Causes Of The Crusades

“With the dawn of the 16th century, there came together in Europe both the motivation and the means to explore territory across the seas.” During the sixteenth century, Spain found success in conquering American lands thanks to prior interest in exploration fueled by religion, trade, and technology. With their recent success against the Moors in a religious battle, both Ferdinand and Isabella were ready to explore new lands in which they could plant the seeds of a new religion. The desire of trade items that could only be found in Asia also gave them motivation to find a new, quicker root the Far East. But, all of these feats would not have been possible if it were not for the invention of new technologies, such as the compass and astrolabe, helping explorers find their way around the world.

The European conquest of America began as an offshoot of the quest for a sea route to India, China, and the islands of the East Indies, the source of the silk, tea, spices, porcelain, and other luxury goods on which international trade in the early modern era centered. Profit and piety-the desire to eliminate Islamic middlemen and win control of the lucrative trade for Christian Western Europe-combined to inspire the quest for a direct route to Asia. Long before Columbus sailed, Europeans had dreamed of a land of abundance, riches, and ease beyond the western horizon. They hoped America would bring them a

The discovery of America is all because of the indirect effect from the Crusades. The sacking of Constantinople (1204), which was a result from the Fouth Crusade, resulted in the fatal weakening of the Byzantine Empire from the capture and pillage of the Christian bastion. In order to give the Europeans incentive and desire to go exploring, the Crusades helped weaken the Byzantine Empire, who's eventual collapse made access to Asian spices more difficult. Because of this obstruction, this therefore motivated Europeans to find other ways to get to Asia. This pursuit and search of such trade routes lead to the “discovery” of the New World by Columbus. With the disintegration of the Silk Road as well as the fall of the Byzantium to the Otttoman Turks and the collapse of the Mongol Empire to the East, Europe’s access to China and the far East was hopelessly lost.Another indirect impact of the discovery of America is knowledge advancement. As a consequence of the crusader contact with Islamic civilizations of the Middle East, Europeans of the Dark Age were again introduced to cultural, scientific and mathematical advances. With access blocked to products such as spices and fine

The Europeans were originally unaware that the Americas even existed. Explorers had accidentally landed on North America centuries before the discovery of the New World. Christian Crusaders played an important role in the indirect discovery; they wanted to have the goods that they had no previous knowledge of.

Meaning, they were free to travel anywhere to trade and not limited to Italy. Religion was a major cause of the Crusades because the Holy Roman Empire wanted to conquer the muslim religion and bring back Christianity. Western Europe was centered on Christianity because it united their culture for the better.

The Age of Exploration spread many ideas and knowledge through cultural diffusion to new lands. With the discovery of the Americas, new lands were conquered and religions like Christianity found new followers. While there are many positive aspects of the Age of Exploration, it was a bad thing for others. In the sixteenth century the Europeans had a positive or negative effect on Europe, Africa and the Americas The Europeans affected European culture in an unsurprisingly good way. As depicted in Doc 8, while they did lose half of their ships they came back with a huge profit in spices.

In the Americas the exchange went in every direction. The Europeans came to the New World for three reasons, gold, God, and glory. The Europeans used the exploration of the New World to spread Christianity.

The discovery of the Americas greatly impacts the European countries as people, like the Spaniards and the Portuguese, began to expand their power and settlement there. A long time ago, around the time when America was discovered, Europe was going through a great religious change. There were lots of disputes in Europe about the Roman Catholic Church and its teachings. One german monk, Martin Luther, did not believed in the teachings and rituals of the Catholic Church. He did not believed that good work will earn salvation or grace like the church did. He was angry when the church purchased indulgences, meaning that individuals could use money to reduce their time in purgatory. Luther believed that only your own inward faith in God can earn

While the Chinese had been traveling as far as Arabia and Africa since 618 AD, the Crusades influenced nations such as Spain to explore new travel. The Spanish had become inspired to discover new trade routes, as well as overtake land,

