Why did the crusader states collapse in 1187?

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Why did the Crusader states collapse in 1187?
- Frankish mistrust/ internal rivalries
  - Leper King= increase factions
  - change of Regency
    - factional pressure
    - Leper King= increase factions
  - Guys shadowing technique = good
    - factions bad
    - Sybil to Guy= lack of man power
  - Raymond tries to start civil war
    - Guy mistrust
  - 1187 tempt Saladin
    - bad advice to Guy at Hattin
- Feudal structure of Outramer
  - no king could control factions
  - Reynald Vs pilgrims
    - tempts Saladin
  - Bohemond III
    - Harim
    - no troops at Hattin
  - Cresson 1187
    - no manpower
      - 10% lost
  - Hospitallers- Bilbais 1168
    - massacre
    - lose Egypt
  - Templars
    - Ascalon 1153
      - loss of manpower
    - 1173- kill assassins
- Long term geographical weakness
  - Isolated
  - desert= no defense
  - surrounded by Muslims- unite
    - doomed?
  - Anatolia
    - Conrad
      - coast route= fail
    - Loiuis
      - inland= fail
  - Jerusalem= buffer zone of Muslim world
    - play on Sunni Shi'ite split
- Actions of King Guy
  - Strategy @ Hattin
    - 1183- shadowing :)
  - fail to control...
    - Reynald
    - Templars
  - remarries Sybil
    - upset Raymond
- Rise of Muslim strength and unity
  - manpower
    - Jihad rhetoric
    - Saladin united Muslim world
    - Medina's walls
      - pious
    - encircled Outramer
      - Egypt
      - Damascus
      - Aleppo
      - Kerack
      - Mosul
  - wealth of Egypt and Franks loss
    - Egypt has wealth
    - fertile land
    - money to pay followers
  - treaty with Manuel
- Lack of help from West and Byzantium
  - Byzantine
    - help Amalric
    - doesn't ally with Baldwin VI
    - ally Saladin
  - Baldwin VI
    - no power from West
      - lepracy
    - 1180 Pope Alexius
      - crusade
        lepracy
    - God's judgement
      - lepracy
        no one goes
    - 1183- Pope Lucius II
      - crusade
      - no one cares
lack of land
- Long term geographical weakness
  - Isolated
  - desert= no defense
  - surrounded by Muslims- unite
    - doomed?
  - Anatolia
    - Conrad
      - coast route= fail
    - Loiuis
      - inland= fail
  - Jerusalem= buffer zone of Muslim world
    - play on Sunni Shi'ite split
- no appeal to knights

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Report Tue 10th December, 2013 @ 17:01

This is a very detailed mindmap that covers the key reasons for the collapse of the crusader states, with extra branches that provide supporting evidence. A great way to revise this as a potential essay question.

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Report Tue 17th January, 2017 @ 20:38

This is whack, worst mind-map i've ever seen. Who teaches this?

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