Kingdom of Heaven

The Middle East has been a continuing source of racy history since the early times. Widely chronicled events in its history were the Crusades in which the commonwealth of Heaven was establish.The story deals with the Crusades of the 12th century, and involves an artificer (a military mechanic cut artificier) and Engineer (that is, someone who makes siege engines), serving as a resolution blacksmith who goes on to aid the city of Jerusalem in its defense against the large(p) Islamic leader Saladin, who battles to re conduct the city from the Christians. The script is loosely based on the life of Balian of Ibelin (wikipedia.org, 2006)How the Crusades started were caused by religious, economical and political reasons. The order glowing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by a Fatimid caliph, and the molestation of pilgrims, ruthlessness of Muslims toward Christians, and following the papal foreign policy of expanding Christianity were religious sources of conflict wherefore the Crus ades were undertaken.One of the economical concerns was the overpopulation of Western atomic number 63, consequently having the idea that Eastern Europe would be a new territory to conquer and would provide the incumbent resources to provide for Western Europes burgeoning population, and politically, the Crusades would pave the way for wider trade.It would expect that the differences of faith is still one source of conflict today, considering the fact merely that Jerusalem is the central land of worship of different great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, as of the present time. These different religions with different beliefs, different perspectives, try to assert the claim that Jerusalem, by right, is there own Holy land. They do not retire how to share as neighbors. Conflict arises.The oil-rich Middle East today provides for a backdrop of political and economical maneuverings by different countries, with vested interests of their own, to gain mastery of this rich r egion.The phrase History repeats itself is justified.Referencewww.wikipedia.org, 2006 webpagehttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven_%282005_film%29date accessed 16 December 2006