Christian Knights And Feudalism

The Crusades also changed the role of the Catholic church. During the Crusades, the Byzantine emperor asked the Catholic church to help with the ridding of the Turkish Muslims since they had taken over Jerusalem. The Catholic Church supported the Crusades and tried to convert everyone to Christianity; those who disagreed were killed. This caused the Catholic Church to gain power and become very wealthy which resulted in more people converting over. One of the lasting impacts was on the relationship between the Greek and Latin churches. The Crusades put an end to any sense of reconciliation between the East and the West. Europe was no longer a central identifying force.

There were economic gains and losses. The economic strain of joining the Crusades was draining. Soldiers were expected to finance their journey to the Holy Land, which was difficult even after they had sold their land and personal goods. The Church gave them little money and they took on the majority of the

The Renaissance was a period of rebirth in art and culture after the Middle Ages. The Crusades helped Medieval Europe to flourish and grow out of the Dark Ages. The Crusades affected daily life and caused major effects in political, economical and cultural Medieval Europe. The first Crusade was gaining control over the Holy Land, but the later Crusades were fights over regaining land. The Byzantine Empire fell during the fourth Crusade after an attack on their capital, Constantinople, took place. Trade routes opened through Europe because of traveling between crusading states, and ideas, goods, and traditions were passed around. The Crusades caused a struggle for power between crusading states, destroyed empires, improved trade that

Central authority became non-existent in the Carolingian world, opening up travelers who were Muslim, Magyar, and Viking. This made a new type of relationship between free individuals. Lords and vassals came up with feudalism; it was never a consistent structure. The lords would give land to their vassals in return for the vassals promise to fight. Most of the army had been foot soldiers until the Asians introduced the stirrup, and with that; knights were born and they used coats of mail and lances. This was costly and lengthy because the men had to train. Lords also had to give land to all of the vassal’s family, making land the most excellent gift a lord could grant to his vassal. The pieces of land the lords gave out were called fiefs.

The crusade is a religious fight between Jewish, Islam and Christianity. It is also a war against Muslim and to recapture Jerusalem from Muslim in order for Christianity to live there. It is a fight that last for 196 years. After the Crusade end, there is still many consequence, impact and effect on all three religion, from military to economic. The effect can be minor or major, bad or good.

In the Medieval times, the Roman Catholic Church played a great role in the development of England and had much more power than the Church of today does. In Medieval England, the Roman Catholic Church dominated everyday life and controlled everyone whether it is knights, peasants or kings. The Church was one of the most influential institutions in all of Medieval England and played a large role in education and religion. The Church's power was so great that they could order and control knights and sends them to battle whenever they wished to. The Church also had the power to influence the decision of Kings and could stop or pass laws which benefited them in the long run, adding to this, the Church had most of the wealth in Europe as the

The societal mindset that was prevalent in medieval Europe, feudalism, phased out due to the bubonic plague and the religious beliefs of the people.

Since warfare and disease made life unbearable, everyone from the common serfs to the prosperous king looked to Church for direction on the key to a happy afterlife (Document 9). People paid heavy taxes/gifts and devotion to guaranteed themselves in themselves a place in the Church since their births (Document 9). This showed how they had much power over all the other classes in medieval society, especially when the Truce of God was proclaimed to control knights from committing felonies on holy days (Document 4 and

The Church was the absolute most predominant foundation in medieval life, its impact invading practically every part of individuals’ lives. Its religious observances often shape to the plan; its customs checked every minute in a person 's life; and its lessons supported standard convictions about morals, the significance of life and existence. Church in Western Europe was recognized as the Roman Catholic Church went from the religion of the Roman Empire to the official religion and the most powerful institution of the Middle Ages. All of Europe had been converted to Christianity by the year 1000. Although this process was peaceful at times but other times it got downright ugly.

The Crusades were a series of defensive wars fought by European Christians against Muslims for control of the holy lands. Christians violently and ruthlessly persecuted and destroyed Jews and Muslims on their way to the holy land leaving Christians with a tyrannous reputation among these people. Before the Crusades Europe was in the Dark Ages, there was little education and very few people could read and educate themselves. Also, the Christian church had all the power. Pope Urban II called Christians to fight in the Crusades and to defend the holy land which they believed belonged to them. A new middle class was also created, middle class citizens made their profit from buying and selling property and collecting interest on loans. The Crusades led to a huge expansion of the European world. Peasants and serfs

The Catholic Church significantly gained more popularity, power, authority, wealth and influence of people. The Catholic Church even limited the power of the king because of their great authority (Tate. G, 2015). Catholics lives changed as they were influenced to practice church practices more frequently and pay compulsory tithes which resulted the wealth of many Catholics to decrease (Phillips, J, 2015). Many people's daily jobs were even administered by Church officials. Furthermore, Catholics learnt numerous new skills and information from Eastern countries as a result of continually travelling to the Holy Land (Abels D. R, 2009). Catholics grew stronger in the medicine field, technology, hygiene, trading, language, mathematics and building structures. People also brought back new clothing materials, divese cultures and new spiritual views to Europe (Clark. A, 2015). Unfortunately over 35 000 Catholic's lives were destroyed as a consequence of the first Crusade. This caused thousands of Catholic women to have to independently look after their properties, wealth, land, taxes and children due to the abandonment of their husbands (Parrish, D.M, 2007). Additionally, the Crusades resulted the formation of the middle class in the social structure which caused serfdom to decline. Many wealthy Catholic peasants and serfs moved into the middle class to have a better life as they were

The Muslim and Jewish people began to weaken in strength because the Spanish shut them out of their kingdom due to thinking they where infidels. The catholic church grew in wealth making it a known church today and keeping it around for a while. The Banking system was made to transfer funds to troops for them to be able to send money to their families and have money to support them self. After the fourth crusades their was an increase in trade with Asia and Europe. Along with millions of deaths of the soldiers that participated in the crusades witch caused moral to fall in Europe and in the families that participated in the

Around the A.D. 400s the Roman Catholic Church fell which caused it to split into the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. They believed that the only to avoid going to hell was to believe in God and his teachings. Then came the Holy Roman Empire, which came from the union of many Germanic states. There was many conflicts between the church and the monarchs. For example the pope claimed the right to remove kings, while the kings refused to obey the Church’s harsh penalties for them. The pope could excommunicate someone, which means the person could not receive the sacraments. This happened during the rule of Henry IV and there was a major dispute between him and Pope Gregory VII. During his excommunication, Henry IV begged for forgiveness in 1077 in the Alps. The Crusades had a major impact on the Middle Ages. The Crusades were in November 1095 in Clermont, France where Pope Urban II made a volunteer army to go to Palestine and take Jerusalem and Palestine from the Seljuks. In 1099 they finally reached Jerusalem and fought for two hundred years. During this time, monarchs raised armies, which made them grow stronger and it helped to break down feudalism. Most importantly, the Crusades helped to strengthen contacts between Europe and caused them to become more sophisticated and learned many new

Prior to the deterioration of Europe’s stability, its “Economy was centered around manorial estates, but the onset of the crusades marked the decline of feudalism” (Clark). The downfalls of feudalism and the Byzantine Empire were two of the most significant political impacts of the Crusades. Not only was feudalism a political system, but it was also a social and economic hierarchy. Feudalism strictly stratified the common people from the nobles and wealthy merchants. In this system of government, a majority of the power lies in the hands of the king. And despite his supreme position, the king resides below the Pope in the feudal hierarchy. Some of the original Crusades endeavored to secure the Pope’s position by appointing a supportive ruler