13) Although crusading continued throughout the 14th century, the ______ Crusade is the last one we’ll focus on, because it was the Crazy One. The Venetians built ______ ships, but then only 11,000 Crusaders actually made it down to Venice, and there wasn’t enough money to pay for those boats, so the Venetians made the Crusaders a deal: Help us capture the rebellious city of Zara, and we’ll ferry you to Anatolia. This was a smidge problematic, Crusading-wise, because Zara was a Christian city, but the Crusaders agreed to help, resulting in the Pope ___________________ both them and the Venetians.
14)  Later the excommunicated Crusaders fought for the _______________ emperor who failed to pay them so the Crusaders decided to __________ the Byzantine Empire…but never reclaimed any of the Holy Land. The fourth crusade pretty much doomed the Byzantine Empire, which never really recovered. Constantinople, a shadow of its former self, was conquered by the _________ in 1453.
15)  So ultimately the Crusades were a total failure at establishing Christian kingdoms in the Holy Land long term. And with the coming of the ____________, the region remained solidly Muslim, as it is (mostly) is today.