Imagine you're sitting out on your front porch on a bright and sunny day. It’s relaxing, it’s calm and one of the best days in a while. But suddenly it is interrupted by a huge storm and it is now gloomy, terrible, and wet and muddy. But at the end of every rainstorm will be a rainbow. But is there going to be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? During the Crusades this was the case. It was a brawl for Jerusalem. After the Muslims took over Jerusalem, the Christians felt obliged to take it back. This was the ultimate goal of the crusades, but the path they took to accomplish this was bloody. In just one Crusade, up to ten thousand people might have died. This was terrible and the penultimate mean did not justify the actions done. Overall …show more content…
This contributed to the shame of the event. Many inspired Christians “often pursued violence against other non-Christians”, they were brutal and left many for dead (Document #2, “The Crusades Assignment”). Crusaders were merciless and it was just shameful that they treated other religions this way. Along with violence their emotions they felt towards their actions were shameful. After reaching their goal, Jerusalem, they were filled with “mad with joy” and after killing many Muslims and Jews to get their they were also “full of happiness and weeping with joy” (Document #3, “The Crusades Assignment”). After murdering and destroying the lives and homes of the Muslims and Jews they still felt joy. A normal person wouldn’t feel happiness after killing so many people on purpose. It was just a shame that the Crusaders did and felt …show more content…
But just because the Crusades brought along a blessing does not mean that it was excusable. The results of the Crusades may have seemed very beneficial because it “increased trade, ended feudalism, and advanced civilization” as a whole (“Result of the Crusades assignment”). But the deaths and path that led to these unforeseen benefits were just unethical. Those who argue that the Crusades were more of a blessing than a shameful event are partially correct, but the better argument is that the Crusades were more of a shameful event because the ends did not justify the means. The development of the world as we know it wouldn’t be the same without the Crusades. But how would the Crusaders have known that the world would be gaining this insight and their world was able to develop when they mass murdered so many people in the Crusades. It was shameful and it led to these unprecedented events. It doesn’t mean that it was good and it wasn’t a blessing because of the horrid and revolting actions the Crusaders did to the Muslims and Jews. At the end of the day the Crusades were more of a shameful
He also evaluates the pope’s speech declaring the crusades in depth, which he explains that the crusaders truly believed that they were fighting for god; they were fighting in “God’s battalions”. A major point Stark wants the reader to take away by the end of the monograph is that the Muslims did not hold a grudge on the Westerns because of the crusades. There was originally no hatred for the Christians and Westerners after the crusades; the hatred did not develop until later on. He provides examples from many historians saying that the Muslims hate Western Christians countries because of the crusades. Starks explains that the Muslims did not seem to pay much attention to the crusades when they were occurring and for centuries after.
According to (document E) Life in the Middle Ages “ Was insecure, violence was everywhere and poverty was widespread.” The troubling experiences were so overwhelming that the Holy Roman Empire felt that it was necessary the Crusades. By promoting the crusades people would be able to focus their violence and energy to a greater cause. In addition, the
The Crusaders didn't always attack the Muslim Empires. Sometimes they attacked each other. Document 1 states that, “In Europe, Crusaders sometimes turned their fury against Jews, massacring entire communities.” This is relevant because the Crusaders were supposed to be fighting the Muslims to get land, but instead they decided to attack the Jews and destroy their communities.
Pope Urban II called upon all Christians into this war, calling those who don’t believe in God Heathens and providing reason to take control of Jerusalem again. Also assuring that the soldiers of this war will get an admission into Heaven. (Document 1) Christians, no matter the empire or region were being united by the Crusades through their love of Christ. (Document 2) French and German crusaders invaded a Jewish City, killing people for sanctification of the Lord. (Document 5)
Others thought of the crusades as a commercial opportunity and used it to trade and sell items as they were traveling. One more reason people went to fight in the crusades is to settle down. They went with the crusades but once they were in the Muslim
The Crusades was a war between two religions , which were Islam and Christianity. They both were fighting for the holy land in Jerusalem. For the Christians the holy land meant that Jesus was born there. For the Muslims the holy land was where Muslims believe Muhammad the prophet was taken to heaven by Allah which is called The Dome Of Rock. In our opinion the Crusades were a failure because it was a waste of time and a lot of lives were lost.
