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How Did The Crusades Affect Society Today

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The Crusades were a series of wars that happened over the control of the Holy Lands in
Jerusalem. This was a series of Holy wars that started in 1096 and lasted 200 years. They fought these wars because both the Muslims and the Christians wanted it for their control because they both saw it as a holy land for their religions. These bloody wars impacted the society at that time and the effects of the Crusades can still be seen in society today.
The Crusades impacted people of that time. First of all, Pope Urban the II was telling the people that the Holy Lands that were being invaded by the Muslim Turks and that they needed people to go fight. As a result, thousands of people went to fight and not a lot came back. When people traveled to the …show more content…

Each group thought that
Jerusalem should be solely their own in order to bring closeness to their God. But in fact the
Crusades caused each group to behave in ways that were against their own religion anyway. A few people, like Marco Polo, looked past the desire for control of the land and focused on the all the new places, people and knowledge to explore. This brought about learning about things unknown and about developments that improved the lives of people in other parts of the world.

It’s not hard to image the results of a Crusade today because Holy Wars are still being fought in many parts of the world. The Muslim and Jewish people are still fighting a war over land in the Middle East. In 1947, the United Nations separated land and gave some to the Jewish people and created the state of Israel. This was not accepted well by either group of people. The
Jewish people say they have a right to the land based on history and their religion. The Palestine people also say they have the right to the land on the basis of history, religion and their ethnic claim. Fighting is still happening.
Another modern day religious war happened in Nigeria in the 2010’s between

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