Crusades Dbq

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The Albigensian Crusade is an example of one religion trying to remove the threat of another religion out of fear that one ideology would affect the other. This crusade is called to be one of the first genocides in European history for its gruesomeness and lack of humanistic behaviours. The Catholics of Northern France set up military campaigns to remove the perceived threat in Southern France. That threat to the Catholics at the time was the spread of Catharism. Catharism was viewed as a threat to their ideology because they had differing beliefs than in Catholicism.
Cathars were a religious group in Europe during the eleventh and twelfth century. They were heretical Christians who got many of their beliefs from doing trades with Eastern Europe the traders bring over their teachings to the people of Southern France. Cathars did not believe in priests or believe in going to church in a whole. They believed that one could be reincarnated but where you went upon reincarnation depended on how you lived your life and praised God. Cathars believed in having two Gods a good God and bad God. “The Good God was the god of all immaterial things (such as light and souls). The bad God was the god of all material things, including the world and everything in it” (McDonald). They believed that knowledge pertaining God and religion was only given

The old bell tower or the south tower and the new bell tower or the north tower. The old bell tower was built in 1170 and this tower is more Romanesque than it is Gothic. It being part of the old church that did not burn down it carries little decoration leaving it looking plain it also seems to be shorter but wider. The new bell tower is more Gothic style. It was built in the 16th century. The south tower has crocket and gargoyle decorations built on them leaving it with a more distinct look. The new bell tower looks taller and skinnier than the old bell