The Impacts Of The Crusades

The Crusades are the Medieval European wars waged principally to recover the Holy Lands from the control of the Muslims. There is an aggregate of nine noteworthy Crusades, but the first four were the most important. The main legitimate Crusades were launched from Western Europe to recover and protect Jerusalem. The first crusade started in 1096 where tens of thousands of aggressive younger sons of the nobility went off to Palestine or Eastern Europe to fight the unbelievers, recover the long-lost Holy Land, and make their riches (they thought). In spite of the fact that the First Campaign could seize Jerusalem and quickly set up a Christian-ruled kingdom in Muslim Palestine, these activities invigorated and extended old enmities in the middle …show more content…
Western knights turned their contentiousness and avarice on the Greek has in Constantinople, as opposed to on the Muslims. The scandal was so great that although several more attempts were made to organize armies to regain the Holy Lands by the later 1200s, the Near East had reverted to uniform Muslim rule once again. The Crusades added to peace in Europe by giving aggressive youthful nobles an outlet to practice their warlike motivations in a congregation endorsed arena by the church. There was a lot of hate during that …show more content…
First it increases the power and wealth of the papacy. Secondly it undermined feudalism. Feudalism is a system that was used to secure land and it allowed people to come and work for their protection. They gave more political power to the royalty, and more social power to the serfs. Thirdly, it expanded their intellectual and scholarly development. They were able to make more sophisticated weapon and materials. Their material development skills gave them a desire for exploration. And lastly, the Crusades deepened animosity between the Christians, Muslims, and