How Did The Crusades Change The World

The Crusades were a series of four Holy Wars that that were intended to reestablish Roman Catholic Christianity in the eastern Mediterranean basin. The Crusades are also referred as the expeditions that Roman Catholic Christians mounted in the effort to recapture Palestine, the land of Christian origins, and the holy city Jerusalem from Muslim authorities. The Crusades were ruthless, bloody and violent wars that disrupted the western hemisphere for over 200 years. Even though that the Crusades brought violence and death to the world there were many positive aspects that came from the Crusades. Through the wars, The Crusades brought the exchange of ideas and products between Christian Europe and Islamic Mediterranean, which have never happen before and with the crusades brought great interest of Islamic products and cultural ideas into Christian Europe. The Crusades caused great change in the trading word of the …show more content…
I don't believe that this product changed the development of the environment during this time, but the ideas that were brought and the goods that were traded made it easier for the lower classes of European society to experience good, such as spices and sugars that were once only for the wealthy people of European society. The Crusades did bring the desire to dig and mine for pressures gems and metals that Europeans and Latin’s used to trade for the spices and silks. The Crusades also brought the desire for exploration because instead of trading with the Muslims, people wanted to go straight the source of these goods, such the expiation to explore and create trade routs from the Europe to places such as China and India. This is how the Crusades brought interest of Islamic products and cultural ideas into Christian