Lying In The Byzantine Empire

Circa 1000 C.E, the Catholic Kingdoms, Byzantine Empire, and Islamic Caliphates kept their own beliefs and ideas for land to strive successfully. What lied in Western Europe was the properties of the Catholic Kingdom. For the Church and existing Christians, the most important thing was to get as many people to convert and become part of the religion. Families all over and the people of the villages were focused strongly on God and their everyday lives based off the teachings of the Church (Ellis 191). There were assigned people to work on farms with crops as well as women who never really had a choice in their favor. This was one issue they had when it came to this religion, but was soon recovered. Feudalism was a new system that was introduced
The Byzantine Empire was striving very well until the constant wars and problems over succession kicked in (Ellis 237). The failure of the empire made them weaker and the enemies became stronger. The Muslim nomadic people called the Seljuks had more control and believed it would be easy to conquer this area. The emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Alexios I Komnenos, was in charge when the Seljuk Turks attacked. He wanted was to make sure that the Islamic people would not overpower and conquer his land. There was nothing left to do so the Byzantine Emperor called for help to Pope Urban II and his people to fight them off (Ellis 238). Even after the “Great Schism” of 1054, it was loyal of the Pope to help the eastern Christians to make sure it was not conquered by the Seljuks. In the Pope’s speech, the problem that the Byzantines were facing is addressed and then about the fact that all the listening people must obey the “God” and fight for their lives. The Pope strongly stood for his religion and also about not letting people of a different religion conquer a special
The First Crusade was able to capture Jerusalem in 1099 and made them very proud. The Second Crusade came and this was the next major fight to help rebuild Edessa against the Islams. After a defeat, the Crusaders sought to fight again. After the loss of Jerusalem over Saladin, they approached and attacked the Byzantines in hopes of regaining their power and some land (Charting The First Four Crusades). This clearly shows their strength and want for land and wealth. The Crusaders continued an on-going fight for 200 years just to keep regaining land and power. As important as obeying God was, these Christians began to feel a wave of competition and need for defeating the Muslims to make sure they didn’t gain anymore power than they did. In the same concept, the Crusaders were able to increase the power of feudal monarchs and soon developed rights to collect more taxes to support their mission ( Ellis