
The Crusades
Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World
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The Pilgrimage of Jerusalem
The prize was a little scallop shell that you would wear on your clothing, like a mark, a badge of honor. Constantine in 312 decides that God, the God Jesus, the Son of God had given him a great victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge and he begins to favor Christianity. And so they do that in the 320s and the 330s and they build a church, a domed church, a Romanesque church or Basilica called the Anastasis right there. The building that Constantine puts up in the 330s stands for nearly 700 years until it's burned down in a fire in the year 1009 on orders from a caliph named Ha
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