The First Crusades

The Crusades were military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the

11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. Due to the actions that

were taking place, a holy war undertook on behalf of a religious cause.

For the last four decades, the Crusades played an important role in history. During the

year of 1095, armies of Christians from the western part of Europe responded to Pope Urban II’s

order to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land. As soon as the first Crusades

achieved its goal with the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, ravaged Christians were out to set up set

up several Latin Christian states. Although there are crucial components that have been made

along the way

Sooner or later members of the military would take traditional religious vows,

morality, and obedience but have a commitment to violence on behalf of the Christian faith.

Orders of the military developed ministerial roles and went on to form important roles that

continue to exist today in the nation states.

Further throughout the decade’s, countries have spread out and have become their own.

Europe was able to part take in territorial expansion first. In result of the first Crusades it

developed into the formation of progressive states in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean. The

Crusader states was populated by settlers from Europe and then eventually became governed on

its own. Crusading began from North to Eastern Europe, prior to the spread it did eventually lead

up to new Kingdoms with new political views and government rules making a change to the

Kingdom and people surrounded around the Kingdom. In effect to Crusading there have been

discoveries of new countries and states. This event helped settlers find new places to settle down

and live.

Progressive Crusaders were major supporters of the Catholic church community. For one

thing Catholic churches were aligned with monarchy throughout the middle ages. With