the 1500's, a series of military expeditions took place. These wars, proclaimed by the Pope, swept over the Latin Christendom out of the feudal-clerical society in Europe. The Crusades were geared to regain and control Palestine. This Holy Land was extremely important to Christians because it was where Jesus Christ had lived. The church took the process a step further, claiming crusading as co...