Causes And Effects Of The Crusades

The crusades had a negative impact. The crusades was a series of religious wars between the christians and muslims. It started in 1096- 1099 and was caused from muslims because the muslims wanted to take control of jerusalem or they wanted jerusalem back.This caused many buildings to be destroyed and many of people's lives.

Did the crusades have a negative or positive effect. In 1095 pope urban the 2nd called the first crusade which was the start of something that would have an Positive effect on the Eastern empire and christianity. In 1905 the byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus asked the Eastern empire for help after being threatened by seljuk turks and to aid the eastern empire pope urban called the first crusade so that they could fight back against the muslims with the Eastern empire and take back the holy lands. This crusade would lead to three more which would have a positive effect on christianity and the Eastern and Byzantine empires. Some positive effects were they found new food this also the crusaders conquered more land for the Eastern empire and found new clothing/material. The results crusades had many positive effects on the Eastern and Byzantine empire. One of which was that many more merchants were supporting them or selling to them and they also discovered new foods from the east. These two things helped the empire by allowing them to find new things through trade which ws increased because of the crusades because the crusaders would need more food and equipment. Document 2 states that “merchants in Venice and other northern Italian cities built large fleets to carry crusaders to the holy lands.” “They later used those fleets to open new markets in crusader states.” This shows that the merchants helped the crusaders and then they opened shops where the crusaders were so that

The Crusades of the High Middle Ages (a.d. 1050-1300) was a period of conquest or rather, reconquest, of Christian lands taken from Muslims in the early Middle Ages. It is an era romanticized by fervent Christians as the time when Christianity secured its honorable status as the true religion of the world. The affect of the Crusades is still with us today. It sailed from Spain and Portugal to the Americas in the fifthteenth century aboard sailing ships carrying conquistadors who sought new territory and rich resources. They used the shield and sword of Christianity to justify a swift conquest of mass territory and the subjugation of the indigenous peoples; a mentality learned, indeed,

The Crusades was a very important moment in human history, it showed the clashes between religions for land that most people considered to be sacred or holy. There isn’t one Crusade but rather a series of them, but we’ll be looking primarily at the First Crusade, Second Crusade, Third Crusade, and a little bit of the Fourth. It all starts in Rome (Nov 27th 1095) where Pope Urban the Second receives an important message from Byzantine Emperor Alexios the First where he pleads for help in supressing the Turkish troops. After receiving the message the Pope (standing in a field outside the city of Clermont) calls for the public to join the military excursion to the Middle East, and swiftly declares a Crusade with the primary objective of securing holy sites [Jaspert, Nikolas. The Crusades]. What followed was a large migration of troops from France and Italy on August and September of 1096. The

The Crusades was a horrific time. Many people had lost their lives, friends, even family. The Crusades were a battle over the holy land, Jerusalem. The Crusaders, people who had fought in the Crusades, were Christians. They wanted the holy land because they believe that’s where Jesus had died and rose. They had fought against the Muslims who were defending themselves against the Crusaders. The Crusades had its positive outcomes as well as its negative results. Some may wonder, were the results of the Crusades more Positive or Negative? I strongly believe the outcome was mostly negative mainly because the Crusaders didn’t win the holy land, lots of lands were destroyed, and so many people lost their lives in the battle of the Crusades.

According to an article published in 2009, it is believed that there were a numerous effects of crusades:

One reason why the Crusades were more negative than positive was because they worsen their own relationship with the Jews and Muslims, or religious hatred, even tho they were bad anyways. Document 5 states that ”First, the long struggle between Islam and Christendom and the example of persecution set by Christian kings and prelates (bishops) left an inheritance of deep bitterness; relations between Muslims and their Christian and Jewish subjects worsened.” (description of some of the effects of the Crusades).This is (important/interesting/relevant) because even if the Christian and Muslims relationship was bad already the Crusades made it worse by the bitterness left and even the Jews now are in it because when the Crusades lost, they took their fury against the Jews and would slaughter and destroy their cities even though the lost against the Muslims. Document 10 states that “...which one of the Franks

One negative result of the Crusades was the bitter relationship between the Christians and the Muslims. Document 5 states that “...the example of persecution set by Christian kings and prelates (bishops) left an inheritance of deep bitterness” (unknown source Document 5). This is important because the religious persecution between

The Crusade influenced the Middle ages in many ways, such as: adding to the Church’s control over Europe and their wealth, increased the Pope’s, or papacy’s, power, caused men and supplies to be requested frequently which resulted in many deaths (both muslim and christian), knights and barons sold their manor and lands or died which caused feudalism to become rocky in Europe, brought about the code of chivalry, people developed new ideas and began to grow smarter in what is called the “Age of Learning,” led to the discovery of new countries in the undiscovered areas of Asia, and commerce and trade grew due to the necessities that the Crusaders asked for.

