The Crusades In The 21st Century

The effect of the Crusades in the 21st century, they myths, and the facts that are difficult to understand about the Crusades continue to fascinate people in the present-day. In my essay I will be talking about myths associated with the Crusades which include the Children’s Crusade, the motivation of the Crusaders to take the cross in order to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims, and the pope called a Crusade against the Jews (Madden, 2002). The effect of the Crusades is the split of the Church into East and West that still exist today. The Crusades was a war between Christians and Muslims to reclaim the Holy Land. The relationship between the religious group has not fully recovered in the 21st century. The Holy Land which is present-day Jerusalem in the Middle East continue to exist and the region remained entirely Muslims today like it was during the Crusades. The facts that people have difficulty believing about the …show more content…
The division between the Eastern and Western Church still remain today. The division between the East and West happened when the Crusaders captured Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade. The conflict between the Muslims and Christians continue to exist today. People are still trying to figure out the tensions between Christians and Muslims all over the world. You would see tensions between the two religious groups in the West particularly in the United States and in African countries especially in the Middle East. The tension between the two religious groups come up over and over again. In the present-day there are persecutions of Christians in the Middle East in the hands of Muslims. The Crusades failed to secure the Holy Land for Christians in the long run which resulted in the Middle East and the around the Holy Land becoming mostly Muslims