Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cy in the Mohammedan world fell to the Seljuk Turks,a new Tartar people from beyond the Jaxartes. The Turkswere to play somewhat the same part in the Saracenic worldthat the Teutons had played in the old Roman world,—with thistremendous difference, that even to the present day they havenot assimilated civilization. The Saracenic culture survivedlong enough to be transplanted into Europe during the cru-sades, but in its own home it was doomed to swift decay. The Turks were at least mighty soldiers, and they began anew era of Mohammedan conquest. Almost at once the greaterpart of the Greek Empire fell into their hands. They overranAsia Minor, and established a number of principalities there, —one of them, called the Empire of Rouni (Rome), with itscapital at ISTicea, only seventy miles from Constantinople. Interror, the Greek Emperor turned to Western Christendom foraid ; and his appeal was the signal for two centuries of war,cross against crescent. i Ancient History, §§ 581, 624.
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§92) CAUSES OE THE CRUSADES. 103 II. THE CRUSADES.The West takes the Offensive against the East. The point upon which the Middle Ages turned from the darkness anddisorder of the earlier times to the greater light and order of modern times.— George Burton Adams. A lamentable tale of divided counsels, of incredible ignorance, of heroicbravery, and of frightful sacrifice. — Emerton. A. Character and Causes. 92. Place in History. — In the ninth century, Europe for awhile had seemed defenseless against plundering bands ofNorse or Saracen raiders, but now — so strong had it grownunder the military system of feudalism — for two hundredyears it poured a ceaseless stream of mailed knights into Asia.From about 1100 to about 1300, there was fighting betweenChristian and Mohammedan in the East, and during all thistime bands of nobles from various parts of Europe kept goingoff to join the war. At times, it is true, there were particularlyimpressive movements of mighty armies into Asia,

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