On a popular level, the first crusades unleashed a wave of impassioned, personally felt pious Christian fury that was expressed in the massacres of Jews that accompanied the movement of the Crusader mobs through Europe, as well as the violent treatment of "schismatic" Orthodox Christians of the east. The violence against the Orthodox Christians culminated in the sack of Constantinople in 1204, in which most of the crusading armies took part. During many of the attacks on Jews, local Bishops and Christians made attempts to protect Jews from the mobs that were passing through. Jews were often offered sanctuary in churches and other Christian buildings, but the mobs broke in and killed them anyway.
In the 13th century, crusades never expressed such a popular fever, and after Acre fell for the last time in 1291, and after the extermination of the Occitan Cathars in the Albigensian Crusade, the crusading ideal became devalued by Papal justifications of political and territorial aggressions within Catholic Europe.
The last crusading order of knights to hold territory were the Knights Hospitaller. After the final fall of Acre, they took control of the island of Rhodes, and in the sixteenth century, were driven to Malta. These last crusaders were finally unseated by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798.
2007-06-11 04:18:37
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answered by TRACER ™ 6
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The Crusades stimulated the finished of Western civilization in the two solid and undesirable strategies. of course we are nevertheless seeing the comparable dynamics being performed out right this moment in "Christian" united statesa. backing Israel interior the Holy Land against the Muslims. that is affecting all and sundry now. however the Crusades are used to tutor that Christians are extra desirable than happy to justify killing on a grand scale, and do it interior the call of their god.
2016-10-08 22:56:31
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answered by ? 3
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If you meant "What were the effects of the Crusades?" and should have posted under History, 4star's answer is probably a good start.
If where you've actually posted is where you meant to post: Do you mean crusades for gay rights? Crusades against gays (also called pogroms) and/or against gay rights? Or what?
2007-06-12 04:10:33
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answered by georgetslc 7
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