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2006-12-01 00:18:35 · 6 answers · asked by Don Jazzy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
This is a really cool question.
Causes:
- Erosion of Papal political and economic power in the 11th century.
- Attacks on Christian pilgrims on their way to holy places in the middle east by simple robbers and thieves was misinterpretted as Muslim race and religious attacks. They were just common thieves interested in money and treasure, not religious ideology in the beginning.
- The Pope sells guaranteed entry into Heaven to Kings, Lords, Noblemen, and Knights if they donate money to the church and fight in the crusades.
- The barbaric and brutal European warriors kill women and children splitting them open to find jewels and gold coins that they believed the victims had swallowed.
- The Europeans capture and defile numerous Muslim cities and shrines.
- The Muslim nations retaliate and retaliate and retaliate.
Consequences:
- The intensity of the hatred and the crimes of religious wars become so engrained in the respective cultures that permanent suspicion, distrust, and enmity exist for centuries afterwards.
- For centuries, geopolitical differences retard the abilities for people to live in peace.
- The ancient religious factions influence how boundary lines of countries are drawn.
- The west evolves and develops at a greatly accelerated rate than the Muslim and Arabic countries.
- The rise of the Knights Templar creates the first basic market and economic infrastructure for an international banking and foreign exchange system to fund the war.
- The reason Friday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck and bad fortune.
I hope these humble thoughts trigger some brilliant insights for you.
2006-12-01 10:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by angelthe5th 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which crusade? There were several, at least four to the Holy Land between the 11th and 14th centuries, the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars in Languedoc and yet others in Poland and the Baltic states.
2006-12-01 01:14:27 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The consequence was the radicalization of the moslems/arabs which we continue to pay for. The religious zealots of that time were the Christians. Thier attacks forced unity on the moslem world to defeat them.
2006-12-01 01:04:45 · answer #3 · answered by vegas_iwish 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the muslims took jerusalem (etc). the christians wanted it back. consequences? right. that not obvious to you?
2006-12-01 00:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by practicalwizard 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Which one? There were several.
2006-12-01 10:15:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
which one?
2006-12-01 03:04:41 · answer #6 · answered by answererman 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