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An 8 page discussion of the Crusades. Details exactly what the Crusades were and identifies their goal as gaining control of the Holy Land for Christians. Concludes that, while the Crusades were unsuccessful in accomplishing this goal, they had tremendous economic impacts upon Western civilization. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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occurred during a period in history labeled the European Middle Ages. This period is defined as that period extending between the year 1050 and the year 1320. This
was a period of tremendous changes in western Europe, particularly in population, demography, economics, politics, and military structure and alliances. Military aspects of the Medieval Period were underscored by
militant religious zeal. The crusades played a tremendous role in these changes. Moore (PG) notes:
"...the establishment of Outremer was only the most striking example of the way the warrior aristocrats, clerical elite and urban merchants of the Latin West could combine forces,
often in the complete absence of monarchical orchestration, to produce new polities and new settlements".
The reasons why men chose to join the Crusades revolved around the Church. Crusading was an inherent part of the system of values which had been disseminated among the
lay aristocracy (Moore PG). Conquest was, of course a necessary part of the construction of the new world and the reconstruction of the old (Moore(b) PG).
For hundreds of years pilgrims from Western Europe had been journeying to the Holy Land, Palestine, where Jesus Christ had lived and died (Wallbank,
Taylor and Bailkey 187). There had been no problems for the visitors as the area was under the control of the Byzantine Empire which was a Greek Christian empire
located in southeastern Europe (Wallbank, Taylor and Bailkey 187). In the 600s A.D. the Holy Land was captured by Arab Muslims, however, the new rulers did not interfere with
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