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Show 2 the devastation hard-hit Persia, to certain parts and hegemony. In South surrendered voluntarily even trade, and culture. to the ar.eas us areas Both the eleventh century and the invasion of invaders were as was and children were that vtin the as was and and bridle reins. blood. H Yet he Ha and recovery, became centers Saljuq Khurasan of industry, equally horrible a a century later by the Mongols, yet • e The justified these the city to the slaughter in which women Raymond of Agiles relates porch of Solomon • and conquest of Iran in the those of the mercilessly massacred. Temple con- criminals and heralds of de- as followed by knees being atrocious seldom condemned first crusaders as intact and Moreover, the fall of Jerusalem in 1099 A. D. struction. 5 there their to and cities which that most conquests have been indiscriminately devastating. were left were again once towns limited 4 History tells Oghuz of Ba1kh the invaders In the looted these was the towns which refused to submit Persia, for example, tinued to flourish. before long to wrought by the Mongols men waS rode in blood up to their filled with corpses and cruel acts committed by the crusaders splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled 4Bernald Lewis, Islam in History: Ideas, Men and Events in (London. Alcove Press, 1973),' p, 183. See also H. Barthold, Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion, with an additional chapter hitherto unpublished in English translated by Mrs. T. Minor sky and edited by C. E. Bosworth, and with further addenda and cor (3rd edt London I Printed for the Trustees rigenda by C. E. Bosworth. of the "E. J. W. Gibb Memorial" and Published by Messrs. Luzac and Co., 1968), p. 490. the Middle East 5 Quoted in A. C. Krey, The First Crusade (Princeton,' PrinceUniversity l'ress, 1912), p. 261. Also cited by J. L. La Monte, The World of_the Middle Ages (New York, Appleton, 1949), p. 342. ton |
