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A 3 page paper which briefly examines the
causes and consequences of the Crusades. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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causes. In the popular imagination, the Crusades have come to be associated with the series of wars waged by Western Christians against Muslims in the Near East from 1095 to
1291" (Caferro, 2003). In truth, the Crusades were incredibly complex due to the fact that many different people approached the war from different perspectives. Some were seriously concerned with bringing
the word of Christianity to the rest of the world while others were merely intent on destroying those who did not believe, or perhaps were only interested in obtaining those
trade goods that could only be found in the East. And, add on to that the fact that there were actually eight official Crusades and we find the subject incredibly
complicated. Bearing in mind the complexity of this subject the following paper briefly examines the causes of the Crusades and then discusses some of the consequences of the Crusade, for
good or bad. Causes "The causes for the wars are complex. In addition to standards such as piety, adventure, and greed, historians have adduced numerous other explanations, including
the desire of the still-weak papacy to extend its authority and seize the moral leadership of Christendom and, ironically, the culmination of the peace movement aimed at limiting private warfare
among the nobility of northern Europe. From the Muslim perspective, the appearance of Christian crusaders in their lands was a perplexing but hardly novel event" (Caferro, 2003). This is because
most of the Muslim people had a tendency to see that the Crusades was nothing more than "a continuation of the Christian expansionist imperialism that they had experienced previously in
Spain and in southern Italy and Sicily" (Caferro, 2003). Despite the complexity and confusing nature of the Crusades it is generally agreed that "The initial conflict was sparked by
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