What was the aftermath of the crusades?

Question

more like the crusades between 1096 and 1204

Answer 1

The Crusaders sailed east (primarily from England, France, and the German states) in a holy fervor, defeated the local powers, and established several short-lived kingdoms in the Levant (present-day Syria/Jordan/Lebanon/Israel). They were eventually overthrown and the lands reclaimed by the Muslims (Turk and Egyptians for the most part).

Several major knightly orders were established at this time, most notably the Templars and also the Hospitallers.

One of the Crusades got lazy and decided heading all the way to the Holy Land was not only too tough but also real expensive, so they settled for attacking Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) of the Byzantine Empire instead. Since the Byzantines were Greek Orthodox and not Catholic, the Crusaders figured this was okay. I seem to recall that the Republic of Venice kinda egged them on.

Answer 2

The pope called for a crusade to take the Holy Land back from the Muslims, who were encroaching on the territory. However, people WENT on the crusade for many reasons. Religion was the main excuse, but some people went to seek fortune and get away from serfdom in Europe. The crusaders won because the Muslims didn't realize how brutal they were going to be and weren't prepared. After the first one, things went downhill pretty fast for the crusaders.

Answer 3

The Crusades militarily were a loss for Christian Europe. However, the aftermath was Europe became aware of places outside Europe. Goods brought back to Europe by Crusaders stimulated trade and lead to the growth of the Italian trading cities. This contact re-introduced Greco-Roman Culture to Europe lost with the fall of Rome. These new ideas in areas such as philosophy (humanism) and art began the Renaissance which ended the Middle Ages and Feudalism as Europe's economy moved from one based on land to one based on money. Later, when the exapnsion of the Ottoman Turks cut off the trade routes, the search for new routes lead to the discovery of the Americas. One hell of an aftermath if you ask me.

Answer 4

A lot of agreement with william k. In addition, after the 4th crusade sacked constantinople, it fractured Byzantine strength, allowing it to finally permanently fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.

Answer 5

Thanks to the eight Holy Crusades, the racist and imperialist warmongering muslims were prevented from entering Western Europe and were forced to remain in Andalusia (southern Spain), North Africa, the Mid-East, and parts of India, instead of murdering their way across the entire European continent in the name of their false God as every Mullah swore to do.

The muslims swore to put every Christian to the sword and to kill the Pope in the Vatican: The Koran or the Sword, was the Mohammedian battlecry as they tried to sweep over all of Northern Europe, but, again, the eight Holy Crusades prevented that! Thank GOD for the Crusades!

Answer 6

The muslims came against the Christians and they fought back. If they hadn't most of Europe would be muslim today.
Thousands died protecting Europe from muslim extremists.
Christians wanted Jersaleum thinking it was holy ground.
The muslims felt the same way. So they fought much like they are doing still today. No one wins.
It is just a piece of ground.

Answer 7

Lots of dead people. Nothing really got settled. They never found what they were after, they just killed a lot of innocent people.

Answer 8

They continue to this day - in simply a different form.

Answer 9

Bad movies...