The Crusades Dbq

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PARAGRAPH #1: INTRO: The Crusades impacted many people and major religious groups negatively and positively from Europe to the Middle East. MAIN POINT A: Trade in science, ideas, and goods (positively/to West) MAIN POINT B: The struggle of whether or not to modernize and make compromises with Western culture ( negative / Arab and Muslim world ) MAIN POINT C: Christianity left a bitter legacy of religious hatred behind them (negative/ both) THESIS: The effects of trade, resistance to modernization, and religion were the most significant effects of the Crusades because they all still affect the Middle East and Western Europe today. PARAGRAPH #2: MAIN POINT A RESTATED: Trade was one of the major impacts of the Crusades that influenced people’s …show more content…

*SUPPORTING POINT #3: As goods traveled to and from the Middle East, they passed through the port cities along the Mediterranean. This resulted in those cities thriving with business and shipbuilding. (SUPPORTING POINT #4:) The crusaders bringing new ideas of technology in the Western culture and thriving from it, actually brings up my next main point. PARAGRAPH #3: MAIN POINT B RESTATED: The struggle of modernization and making compromises with the West is a significant effect of the Crusades because it is still affecting the world today. SUPPORTING POINT #1: Continuous invasions from the Turks, Crusaders, and Mongols created the feeling that Arabs must harden their attitude towards other cultures to save their own. SUPPORTING POINT #2: The Arab and Muslim world has a hard time modernizing from the Western culture today, just because of the distrust that was formed during the Crusades. SUPPORTING POINT #3: All Arabs in the Middle East started to view the Western world in doubt, and that they only wanted to take control over their lands so they could gain

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