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Page 1Page 2 Ibn al-Athir's Account: The population was put to the sword by the Franks, who pillaged the area for a week. A band of Muslims barricaded themselves into the Oratory of Savid [Tower of David] and fought on for several days. They were granted their lives in return for surrendering. The Franks honored their word, and the group left by night for Ascalon [a city on the coast]. In the Masjid al-Aqsa [the Temple of Solomon] the Franks slaughtered more than 70,000 people, among them a large number of Imams and Muslim scholars, devout and ascetic men who had left their homelands to live lives of pious seclusion in the Holy Place. What events do both of these accounts describe? Check all that apply. the defenders who took refuge in the Tower of David. the execution of women and children the length of time of the battle the pillaging at the Dome of the Rock the conflict at the Temple of Solomon

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the first and the last

"the defenders who took refuge in the Tower of David." And "the conflict at the Temple of Solomon"

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