Medieval Crusades

The crusades started in 1095, when armed forces of Christians from Western Europe answered to Pope Urban II’s accepted to go the conflict against the Muslim armies in the Holy Land of Palestine. The first crusade accomplished its goal to get the hold of Jerusalem in 1099, after Christians who captured Jerusalem, set up several Latin Christian States, the Muslims tried to create a campaign for a holy war to get the control of the region. The crusades did lots of good things to the Christian people in Jerusalem and they kept Muslims away from conquering the area. The three positive impacts of the Medieval Crusades are impact on the catholic church, territorial expansion, and Crusades along the commands of spiritual nobles and the knights templar.

The crusades had an important part in European territorial development. The first crusade brings in the construction of the crusader nation to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean, they were immediately ruled, and in minor areas were occupied, by the immigrants from Europe. Campaigning in northern and eastern Europe directed to total population of the territories like Denmark and Sweden, in addition to the formation of newly political units. The regions near the Baltic sea was conquered by the crusaders, traders, and immigrants, they were mostly Germans, they took control of these areas and bring in finance that helps the area. Near the Mediterranean Sea, crusades subjugation and assumption of control and establishment of various islands, this really helped to confirm Christian power of Mediterranean trade direction for long as the island were in control of Christian power. Campaign also played a part in the subjugation of the Iberian Peninsula, now which is called Spain and Portugal. This act was finished in 1492, after the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella II occupied the former Muslim municipal on the peninsula, the place is called the town of Granada. The people of the peninsula also deprived Jews from the nation during the same time. they approved and reinforced the journey of Christopher Columbus, he was European traveler of his time, they thought that developing of Christian faith was his job (Throop, The Impact

The crusades gave high importance to the knight’s arrangements, the Knight Templar, the Teutonic nobles, and a member of a charitable religious order. The orders were given by the religious knight, monks or other follower of a monastic rule to secure the holy land and to protect pilgrims arriving to the holy land. The associates of the commands of religious nobles were monks and knights, to the monastic solemnly promise of the state or practice of refraining from extramarital, poverty, the state of being extremely poor, and conformity they attached a fourth solemnly promise, which is a leaping movement them to guard pilgrims and fight the people who doesn’t believe in religion or who adheres to a religion other than one's own. The Medieval time saw the development of a army order named the Poor Fellow-Defense force of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. The name was given to them was to become the Templar Knights, or the arrangements of Knights Templar (Alchin,