Were The Christian Crusades: Good Or Evil?
The Crusades were defined as several ‘holy wars’ against the Muslims and Christians all crammed in one all staining medieval history forever. Many of the Crusades incidents are recorded as major and some minor causing many to wonder if the result of the Crusades more negative or positive. The Crusades were obviously more negative than positive because of amount of religious hatred and how the Christian Crusades showed their aggression. The Crusades left a ‘legacy’ from the on appalling religious hatred they showed and had opposing religions and in very few cases even fellow Christians. They were not a peaceful group of people that would let things slide easily. Document seven states, “...the crusading knights often abused and committed
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If the Crusades were not happy about how something was resulting or not happy about not winning one of the several wars they had,they would destroy anything in sight to the opposing people. This included destroying many things that weren’t theirs like land and killing thousands of inconnect people. Document one provides more information by saying, “In Europe, crusades sometimes turned their fury against Jews, massacring entire communities.” This is extremely interesting because the Crusades showed aggression or fury to a religion by killing innocent people, but they also did it to a religion other than their enemies at the time, the Muslims. They turned their voice into fear and their voice was killing and destroying all in sight if anyone didn’t listen or made them mad. Also in document four says, “...the crusaders and the Venetians stormed in Constantinople, sacked the city, destroying its magnificent library, and grabbed thousands of relics that were later sold in Europe. From the destruction, the Byzantine Empire as a political unit never recovered.” This is fascinating because the Crusades took the items and later sold them as their own and destroyed a library that meant a lot to the Byzantine Empire. Not only that, but the it said that the Byzantine Empire would never politically recover since this unknown reason for the
If the Crusades were not happy about how something was resulting or not happy about not winning one of the several wars they had,they would destroy anything in sight to the opposing people. This included destroying many things that weren’t theirs like land and killing thousands of inconnect people. Document one provides more information by saying, “In Europe, crusades sometimes turned their fury against Jews, massacring entire communities.” This is extremely interesting because the Crusades showed aggression or fury to a religion by killing innocent people, but they also did it to a religion other than their enemies at the time, the Muslims. They turned their voice into fear and their voice was killing and destroying all in sight if anyone didn’t listen or made them mad. Also in document four says, “...the crusaders and the Venetians stormed in Constantinople, sacked the city, destroying its magnificent library, and grabbed thousands of relics that were later sold in Europe. From the destruction, the Byzantine Empire as a political unit never recovered.” This is fascinating because the Crusades took the items and later sold them as their own and destroyed a library that meant a lot to the Byzantine Empire. Not only that, but the it said that the Byzantine Empire would never politically recover since this unknown reason for the