Kingdom of Heaven

The Middle East has been a continuing source of rich history since the early times. widely chronicled events in its history were the Crusades in which the Kingdom of Heaven was based.The story deals with the Crusades of the 12th century, and involves an artificer (a military artificer French artificier) and Engineer (that is, someone who makes siege engines), serving as a village blacksmith who goes on to incite the city of Jerusalem in its defense against the great Islamic leader Saladin, who battles to reclaim the city from the Christians. The hired man 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 burning the church of the Holy Sepulchre by a Fatimid caliph, and the molestation of pilgrims, cruelty of Muslims toward Christians, and following the papal foreign insurance policy of expanding Christianity were religious sources of conflict why the Crusades were undertaken.One of the economical concerns was the overpopulation of Western atomic number 63, consequently having the idea that Eastern atomic number 63 would be a new territory to conquer and would provide the necessary resources to provide for Western Europes burgeoning population, and politically, the Crusades would pave the way for wider trade.It would seem that the differences of faith is still one source of conflict today, considering the occurrence alone that Jerusalem is the central land of worship of divers(prenominal) 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 know how to share as neighbors. Conflict arises.The oil-rich Middle East today provides for a background knowledge of political and economical maneuverings by different countries, with vested interests of their own, to gain co ntrol of this rich region.The phrase History repeats itself is justified. interviewwww.wikipedia.org, 2006 webpagehttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven_%282005_film%29date accessed 16 December 2006