Did you know that Christians in the middle ages were so dedicated to their religion that they held a children's crusade to take down the enemy that actual soldiers couldn’t defeat? That is just how dedicated people can be to their religion. I do not entirely blame them, in the middle ages religion was the one thing people can look forward to in life so it would just make sense that religious devotion, and the paradise of Heaven is what the religions were fighting for during the Crusades. The Crusades was a war between the Christians and Muslims during Europe's middle ages that is often viewed as a holy war, however some people are beginning to believe it was more about money or land. However this cannot be true because of how much people
Introduction: Provide background information on the Crusades, restate the DBQ question, state thesis with reasons. (include academic vocabulary and underline) The results of the Crusades was probably more negative than positive. In “Doc 4”, It states that “Moreover, the assault of one Christian people on another, when one of the goals of the Fourth Crusade was reunion of Greek and Latin churches, made the split between the Greek and Latin churches permanent.” The Crusades had a lot of hatred to the religions, and by 1204 the Crusaders had lost some of their appeal because the knights agreed to attack the Byzantine Capital instead.
Up to approximately seven major Crusades, the Muslims and Christians went through bloody days, and many attacks on each other. After many years of victories and misplacements, the Holy Land was claimed by the Muslims. It is perceptible that the Crusades were caused primarily by religious devotion because Jerusalem had a Holy significance, They wanted to signify their loyalty and cause of their God, and to guarantee
Thousands took the cross, especially French, Norman, and Flemish knights. Several bands of badly armed pilgrims from France and Germany, most of them poor and inexperienced, set out of Constantinople, even before the army gathered. Some started by massacring jews on their way through Germany.” (Crusades: Christian Perspective, Encyclopedia of Religion, 2005). This evidence proves that the Christians believed that “God willed it” and they needed to fight the Muslims for their Holy Land, which is war propaganda - a human right violation.
Christians viewed Muslims as a lesser race which draws parallels to modern-day racial stereotypes. In light of this viewpoint, the First Crusaders' ambition to free Jerusalem from Muslim authority as well as their goal to protect Christian access to the region's sacred places had a considerable impact on them. One of the key motivations of the Crusaders was the quest of material wealth. Many of the crusaders were poor, landless knights or peasants who regarded the trip as a chance to become rich and powerful. Many Crusaders believed that the land of the infidel was rich in plunder and that the Holy War provided a chance to acquire wealth, land, and glory.
The negative way is the crusades spread christianity farther and faster than it did the islamic culture making less follow it. ”Long familiar with wars against external infidels attracting spiritual privileges, in the 11th century the Western Church extended the images and rituals of holy war to conflicts within Christendom as the Church strove to define its legal, liturgical, and theological codes''This shows that the western church and the islamic culture have had serval “holy wars”The holy wars refer to the crusades this effect islamic culture because it was being attacked more than once over time which did not help it grow and would slow down the speed that it
Many things happened during the crusades. First crusaders left there families, the women and children where left to fend for themselves. In the first and only successful crusade the crusaders killed all Muslim inhabitants of Jerusalem. Although the crusaded was successful, within 46 years the land had to be fought for agin. All thought there was other crusades they still didn 't manage regain the holy land.
Many later crusades lost sight of their original goal and created thievery and violence that tarnished the reputation of the Catholic Church. Two major effects of the Crusades were the
The Muslim people were the ones being attacked and had opposing viewpoints of what was going on. The views of the crusades were vastly different from two of the largest religious groups of their time, the Christians and the Muslims. The Christians looked at the crusade as their religious and personal mission and duty. After all, the Christians were the ones who were leading the crusades and they were the ones who were the biggest advocates of them.