Going against modern day religious beliefs, in 1095AD the Christians went to war to claim the holy city of Jerusalem, massacring the Muslims in a bloody attempt to worship their God. Pope Urban II’s speech at Clermont inspired by claims made by the Byzantium Emperor encouraged the Christians to partake in the First Crusade in an attempt to liberate Jerusalem. The religious and economic factors were the most relevant to cause this crusade, with some influence from desired political gain and little from social factors unrelated to religion. The immediate consequences were positive for the Christians and negative for the Muslims, but the First Crusade launched an ongoing conflict between the Christians and Muslims which had positive and negative consequences for both sides. There are a number of relevant modern sources which examine the causes and consequences of the First Crusade, but, while there are many medieval sources, they do not explicitly discuss the causes and consequences of the war. In order to fully comprehend the First Crusade, it is necessary to analyse the religious, economic, and political factors, as well as the short-term, long-term, and modern consequences.

The Crusades were an important part of history, and it had a major impact to the people and the Church. There were a total of nine crusades, but only a few were successful. The Church asked helped from people, and succeeded in influencing them to join by telling them how their sins would be removed. Many people believed in the Pope and the Church at first, but after many Crusades it was later questioned. The Crusades started by the Church to capture The Holy Land was caused primarily by religious devotion and not by political and economic gains.

The crusades is a very important historical event that has impacted western civilization in many ways. Religion and economy were big influences in the crusades because the Pope promised wealth to those who went and fought in the crusades and because the Pope promised that anyone who fought in the crusades would be forgiven of all their sins. But those reasons are not the most important reason why the crusades happened. The most significant reason is area because Europe was too crowded and because the land they were fighting for was holy.

Three of the world’s most powerful religions had gone to war during the Crusades, the same war that is responsible for an estimated 1.7 million deaths. The Crusades were a series of Christian military expeditions that lasted through nine Holy Wars. The first crusade, in 1095, was called upon by Pope Urban II in an attempt to stop the Muslim expansion to the Holy City of Jerusalem. Through this, the Christian, Catholic, and Muslim churches will go into a time of warfare as an attempt to both show their religious superiority and have a religious expansion. The western side of Europe was the most significantly impacted by the Crusades because of the 4th Crusade, the foreign influence from the East, and Europe’s economic relations with the world.

The Crusades were a series of religious that were wars fought between Christians and Muslims over control of the Holy Land. The majority of them took place between 1095 and 1291, but that's only because their was big wars and small fight. Some of the big wars were thing that were fought over such as land or anything they could own/rule. The Holy Land was and still is a place that is very important for the two major monotheistic - Judaism and Christianity. Adding on wars are not a good thing, that's why I think the Crusades were negative.

The effect of the Crusades on both religions was immense. After the Crusades, many more battles between Christians and Muslims were commenced. An article from the Western Reserve Public Media says, “the fight against the Muslim people was not over, so many groups formed to continue and support the battle.” Soon after the victory of the First Crusade, the Holy city was once again snatched away from the Christians. This led to many more crusades which were formed by these other groups. In the end, there was a total of nine crusades. As Housley wrote, “...the effect of the crusades on Christian-Muslim relations was profoundly destructive. Recent research and writing have emphasized just how negative that effect was on both sides of the religious divide.” Just like this quote so clearly states, the multiple crusades against Muslims greatly impacted the relationship between these two Abrahamic religions. If these crusades never occurred, there wouldn’t be as much religious turmoil. The crusades majorly affected the once rather healthy relationship they once shared. In 1618, Francisco Pelsaert, a Dutch, Christian merchant, traveled to Agra, India for seven years. In 1626, he published his report on his experience, some of which was about the Muslim race. He wrote, “Because of this decay, we are cursed not only by the Portuguese, but by the Hindus and