What was it about?
When was it?
How did it get started?
How did it end?
2006-09-17 04:16:30 · 14 answers · asked by Yes 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The sad thing is, they didn't work, nor go far enough.
If the Crusaders had gone to Mecca and destroyed it, a lot of suffering in the world today would have been prevented.
Unfortunately, the Crusaders were also anti-Jewish, and killed many innocent people in the Levant.
2006-09-17 07:10:08 · answer #1 · answered by Mike P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It basically started after the fall of the Carolingian rule of the Frankish area, including France and Germany and other areas. Around 1075, there was also the argument in Germany about who had the power to place a church official in office (investiture), which the Church won. 1095 was the beginning of the first major Crusade. The first major involvement by the Catholic Church was in defense of Constantinople and the Eastern Empire, when the Muslim Turks attacked them repeatedly, and finally the East got assistance from the West. There were different reasons for different crusades, and most all were given approval by the Catholic Church, which set up the Holy Roman Empire in the former Carolingian lands. The Crusades ended essentially with the loss of Syria to the Muslims around 1272 A.D., although there were other wars called Crusades after that major blow to the spread and control by the Catholic Church.
2006-09-17 08:47:09 · answer #2 · answered by Another Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The crusades were recorded by kings and a few people who actually returned, so the story, I am sure has been warped.
Basically the Turks conquered mos tof the middle East, Included Jeruselum, which is the Christian Holy City.
The Pope declared war on the Turks and sent an Army. The Army was poorly organized, funded and supplied and most died before they got there.
The few that made it were butchered. There were several other attmpts in the next hundred years, most notably King Richard of England. HE succeeded for a while, but the city was retaken.
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2006-09-17 04:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by billyandgaby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Crusades lasted for hundreds of years. There were many knights around Europe who had no one else to fight, so they were fighting each other, instead. The pope decided the best way to stop this was to instead divert their energies toward another enemy--the "godless" Muslims who now controlled the Holy Land. He whipped Europe into a frenzy, calling for all Christians to unite against them. He especially attracted riff-raff by promising that if they went on Crusade, all their sins would be forgiven. Unfortunately, they were poorly equipped and even more poorly trained, and the Muslims were very skilled. But many of those who went also treated it as one big excuse to riot, and they killed anyone and everyone in sight, including women, children, Jews, and even other Christians who already lived there. The Muslims were far more sophisticated, and many had already considered Europeans to be uncivilized--this only confirmed that belief. The Muslims were defending not only their own Holy Land, but their homeland, so even though at one point the Crusaders controlled Jerusalem, they were gradually beaten back to only controlling the city of Acre. Eventually, they lost this stronghold, too.
2006-09-18 03:37:40 · answer #4 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The problem is that there were about 13 crusades or more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
"When originally conceptualized, the aim was to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims ... Later crusades were launched against various targets for a mixture of religious, economic, and political reasons
I've also read that some were simply to give European knights something to do.
2006-09-17 04:23:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I read that the first crusade was against the Albigensians of Southern France because they lived by the teachings of Jesus Christ and put the Roman Catholic hierarchy to shame. The Pope found this very annoying and decided to put a stop to it.
2006-09-17 07:54:33 · answer #6 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could never answer on history so far back for I was NOT there... AND we are finding errors in our history books more and more... Ever play the "telephone" game?? Where you whisper one sentence to a person and they tell another and then that person tells another and at the end of the line the sentence has changed considerably. Well that is I view history as well... everyone has their own opinions & translations and I would bet my life that things have been distorted over time!
You posted this in the perfect spot, you should get a nice amount of opinions here and OPINIONS are what they will be for none of these people were there either! Good Luck ! : )
2006-09-17 04:31:59 · answer #7 · answered by Kitty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Crusades were a very long time ago and we can't be certain about what happened. I am much more concerned about what Muslims are doing to non-Muslims in the twenty-first century!
2006-09-17 04:40:27 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was about trying to take Jerusalem for either Christianity or Islam.
It took place over a series of a few centuries.
How did it get started? Christian knights go into Jerusalem and capture it.
It ended with Muslims turning the Haga Sophia into a mosque.
2006-09-17 04:49:19 · answer #9 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they began in 1095 and ended with the third crusade in 1291 by richard the lionheart, they were sanctioned by the pope the aim being to recapture the holy land from the muslims and protect christian pilgrims,
2006-09-17 04:30:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