In the Middle Ages who won the Crusades overall? Was it the Christians or the Muslims?

Question

Oops! The Crusades were technically prior to the Middle Ages. Sorry folks for the error.

Answer 1

Here are the latest Premiership crusade results.............

First Crusade (1095-1099) : Crusaders v Turks - Crusaders win 2 battles then invade Jerusalem, massacring the population (Crusaders 1 - Muslims 0)

Second Crusade (1145-1149) : Muslims take Edessa and Crusaders nip over to the Holy Land but don't score an decent wins (1-1)

Third Crusade (1189-1192) : Saladin takes back Jerusalem, Richard 1 takes Acre but doesn't make it to Jerusalem. Sues for peace with Saladin, then gets kidnapped on the way home. (2-2)

Fourth Crusade (1201-1204) : Crusade highjacked by the Venetians who manage to divert the army from going to the Holy Land and score a massive own goal by sacking Constantinople instead (2-3)

Children's Crusade (1212) : Another own-goal as the French and Germans lead 37,000 kids into slavery without getting anywhere near the Holy Land (2-4)

Fifth Crusade (1217-1221) : Crusaders again fail to get Jerusalem back and after a win at Dalmietta get foiled by the Egyptians when have a go at Cairo (2-5)

Sixth Crusade (1228-1229) : In a radical departure of tactics, Emperor Frederick II negotiates a peace deal instead of using armed force which gives the Crusaders control of Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem (3-5)

Seventh Crusade (1248-1254) : Egyptians storm Jerusalem and the Crusaders fail to get it back (3-6)

Eighth Crusade (1270) : Crusaders go to aid Syria but end up in Tunis (3-7)

Ninth Crusade (1271-1272) : Crusaders lose Antioch, Tripoli and Acre and are left with no presence in Syria (3-8)

I would say that makes it a resounding win overall for the Muslims, not necessarily all due to their military prowess but often due to the incompetence and greed of the Christian forces.

Answer 2

Middle Age Crusades

Answer 3

Unless I miss my guess here, this is a school assignment, to be submitted when school starts again in January. If not, if this is your curiosity, congratulations on wanting to expand your knowlege base and on asking an important question.

First, the Middle Ages and the Crusades were not entirely concurrent.

As to who won, well, did anything that the crusaders do actually make a difference? Well, aside from developing the concept of biological weapons. (What else yould you call it? The Crusaders used catapaults to hurl dead animals into beseiged cities, so that the rotting flesh could attract all types of vermin, vermin that spread disease.)

To Europeans, the Crusades was a major enterprise. To the muslim world, they were a series of border skirmishes. Most muslims had no idea that any of this was going on.

And on the way to their destination, and on the way home again, with each Crusade, the Crusaders practiced their despicable brand of warfare on every non-chrisitan population that they came across. AKA, the Crusaders also developed the concept of pogroms.

All of these actions were simply the violent extension of proseltyzing.

As to the one Crusade that they europeans may have actually won, the one that involved a treaty? Well that treaty was signed by RIchard the Lionhearted and Saladdin. Saladdin and his muslim fighters kept their side of this treaty, which islam insisted and insists must happen. Real islam respects the concept of a treaty, and does not allow it to be broken. It does allow muslims to defend themselves if the other party breaks the treaty.

I'm giving you some book titles that will be an introduction for you to the Crusades. Please read them, and as you do, please keep in mind that many of the religious-based problems and intoleraces of today have their roots in the Crusades. Please use what you learn in these books as a starting point for your own education on the topic.

Answer 4

Overall the Muslims won. The First Crusade was a success for the Christians who created a kingdom of Jerusalem and other Crusader states in Palestine and modern Syria/Lebanon. Ultimately though these states were not able to survive being surrounded by hostile territories.

Answer 5

You'd have to say the Moslems.
But don't forget that the Crusader states set up after the First Crusade occupied virtually all territory of modern Israel, plus the Syrian coast and lasted virtually entire for 87 years. That's a record Israel still has to equal. Oh, and it was in the Middle Ages, so you were right first time.

Answer 6

the muslims of course.they were able to prevent the christians from getting their primary objective which was recapturing jerusalem and the holy land from the muslims.

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by Christians from 1095-1291, usually sanctioned by the Pope[1] in the name of Christendom,[2] with the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the sacred "Holy Land" from Muslim rule and originally launched in response to a call from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuq dynasty into Anatolia.[3][4]

Answer 7

The Christians only won one crusade, and they were only able to sustain control for a few years. The Muslims definitely won ant they still have their prizes: Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey, etc. Those areas used to be some of the strongest christian centers in the world.

Answer 8

There were 9 Crusades in all and no one won...During one of them, they stopped at somewhere in Italy and that town ripped off all thier money and could not complete the trip to the cusade and another Crusade was called the Childrens Crusade, because they sent children litterally to fight the war....Most of the children died and others, got away, and never made it home for what ever the many reasons where...

The Crusades where started by a miss understanding...

Answer 9

The Christains only had control of the city for a little while then the Muslims took back the city. Basically the muslims won overall.

Answer 10

The Muslims. The only time the Catholics won one was when there was a treaty before the battle even started. They then LOST that land when some idiot decided he wanted more and violated the treaty.