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The pope told them to and they thought they were fighting for God's holy city!
an increase in European education and thought
The Crusades did have some benefits... crusaders found riches and brought lots of building ideas. From a Crusader's point of view, they were very beneficial because they were fighting for their religion and they thought it was their divine purpose of life.
Well, they didn't really help with the deaths and all... but it did promote religion quite a bit. I mean, the Crusades were mostly the cause of the fight over which gets the Holy Land, the Muslims or the Christians... and the Crusaders thought it helped a lot because they were, you know, fighting for and serving their faith and religion.
they thought they where fat, posh buffoon's.
feudal fighting
The pope told them to and they thought they were fighting for God's holy city!
an increase in European education and thought
The Crusades did have some benefits... crusaders found riches and brought lots of building ideas. From a Crusader's point of view, they were very beneficial because they were fighting for their religion and they thought it was their divine purpose of life.
Well, they didn't really help with the deaths and all... but it did promote religion quite a bit. I mean, the Crusades were mostly the cause of the fight over which gets the Holy Land, the Muslims or the Christians... and the Crusaders thought it helped a lot because they were, you know, fighting for and serving their faith and religion.
Crusades did not allow women to fight because people only thought that women were to work in the manor.
People died, so there were no soldiers to fight in the crusades, so the crusades fell apart. Also many soldiers returned home to find their family taken by the plague. It also broke the religious will of the soldiers. Many were fighting because they were trying to please the Pope and God. They thought God sent the plague, so He must not like the crusadce
The Crusades did have some benefits... crusaders found riches and brought lots of building ideas. From a Crusader's point of view, they were very beneficial because they were fighting for their religion and they thought it was their divine purpose of life.
Prejudice against the Jews has been deeply embedded in European culture and thought since at least the days of the crusades. In the period c. 1918-1950 Jews were widely thought of as Communists.
they thought they where fat, posh buffoon's.
The West learned more about Islamic thought.
Christians back then, as you charmingly put it, thought that the crusades were absolutely correct and just, attempting as they were to regain control of the Holy Land for the Christian world from the barbaric Mohammedans.