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The pope made a very moving speech, which inspired many people including the peasants and encouraged them to fight if they were religious, saying that all they're sins would be atoned for.

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Why was joining a crusade so attractive to peasants?

Peasants saw joining a crusade as a way to escape their harsh living conditions, find adventure, and potentially gain wealth and social status. The promise of forgiveness for their sins and the opportunity to secure a place in heaven also influenced their decision to join crusades.


Why was joining a crusade so popular among peasants?

Peasants wanted to join crusades because it gave them legitimacy and representation. Otherwise, they were too poor and meaningless to have representation on their own.


What do you think was the most important effect of the crusades on the entire civilized world?

In short, Pope Urban II wanted to capture the Holy Land from the Turkish Muslims, and he preached vigourously on it, even going so far as to say joining in the crusades would ensure salvation. Soon many peasants had begun their own unofficial crusade, known as the "Peasants Crusade". The emotionaly unstable mob was slaughtered by the Turkish Muslims very easily. The official crusade is called the "First Crusade" [1096-1099] and it had great European nobles at the front. This crusade captured Asia Minor for the emperor Alexius Comenus, recaptured Jerusalem, and also a strip of land on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterrainean Sea. The "Second Crusade"s [1147-1149] goal was to attack Damascus (which actually was friendly to the Crusaders), but it failed miserably. In 1187, Muslims again took control over Jerusalem, leading to the "Third Crusade" [1189-1192] also known as the "Crusade of Kings". This crusade accomplished very little. The "Fourth Crusade" [1202-1204] didn't even reach the Holy Land, but attacked Constantinople. The "Children's Crusade" [1212] was utterly ridiculous in that the entire group consisted of children that marched toward the Mediterranean, hoping that God would divide the waters for them, instead, were tricked by slave traders, and sold to North African Muslims. The other crusades after this also accomplished nothing. In all, most of the crusades were irrational and unreasonable. What they DID do was open up trade with europe and the orient some years later.


What did peasants have fun with?

Other peasants, which is why there were so many of them.


Why was the first crusade so successful?

The first crusade was so successful, because the muslim defenders were so un unified.


What were roman peasants called?

....im gonna guess Peasants. I'm not really sure. Roman Peasants seems likes a retarted name.....so just Peasants i guess.


What is meant by scores of peasants?

A score is twenty people. So a whole bunch of peasants.


Why were peasants in Europe dependent upon nobles?

Were everyone peasants, there would be no peasants.


How did geography influence the peasants of the french revolution?

Royalty ruled and had many estates and castles so peasants lived in shacks and such. The geographyb was very different for peasants


How premchand depicts the life of peasants in the novel?

He showed that all peasants are foolish so they are brutally suffered.


Is beard scruff attractive?

No he/it is not attractive at all what so ever


How did the Chinese peasants compare to other peasants in the post-classical era?

Peasants were similar throughout the world, but in China there was no modern technology so working in the fields were a lot harder.