Crusades Dbq Essay

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

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

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