What are the Crusades?

Question

I know there are First Crusades and and some later ones, but what IS IT ABOUT THEM?

Correct me if i am wrong, but is it connected to Jerusalem or something? and why did they fight for?

Answer 1

The Crusades occured after England, France and many other European countries developed. They seen the Church as being corrupt and fought for change. At the same time, Muslims were coming further north. They were across the northern part of Africa and were taking over regions of the Middle East including Jerusalem. With Jerusalem being such a holy city, the Christians went on "Crusades" to go and reclaim it for their religious beliefs. There were 3 in all. Men, women, and children rambled through Europe in great herds all heading towards the same direction. It came following the dark, Mideval Ages. The middle ages were marked with the Plague, the corruption of the Church, and many wars. So, with a new sense of life and happiness, the Europeans claimed what they believed and went on the Crusades and did all of this wonderful stuff. This paved the way for many events in European history such as the Renaissance, the age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, and the Revolutions that set the stage for Modern Europe and the founding of our nation.

Answer 2

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns—usually sanctioned by the Papacy—that took place during the 11th through 13th centuries. Originally, they were Roman Catholic Holy Wars to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, but some were directed against other targets, such as the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of southern France, the Northern Crusades, and the Fourth Crusade which conquered Constantinople.

Beyond the medieval military events, the word "crusade" has evolved to have multiple meanings and connotations.

Answer 3

The crusades were a series of journies that European knights made to the middle east in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries to try and recapture the "Holy Land" from the Muslims.

It kind of created a rift between Christianity and Islam which still exists to this day.

It was used as a lure by the Pope and other Christian leaders as a way to absolve knights of sin but also a way to gain more territory and power.

Ultimately it only led to an extreme distrust of the west by Muslims and the MIddle East. Some compare the Crusaders to the Islamic Jihaddists of today. People willing to kill for their religion.


Very simple explanation. There are a ton of things that I did not inlcude but I think I have the general gist of it above.

Answer 4

Crusades were the organized by the Pope attacks of the West European people (Catholics - governed by the Pope) against the Orthodox of the East (Orthodox), immediately after the Great Schism of the Church!
The pope succeeded in motivating the knights and rulers of the West, promising forgiveness for their crimes and allowing them to get with them of all valuables they would/ could steel from the East! Eventually, he took those too!
The Pope was saying they were going to free Jerusalem from the Muslims, but some of the crusades never reach there, they stop at Constantinople; since they captured the city, why to get out?

Answer 5

Christian bigots going against the first tenet of their faith and killing their neighbour instead of loving them. (The Norman invasion of England (1066) was a Holy Crusade, backed by the Pope.) They were fighting because they were uncivilised brutes and bullies, murderous thugs pillaging and looting under the guise of freeing the Holy Lands and the Holy Places from the hands of the Muslims, who, until we invaded, were quite good at protecting these sites without defiling them.

Answer 6

–1192), also wide-spread because the King's campaign, replaced into an attempt through eu leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. After the failure of the 2d campaign, the Zengid dynasty less than Nur ad-Din managed a unified Syria and engaged in conflict with the Fatimid rulers of Egypt. The participation of the Crusader States in this conflict finally resulted contained in the unification of Egyptian and Syrian forces less than the command of Saladin, who employed them to shrink the Christian states and to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. the hot pope, Gregory VIII, proclaimed that the capture of Jerusalem replaced into punishment for the sins of Christians throughout the time of Europe. Henry II of england and Philip II of France ended their conflict with one yet another, implementing a "Saladin tithe" on their voters to finance a sparkling campaign. The elderly Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa spoke back to the decision at contemporary, taking over the bypass at Mainz Cathedral on March 27, 1188, and starting up for the Holy Land in would of 1189 with a defense force of over one hundred,000 adult males. After some defense force successes, the Christian powers argued over the spoils of conflict; pissed off with Richard, Frederick's successor Leopold V of Austria and Philip left the Holy Land in August 1191. On September 2, 1192, Richard and Saladin finalized a treaty through which Jerusalem would stay less than Muslim administration, yet which also allowed unarmed Christian pilgrims to visit the city. Richard departed the Holy Land on October 9. The failure of the third campaign would carry about the decision for a Fourth campaign six years later.

Answer 7

The crusades were a large part of history. It pretty much boiled down to who was going to control the "holy lands". Jeruselem was one of the biggest parts of it. Bethlehem was another. There's a pretty good documentary from the history channel you can buy and it will tell you most of it.

Answer 8

They were campaigns againts the saracins that conqured Jerusalim which is the a holy place.So the main goal was to get Jerusalim back for the Islams.

Answer 9

they wanted control of the Holy Land.

Answer 10

YES