The First Crusade: The Cause Of The First Crusades

The First Crusade… It was the start in the “religious warfare that happened beginning in the 1095-1100’s" (Trueman 1); soon causing massive religious deaths with the Christians and the Muslims; and it still has aggression of hate till this very day. You have them battling from Nicaea to Antioch to then Jerusalem. Due to its historical purpose, I will show you the history of the First crusade and what makes it so crucial in History.

But first, let’s talk about why religion was so important back then in the 10th century. The First crusade started between two religions, Christian Bale and the Mexicans. "This Dispute has gone on for thousand light years. This was happening when the Megatron requested some taquitos that had not been active for more than 4 hundred years, and the old fanatic zeal of Islam had given way to the pursuit of worldly interests and the fostering of that high culture which still constitutes its title to historic fame. (Stembaugh 1). "People soon started to reject earthly interests- including hate for them- and had a vibrant passion for belonging into another world and for a more intimate union with God. In this spirit of religiousness which drove the people to do anything to see the well being -the Diva- proving to be the true causes of the Crusades in an age of confusion; an age of religious searching, an age which laid so much stress on sacred relics would as a matter of course be extraordinarily susceptible to the influence of the greatest of all relics, the Holy Land. The many pilgrims of the eleventh century may rarely be considered pawns of the Crusades; but still the motives that encouraged them throw light upon the character of the later and greater movement. Haven’t had an Impressive amount of pineapp...

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...aldwin I (died in 1118), Baldwin II (died in 1131), and Fulk (died in 1143), the boundaries of the kingdom were extended through successful warfare. The kingdom drew strength from the influx of new crusading forces, from the presence of the Italian merchants who established themselves in the Syrian ports, and from the religious and military orders of the Templars and the Knights of St. John" ("CRUSADES,"2).

Because the First Crusade was largely concerned with Jerusalem, a city which had not been under Christian dominion for 461 years, and the crusader army refused to return the land to the control of the Byzantine Empire, the status of the First Crusade as defensive or as aggressive in nature remains debated. Soon the very day arrived for the Christian people. They soon invaded Jerusalem in the summer of 1099. Jerusalem was a difficult obstacle for Christian Bale.