Did The Crusaders Have A Positive Or Negative Effects On The World

Document _6___ states that the fourth crusade was wasteful and destructive event.The result only further dividing the christian world. And arriving in constantinople the venetians who had been hired to transport the crusaders and the knights agreed to attack the byzantine capital instead. The city was savagely taken as long as may people's lives. This is important because we know now that the fourth crusade was a heart breaking and harsh full event.Document _7___ states that maintaining the kingdom was very difficult. To begin their numbers were small. The crusaders were very dependent on the western europe for supplies and soldiers. To make it worse the crusading knights often abused and committed atrocities against eastern orthodox christians, jews, and muslims in the area they were passing. This is important because the crusades often abused and committed atrocities against other people.This leads to a negative impact

Though there were a lot of effects which resulted out of crusades, there were numerous impacts too:

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 Papacy in Rome sanctioned the First Crusade and Pope Urban II preached for a great Christian expedition to capture Jerusalem, the Holy Lands from the Muslims. During this time religion permeated every aspect of life. The Christian kings and peasants believed that every human being was judged in death and one way to absolve oneself of sin was to die in the name of the Lord, therefore dying in the Crusades would purify the soul allowing them to go straight to heaven. Consequently, “thousands of laymen and clergy took up the cross and younger sons of the upper-class had military advantages to become Crusaders” (Fiero, 2017). At this particular time, the church acknowledged and vindicated fighting and killing in the name of God, resulting in the Crusaders slaughtering all enemies of Christ; hundreds of men, women, and children plus the “entire Jewish populations of Cologne and Mainz became victims” (Fiero, 2017). The First Crusade set a dangerous precedent, the rise of organized anti-Jewish persecution and each subsequent Crusade resulted in renewed attacks on the Jews. The persecution of Jews reached a climax during the Crusades.

The crusade had a negative effect on both the christians and the muslims. The negative impact it had was it killed innocent jews who were not a part of the crusade they would kill them because they were mad and did not trust any religion but their own.

One of their goals was to split churches permanent.They had destroyed Constantinople and they had destroyed their magnificent library and they

A big reason that crusaders were fighting was because the land was sacred and they were trying to get it back from nonbelievers of their religion. The Pope was telling everyone about the holiness of the city when he said: ”This royal city, therefore, situated at the centre of the world, is now held captive by His enemies, and is in subjection to those who do not know God, to the worship of the heathens.”(Document 1). The land was holy to the Christians and it was overtaken by the Persians so the Pope was relying everyone together to go and take back their holy land. The middle east is more fruitful than Europe and it talks about the wonderful fruitfulness in the middle east in the bible when it says “That land which as the Scripture says "floweth with milk and honey," was given by God into the possession of the children of Israel Jerusalem is the navel of the world; the land is fruitful above others, like another paradise of delights.”(Document 1). In the Bible, it stated that the Middle East is fruitful and that its fruitfulness is like a paradise of delights. In conclusion, the land that the crusaders were fighting for was holy and fruitful.

This is (important/interesting/relevant) The attack of the Byzantine Capital had no responsibility as well as weren’t included for the Crusades. The depressing result as why they attacked the Capital was for the treasures they had in store as the soldiers made themselves fall into the evil of greed.As it represents, the Crusaders in both sides were responsible and were never held accountable for their actions of brutal and insightful murders due to the beliefs and biases those people had for

The First Crusades was a military group that was started by Christians in Europe who wanted to gain back the Holy Land that was being occupied by the Muslims. Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont Ferrand on November 1095. Most histories consider this speech to be the spark the fueled a wave of military campaigns to gain back the Holy Land. This speech was meant to unite the Europeans and to gain back what was taken from them. The holy land was a small area on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. The First Crusades was a very successful military expedition that was driven by religious faith to reclaim Jerusalem and other holy places that fell under Muslim control. driven by religious faith. They wanted to gain back the Holy Land that was once theirs. Arabs and the Muslim Turks otherwise known as the Seljuk Turks were the Muslims that invaded and conquered land rightfully occupied by the Christian’s. Many European men, women, and children joined the Crusades and fought in the Middle East. Pope Urban II granted forgiveness of all sins to those who died in battle thus assuring them ascendancy into heaven. Which gave those who volunteered to fight assurance. Nobles and peasants responded in great numbers to the call and marched across Europe to the capital of the Byzantine empire. Having the support of the Byzantine emperor helped make them a stronger army. The Crusaders took over many of the cities on the Mediterranean coast and built a large number of fortified castles across the Holy Land to protect their newly established territories. Soon after seizing power the Seljuks face a very different challenge to Islamic civilization. It came from Christian Crusaders. Knights from western Europe who were determined to capture portions of the Islamic world that made up the holy land of biblical times. Muslim political division and element of surprise made the first of the Crusaders assaults, between 1096 and 1099, by far the most successful. Much of

For many years, holy wars had been fought by Christians all across Europe against the impeding forces of neighboring Muslims. These wars were called the Crusades and for decades upon centuries, thousands of lives had been lost on both the Christian and Muslim fronts. Historically speaking, there were approximately nine crusades waged upon the Muslims to stop them from encroaching further on European territory, but most of these Crusades were unsuccessful with the advent of strong Muslim empires. Empires such as the Abbasid, the Fatimid, and the Ottoman all had advanced technology with the advent of gunpowder and canons; they were unstoppable and continued to conquer lands up to Vienna and Austria. The main goal of the Crusades was to “take back” the Holy land of Jerusalem, a sacred site to all people of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and to fight against the unbeilivers (Spielvogel, 329). Each of the three religions held claims about the significance of the city and the surrounding area, relating back to their respective prophets, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, respectively. Christians joined the crusader expeditions for several reasons: for the glory of spreading their religion, for the spoils of war, and for preventing any progression of Islam.

The age leading up to the first crusade is detailed by many current historians, as well as Pope Urban II, as a time period where inhabitants "rage[d] against [their own] brothers and cut each other [to] pieces" (Peters, Baldric of Dol, 31) for economic and social advancement. In spite of these references, many people today believe that the Pope instigated the crusades for the sole reason of reclaiming Jerusalem. However, other motivations such as supplementary religious factors and the chance for economic, social, and political gain also played major roles. These motivations were not experienced supremely by the Pope; in fact he needed to instill these inspirations in all Christians to evoke their will to fight. The holy land had long

The Crusaders were Christian Western Europeans who invaded the Middle East to "purify" their holy lands. Byzantine Emperor incentivised Catholic leaders to claim Jerusalem for Christians. The elicit leaders prompted the Middle Eastern incursions, and promised complete redemption of the sins of those who participated. Their mission was to the remove Non-Christians, Muslims in particular.

Starting in the thirteenth century the focus of the Crusades switched dramatically. Before the Popes and Kings called for Crusades to fight against the Infidels to regain Christian lands, especially the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Now the Crusades were being called for men to fight against their own, Christians against

the true motives of the Crusaders. To him they posed a threat to his empire due

The Crusaders were a Christian based terrorist group that was organized to force Islamic practicing Muslims to convert to Christianity or suffer to the blade of their swords. Because of this terrorist group, innocent lives were slain in both the Christian and the Islamic religions. Pope Urban II saw this opportunity as: