were the crusades more for the prestige of the roman empire than for God?

Question

i'm sorry. i should say for the revitalization of the roman empire.

Answer 1

anything related to god, is all about power and control, not about god at all

Answer 2

It was past the Roman Empire Era. It seems the greed of man ruled over most of the crusades. Though there were some people who had good motives they were very ignorant and didn't know what they were doing. This was the dark ages remember when most of society was pretty messed up.

For some odd reason, even though this was known as the "Dark Ages" and ignorance was widespread among all peoples many people today blame the Roman Catholic church to this day. It is also a belief firmly based in ignorance and superstition.

Answer 3

The Roman Empire?

What?

The Roman Empire was long gone by the time of the Crusades!

Answer 4

Absolutely. The crusades were more for the empires in control at the time than for God. (at the time of the crusades the roman empire had fallen.) They were to "reclaim" the holy land, and it's treasure, and are one of the worst things done in the name of Christ. Along with the Spanish Inquisition.

Answer 5

The end of the Roman Empire was in 332 AD, the First Crusade was in 1066 AD. So... what... time travel?

Answer 6

I'm sure alittle of it was for roman empire but really at that time, there were alot of pilgrims going to Isreal. It was called the Kingdom of Heaven. Well these Pilgrimages were being threatened by the caliph Umar but they were still allowed to go through. I believe in the 11th century, the Fatmid caliph Hakim started persecuting and eventually killing them. That sparked it, but really it was Byzantine empire that was being threatened by the Seljuk Turks. I could go on, but there was a real threat and yes at some point the end result was to conquer Jerusalem but there you go.

Answer 7

The Roman empire had disappeared. The various European princes were fighting among themselves, and the Pope was loosing his authority. The Pope thought that a way to stop them from fighting and regain his authority was to unite them in a common cause, to free the holy land from the muslims.

Answer 8

Yes , the roman empire has always wanted credit in everything . They called themselves doing it for God , but so does islam

Answer 9

for 2000 years "christians" ( note the small c and the quotes - don't overreact) have been launchng conquests to bring converts to God, not just the crusades but Columbus' expedition to "India", all the spaniards who went to south America , the UK colonizing their empire, the French in Canada, the Sapniards again in our Southwest. Regardless of their stated purpose almost all have ended badly in the pursuit of riches for the monarch who sponsored them.

Answer 10

To clear a passage to the east - Silk road. Was blocked by the Middle easterners, who were Muslims by then. They wanted to by spices from the east as India.

And it was the Europeans predominantly Christians who fought not Romans - mainly English and French

Answer 11

It's in the same category as the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials.. manipulation of belief for personal gain.