Mediterranean trade between the Middle East and Europe in the 12th through 14th centuries was regulated predominately by Venice, which from thereon made huge profits by trading with buyer-distributors from north and western Europe (Sluglett). No European ruler or power was capable of breaking the hold Venice held on Mediterranean trade. That, combined with the fact that navigational equipment was well developed and long distance sailing became possible, was the start of the Age of Exploration. Near the end of the 15th century, European expeditions began where explorers were sent abroad by ship in search of new ways to reach the spice regions without having to pay taxes imposed like powers such as the Venetians or Ottoman Turks. The fierce competition between exploring nations provoked conflicts over control of the spice trade and countless expeditions of varying successes, today known as the Age of Exploration. There were many voyages that missed their targets, but several of them ended up discovering new lands and new treasures. In 1492, Christopher Columbus, funded by Queen Isabella, sailed for Spain. He had aimed to find a sea route to India and its spice regions, but instead famously “discovered” the Americas: truly only making their existence known to the rest of the world. Columbus brought back to Spain fruits and vegetables among other things that originated in the Americas. This, today known as the Columbian Exchange, would go on to transform the agriculture and diet of the rest of the world in a way that dramatically increased populations, yet would cause the opposite in the Americas, when foreigners would eventually expose the natives to diseases they were not equipped to fight off. Not long after Columbus, in 1497, John Cabot sailed for England and also failed find the spice islands. However, that same year, Portugal became the first country to

The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Muslims and Christians for Jerusalem, the Holy Land. These wars started when the Byzantine Emperor wanted to regain Jerusalem and Constantinople and to accomplish this, he allied with the Count of Flanders. There was a total of nine Crusades, but not all of them were battles. In 1212, somewhere between the fourth and fifth crusades there was a peasant revolt. This revolt was presumably spurred by the many failed crusades in the previous years as well as the desire to regain the Holy Land. Incredibly, this revolt was made up of thousands of children.

European exploration wasn’t only entirely based of one motivation in the 15th and 16th century. Although many voyages of discovery were started in search of wealth, religion was also a big reason for exploring other continents. Religion wasn’t the main motivation for European exploration in the 15th and 16th century. Instead, the main motivation was economic motives, which was closely followed by religion, and to a lesser extent was technological developments.

The Crusades were a very important part of history. It has been said that The Crusades are what started the beginning of modernization. Not only were they what started the beginning of modernization, they also had many impacts on Europe. The four major areas of impact on Europe were in the Economic, Political, Social, and Religious parts. Though all the areas were impacted, not all were good impacts.

Religion is a cornerstone of human civilization; religious tendencies have governed civilized peoples for their entire existence. What began as a mystic connection between humans and the natural world evolved into various religions with distinct rules and beliefs. The ever-increasing differences between different religious sects became significant sources of conflict throughout the ages, but none as deadly or sinful as the Crusades. The Crusades, fought between the Catholics and Muslims beginning in the eleventh century, were a series of wars over the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Although many argue that the death and destruction caused by the Crusades was justified due to its religious basis, objectively analyzing the Crusades, their origins, and their effect on societies, reveals that this series of wars provided a display of unnecessary, sinful slaughter.

Since the beginning of mankind, there have been a countless number of wars that took place. When we look around world today, it drives us to think whether circumstances were always the same. Was Religion the sole purpose why blood was shed, or was it the materialistic mentality to gain land, wealth, and control trade? When you study closely you come to learn about one of the most intense wars that took place between the eleventh and thirteenth century. It started in 1095 when the Seljuk Turks were migrating into the city of Anatolia and its Emperor Alexios I requested for help. Pope Urban II, who answered the call and launched the first crusade. The Crusades were a series of wars the Catholic Church launched mainly against the Muslims, as well as some Jewish and Christian communities who had theological differences. The idea that if you died in the war you would be forgiven for all your sins and ascension to heaven would occur was endorsed by Peter the Hermit. In 1099, knights and peasants were deployed to the holy land. They successfully conquered Jerusalem in 1099 nad kept massacring its inhabitants. In 1187, Muslims under the leadership of Saladin took the holy city back. The leaders of Christendom made more efforts to recapture the city but they were unsuccessful. There are many factors as to why Christians failed to take control of Jerusalem again. Disunity amongst the European monarchs and different conflicts of interest were a major reason to why Jerusalem was never