HIS 101-03
10/23/2013
Crusades
They were many kinds of
crusades but most of them deal with a religion as an excuse. These crusades
that are mentioned will be about Christianity. Also of the last crusade which
was to many the worst of them. I believe that even during this time period
there were those who strived for power and wealth and during these crusades
they were able to do things that they would not have been allowed, for example
they were cases of some soldiers who performed adultery (having sex with
another woman that is not ones wife) and they were told that their sins were
gone. Though they were not many cases that have been proven but they were still
those that were even if it was a small number. These crusades were for the lord
(God) that they believed; they were trying to gain the land that was sacred to
them regardless of what would happen they would even pillage towns and kill
those they suspect that did not believe in their religion.
Going in order, I
believe during the first crusade the Pope during that time wanted to reclaim
the land which was sacred to them, which was Jerusalem and it is also a holy
place for Muslims to. During this crusade they took a long way, the reason
behind this is so the soldiers could kill the Jews and Muslims because they did
not view God the same way as they do. So under the Pope they used this power to
kill those that, maybe, did not have anything to do with this crusade all
together. Though this crusade was
started by the Pope, he did not attend but he did however appointed people to
lead the armies. It is needless to say that after this crusade ended they won back
their sacred land but soon after they lose it again.
The second crusade took
place between 1147 and 1149. Unlike the First Crusade, which was led by counts
and dukes, the Second Crusade was led by a man named St. Bernard. It was to my amazement
that when I discovered the Second Crusade had very little amount of
organization and planning involved. During this crusade they failed to reclaim
land that was lost.
The third crusade, I did
not really care for much because to me it all seemed like humans were just
going insane, trying to get something.
The last crusade dealed
with only farmers and workers, they wanted to gain not land but just material
things they marched in cities and killed the citizens for no “supposedly” righteous
reason like all the others had done. This crusade was very morbid in the
thought that a revolt of like a lower class (farmers and such) because they got
tired of living the way they did.
All in all these crusades
were in my opinion was pointless.
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