How Did The Crusades Impact The World?

At one point or another in their life everybody has felt what it feels like to want something so bad they would go to extreme lengths to get it. Maybe it was stealing something from a store, or lying to a parent in order to go out with friends. For the Muslims, Jews, and Christians from 1096 AD- 1200 AD, they would go to extreme lengths in order to have power over Jerusalem, the Holy Land for all three of these religions. These three would persecute, rape, and even kill each other in order to own the Holy Land. The Crusades had a more negative than positive effect on the world because people all over the world were persecuted for their religion.

One example as to why the crusades overall had a negative effect on the world is because many Christians and Muslims all over the world were persecuted. Pope Urban II writes in his Call to Crusade speech, “Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows… What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women?” In this excerpt from the Pope’s speech he explains just some of the horrid things the Muslims have done to the Christians. The Muslims just kept on persecuting the Christians because they thought that if they did they would retain ownership of Jerusalem, the Holy Land.
In a poem written by Abu I- Musaffar al Abiwardi, a poet during this time of war, he states, “We have mingled blood with flowing tears, and there is no room left for pity.” What Abiwardi means by this statement is that since the Christians have hurt them so badly that this is all the more reason to start defending themselves. Again, all of these actions the Christians have made against the Muslims are solely for the reason that they want to recapture the holy land. In the end, all that matters to either side of the argument is to retain or recapture Jerusalem, not to impact the world positively in any