“The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups”. In all‚ eight major Crusade expeditions occurred between 1096 and 1291. The bloody‚ violent and often ruthless conflicts propelled the status of European Christians‚ making them major players in the fight for land in the Middle East. In my personal opinion I think that the results of the crusades were negative.First off‚ how the crusades
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group of peasants were starting their own “People’s Crusade‚” which was unsuccessful. Post
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The primary cause of the crusades Were the crusades caused primarily by religious devotion or by desire for political and economic gain? Christians and Muslims fought in a series of wars for nearly 200 years. The drive to gain control of the Holy Land was the biggest motivation. Christians wanted the Holy Land because this was where Jesus lived. The Muslims also wanted Jerusalem because this was where Muhammad preached. The biggest debate about the crusades is whether it was caused by
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the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. During the Middle Ages there was an uproar of holy wars known as the crusades. The word crusade comes from the Latin word crux‚ meaning "cross." The Christian soldiers‚ called Crusaders‚ wore the cross as a symbol of their religion. The crusades began in 1090’s and continued in the 11th and 12th centuries. The main cause for the holy wars was because of Pope Urban II‚ he wanted to capture the sacred places
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The first of the Crusades began in 1095‚ when armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to Pope Urban II’s plea to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land. After the First Crusade achieved its goal with the capture of Jerusalem in 1099‚ the invading Christians set up several Latin Christian states‚ even as Muslims in the region vowed to wage holy war (jihad) to regain control over the region. The Crusades were predominantly a series of religious wars undertaken by the Latin Church
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The Crusades were serious vicious Holy wars between the Christian states or Europe and Saracens ‚ who are present day Muslims. There were a total of nine crusades ‚ the first four being the most notable and the Children’s Crusade being the decline of the conflict. The crusades started in 109A.D around the sacred city of Jerusalem which held significant religious value to both the Christians and Muslims. The Children’s Crusade as initiated because of young peasants in France ‚Germany that were to
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In the First Crusade‚ Christian knights that came from Europe went and capture Jerusalem. They had been massacring almost all the city’s Muslim and Jewish population. The reason this happened was because Christians were being persecuted in Jerusalem‚ because the Holy City was passed from Egyptians to Seljuk. A Pope called for a crusade to help Christians in the east and to recover the holy lands. And then people went over there immediately. A Crusade called “People’s Crusade” had went a far way with
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The crusades were an astonishing and remarkable phenomenon which employed an authoritative influence on European growth and expansion over a period of several Centuries. The Study of crusades has extended swiftly in the last 50 years‚ encompassing the study of military excursions from Middle East to the Western Europe between 1095 and 1291. The First Crusade was acknowledged its shape and name late. To the contemporaries‚ the occasion was a voyage and the men who participated in it were called the
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The Crusades were “wars fought to regain holy land from the Muslims” (Perry‚ Chase and Jacob). These Crusades were fought by the Christians. The first Crusade was started by Pope Urban II in 1095 and in 1099 it resulted in a successful capture of Jerusalem. The second Crusade was to recapture the city of Edessa from the Muslims‚ and were humiliated and failed. The third Crusade was to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims‚ which also failed due to illness. The fourth Crusade was to again‚ try to take
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The Crusades: An Origin The Crusades are renowned as the most massive church-sanctioned militaristic movement of the later middles ages‚ like no other military movement of the time. The series of events that brought about the existance of the Crusaders were so large as to eclipse the affairs of the homeland in the West in the name of religious faith and duty. Chivalric idealism‚ romance of battle and the notion of beautific zeal affect the way in which both the Crusaders and the Crusades are
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