From 1096 until the end of the Middle Ages, Christian warriors from Europe undertook a series of military campaigns, or Crusades, designed to take back from the Muslims control of the Holy Land
During this time, the Muslim world was more advanced than Europe. Because of their travels and contacts, Europeans were exposed to new ideas about medicine, astronomy, philosophy, mathematics, and ancient literature.
far from suffocating trade between avowed enemies, the age of the crusades witnessed an almost exponential growth in the scale and scope of commercial contact between Islam and Latin Europe.
Around 1118, a French knight named Hugues de Payens founded a military order known as the Knights Templar nd pledged to protect Christian visitors to Jerusalem.
Saladin is the Western namethe Muslim sultan of Egypt and Syria who famously defeated a massive army of Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin and captured the city of Jerusalem in 1187.
