Could someone expalain the crucades to me?

Question

I do not know a lot about the crucades but I was wondering if you could give me a little info into their past and an brief theory of why they occured.

Answer 1

Easy..the short answer is...the Church wanted to get the Muslims out of Jerusalem...they reasoned that since it was the home of Christ, and therefor holy to Christians that the Muslims didn'tt belong there.
Truth is, the Catholic Church needed a revival in religion, they needed to reunite all of Christendom, which had suffered a severance because of differing ideas in theology. With te fall of Byzantium, the Turkish Muslims (often called Moors) overran and conquered lands that had once belonged to Christian princes. They sought the power of Rome for help, and Rome obliged, seeing the crusades as a means to reconcile the Christian world under one Papal authority. This isn't the only reason, but it was the first reason...it began it all.
The sites below give some great history on the crusades...

Answer 2

The Crusades were a series of military conflicts of a religious character waged by Christians from 1095-1291, usually sanctioned by the Pope in the name of Christendom, 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.

The term is also used to describe contemporaneous and subsequent campaigns conducted through the 16th century in territories outside of the Levant, usually against pagans[citation needed] and those considered by the Catholic Church to be heretics, for a mixture of religious, economic, and political reasons. The traditional numbering scheme for the Crusades includes the nine major expeditions to the Holy Land during the 11th to 13th centuries. Other unnumbered "crusades" continued into the 16th century, lasting until the political and religious climate of Europe was significantly changed during the Renaissance and Reformation.

The Children's Crusade was not a military campaign but probably a popular uprising in France and/or Germany, possibly with the intention of reaching the Holy Land in order to peacefully convert Muslims there to Christianity.

The Crusades had far-reaching political, economic, and social impacts, some of which have lasted into contemporary times. Because of internal conflicts among Christian kingdoms and political powers, some of the crusade expeditions (such as the Fourth Crusade) were diverted from their original aim and resulted in the sack of Christian cities, including the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. The Sixth Crusade was the first crusade to set sail without the official blessing of the Church, thus setting a precedent allowing other rulers to independently call for crusades on subsequent expeditions to the Holy land. Internal conflicts between Muslim kingdoms and political powers also meant alliances with one faction against the other such as the one with the Sultanate of Rum during the Fifth Crusade.

Answer 3

There were 7 crusades fought for many reasons. Usually it was for political/monetary gain but they hid it behind religion. These sites might help you.

http://www.medievalcrusades.com/
http://crusades.boisestate.edu/
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1k.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades

Answer 4

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