Christians Negative Effect Of The Crusades

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 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.

The mentality was that Christian crusaders were to Islam/Judaism at any costs. It doesn’t matter even if it was achieved through violence or war. During the course of the crusades, the death toll was high for Christians and Muslims. In few crusades, innocent people including women were raped and slaughtered. These victories lead to conquering kingdoms for Christianity but they were all unsustainable especially in the middle east.

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

The Crusades had a huge impact on future relationships between Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Document 1 states that “[The Crusades] also left a bitter legacy of religious hatred behind them. In the Middle East, both Christians and Muslims committed appalling atrocities in the

Examples that the Crusades were more negative are going to be stated in the following reasons.Document 1 states that “ In the middle east,both Christians and Muslims committed appalling atrocities in name of religion.”Also in Europe the crusaders sometimes turned their madness towards the Jews and massacring entire communities.This is because important because it shows that the crusades was

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 crusades were multiple religious wars between the muslims and the christians. The wars were very violent and they also destroyed and ruined many things. Were the results of the crusades more positive or negative.The crusades fought violent, bloody wars that were against that christians and the muslims. Document 1 states that the crusades were bitter because of the hatred to certain religions .This is (important) because the main part of the crusades was that they all started to take back jerusalem and they were also very racist. Document 7 states that crusade kingdoms were hard to manage because the crusading knights would abuse and commit other atrocities on other christians.This is relevant because they were hard to maintain because

In Europe the crusades sometimes turned their fury against Jews,murdered the entire community.This is important because it shows how they would take their anger out.They had also left a bitter legacy of religious hatred behind them both Muslims and Christians had committed awful horror in their name of religion.

Document 1 states that “...both Christian and Muslims committed appalling atrocities in the name of religion...crusaders sometimes turned their fury against Jews, massacring entire communities.”This is (important/interesting/relevant) No side are innocent bystanders as both Muslims and Christians created appalling crimes. With the example given that the Crusaders murdered Jews for the reason of anger as hate flew towards them from all sides of the battlefield.

However, this didn’t mean that they were merciful, for example one Jew was captured and led to a church where the crusaders tied a rope around his neck and there they said “You can still be saved; will you change your faith?” When he didn’t cooperate, they cut off his neck. The Crusaders were so brutal that they were thought to be just as guilty to God then other religions. For example an abbot of Cluny wrote during the second crusade, “What is the good of going to the end of the world at great loss of men and money to fight the Saracens, when we permit among us other infidels who are a thousand times more guilty towards Christ than the Mohammedans?” He describes here how the Mohammedans were a lot less guilty towards Christ then the Christians who were in the Crusades themselves for killing innocent

The Jews that fled were quickly captured and were either forcibly baptised or murdered (“Jews and the Crusades”). These attacks resulted in a bitter relationship between Christians and Jews for hundreds of years for unnecessary persecution and killing. This shows that the Crusades were a turning point because it ruined relationships that affected their interactions for hundreds of years. A third effect of the crusades was the influx of many new ideas into the European culture from Muslim culture.

Modern society can learn many things from the Crusades. The first thing is that history repeats itself. If we’d listen to what it says it tells us what to do differently so we won’t make the same

Rich in delightful episodes and dramatic events, spread over two centuries and three continents, the Crusades were one of the fascinating events of Muslim-Christian encounters. The Crusades constitute a series of almost two-century-long military campaigns (1095-1291) conducted by the Christians of Western Europe against the Muslims in the land of Palestine and the eastern Mediterranean coastal strip. The Christian aim was to wrest the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Muslims. Annoyed, angered, frightened, and disgusted by the presence of uninvited aliens in the midst of their cultures, the Muslim response to the Crusades was initially one of intermittent, unorganised, and disrupted by a preoccupation with internal problems. Later Muslims, however,

The seperation of Islam from Christianity came about with rejection from the prophet Muhammad. Events such as the Crusades have left both sides bitter and angry. Christianity views Muhammad as a fraud, and Jesus as a deity, whereas Islam believes Jesus was a prophet, just as Muhammad. Many places, including Europe and the United states that are primarily Catholic or Christian in some way, fear Muslims due to terrorist attacks and centuries-old violence from the Ottoman Empire. “In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a talk in Regensburg, Germany, in which he quoted derogatory remarks about Islam made by a Byzantine emperor in the 15th century. Muslims were deeply offended by the apparent insult to their religion and their Prophet Muhammad, and again