quickly defeated them. This ended Muslim resistance to the Crusaders for the time (“Jerusalem Captured in First Crusade”). The news of this miraculous event started to spread from Jerusalem all the way back to Europe. Now that the Crusaders took back their holy lands, Christians could go on their journeys of faith and have no fears of death. Sadly, the news never made it back to Pope Urban II. Urban passed away in 1099, only two weeks after the capture of Jerusalem (“Pope Urban II Orders First Crusade”). He would never learn about how his revolution to take back the Holy Lands became a success. Crusaders, after capturing Jerusalem, set up a number of Crusader states in the Holy Lands. However, these kingdoms didn 't have the necessary army
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Glory, fame, and fortune was desired by elite knights and kings. Temptation by the increase land and riches caught the intention of European Nobles (“Pope Urban II Orders First Crusade”). What started to affect these ideas became the lone fact that the Crusades started to become unsuccessful. This meant that future popes would need to increase the benefits to continue to gain soldiers. They knew that they could keep throwing in more and more. They did this instantly. In order to continue to battle the Muslims in the Holy Lands, they needed to continue to recruit and gain forces. Over time the Church added the benefits which they called “Earthly Rewards”. Faith rewards included forgiveness of sins and certain fulfillments. Earthly rewards consisted of riches from battle, erasing of debts, freedom from taxes, glory, and power (“Digital Collections for the Classroom”). Who wouldn 't join the war on the Muslims? People reaped the Crusades for all it was worth. In the earliest of times, the church used propaganda to manipulate people to go to war. At the beginning of the Crusades, the Church only used God to recruit, however, as time went on and the war continued, Church and political leaders found different methods to guarantee more rewards, above the spiritual aspect, to promote turnout. Rewards encompassed protection of property and family and cleared all …show more content…
Trade throughout the continent of Europe and across the Mediterranean sea grew alarmingly fast. Compulsion in Eastern Europe lifestyle rose and gave rise to the intellectual awakening known as Scholasticism, which gave birth to the first major university in the entire world (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). This pushed Europe to the rise of schools, and knowledge in education and the surrounding world around them became a factor in European life more than before. Before the Crusades began, Europe did not truly have the same might as it did afterwards. The Crusades gave way to nations rising up and building up their militaries and kingdoms from it. The Crusades effectively broke down feudalism, and from it the great nations of Europe came to life (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). Even though the Crusades effectively helped bring Europe into power overall, it also caused major problem and had costs, like every war. The Crusades cost a large amount of lives and ended in the loss of many relics and other prideful pieces of Christian history (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). The biggest problem out of all of it, the Crusades were overall unsuccessful in accomplishing their overall task. Western Christianity never fully retook the Holy Lands (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). Currently, there are still
Glory, fame, and fortune was desired by elite knights and kings. Temptation by the increase land and riches caught the intention of European Nobles (“Pope Urban II Orders First Crusade”). What started to affect these ideas became the lone fact that the Crusades started to become unsuccessful. This meant that future popes would need to increase the benefits to continue to gain soldiers. They knew that they could keep throwing in more and more. They did this instantly. In order to continue to battle the Muslims in the Holy Lands, they needed to continue to recruit and gain forces. Over time the Church added the benefits which they called “Earthly Rewards”. Faith rewards included forgiveness of sins and certain fulfillments. Earthly rewards consisted of riches from battle, erasing of debts, freedom from taxes, glory, and power (“Digital Collections for the Classroom”). Who wouldn 't join the war on the Muslims? People reaped the Crusades for all it was worth. In the earliest of times, the church used propaganda to manipulate people to go to war. At the beginning of the Crusades, the Church only used God to recruit, however, as time went on and the war continued, Church and political leaders found different methods to guarantee more rewards, above the spiritual aspect, to promote turnout. Rewards encompassed protection of property and family and cleared all …show more content…
Trade throughout the continent of Europe and across the Mediterranean sea grew alarmingly fast. Compulsion in Eastern Europe lifestyle rose and gave rise to the intellectual awakening known as Scholasticism, which gave birth to the first major university in the entire world (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). This pushed Europe to the rise of schools, and knowledge in education and the surrounding world around them became a factor in European life more than before. Before the Crusades began, Europe did not truly have the same might as it did afterwards. The Crusades gave way to nations rising up and building up their militaries and kingdoms from it. The Crusades effectively broke down feudalism, and from it the great nations of Europe came to life (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). Even though the Crusades effectively helped bring Europe into power overall, it also caused major problem and had costs, like every war. The Crusades cost a large amount of lives and ended in the loss of many relics and other prideful pieces of Christian history (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). The biggest problem out of all of it, the Crusades were overall unsuccessful in accomplishing their overall task. Western Christianity never fully retook the Holy Lands (“Final Crusades and Final Results (The Crusades part 6.)”). Currently, there are still