Why Do People Use The Crusades?

Imagine thousands of people attacking for you beliefs. Being burned alive, tortured, and turned into slaves. These are concepts that many, especially Muslims, encountered in the Crusades. Most would say the Crusades were religious, but they weren’t in reality. They were absolutely terrifying and always ended in tragedy for at least one side. In the beginning, life was fine for Christians to easily take a pilgrimage to the Holy Land because the Muslims liked the profit they made off of the travelers, and they honestly didn’t really care. It wasn’t until the Turks took over making a slight complication for the Christians, not safely letting them go along to do their own thing. This made many people angry and started the thought of the Crusades.It may have been driven by religous freedom, but in the thought processk, someone must have thought ‘Lets say it’s for God, but in reality to give us more power over what we want’.It became a power high over the Christians. You could easily dominate a city or a
“The Crusaders took over many of the cities on the Mediterranean Coast…”(The Crusades 1095-1291) including a special place, Acre. It was the “effective capital of the Crusaders since the end of the third Crusade”(The Crusades facts and summary). Once Acre fell, it “effectively ended the Crusades in the Holy Land after two centuries”(The Crusades facts and summary). As mentioned before, the victories of the Holy Land rotated on and off, but in reality neither side won. Both sides lost many people, and injured thousands just because “God said so”. If the Christians were smart, they could’ve allied with the muslims to keep the land for each other, but who could team up with the “enemy”. The Jewish ended up with the Holy Land as Legally