Crusades are failures?

Question

Explain why the Crusades might be considered the greatest successful failure of all time

Answer 1

It was a very late response to the muslim takeover of most of the world, so it was destined to fail.

Answer 2

Well why is this in the movies section and not the history section under Arts and Humanities?

Alright first off why did the Europeans fight the crusades? To claim the Holy Land, to convert the Musilums, and to get really rich are the main reasons. Well, the knights understood the last part and did a good job of looting and trading for spices and art to sell back home.

The problems were that the Musilums were better educated (more doctors with better techniques in healing means fewer inexperienced fighters), better climatized to the region (you try wearing 50 lbs of metal in the desert), and just as devout in their faith as the Europeans. Then add in the logistics of fighting that far away from home (transportation, time to get supplies and replacement troops, etc) and you see it was not a likely victory.

That was what they face back then. These days, jets will get you there in hours instead of months or years. Communication is almost at the speed of light and WE ARE NOT FIGHTING A CRUSADE. We are liberating people from totalitarian governments and hunting for terrorist who threaten our lives.

Answer 3

Are you kidding? Go look at the childrens crusades. Yes! Kidnap poor orphan children and send them off to slaughter in the name of the lord! That is so totally EXACTLY what Jesus would have wanted. All the crusades were successful in getting peoples mentality towards their religion "why, we must reclaim the holy land! God wants it!" but it was a huge failure in the fact that it was pointless and cause MORE then unnessicary deaths, they were horribly expensive, in military terms the attempts were completely pathetic...so many reasons for them being a huge mistake...