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No, Catholics started the Crusades because the Ottomans were terrorizing the Catholics who went on pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Ottomans were also attacking the Eastern Roman Empire.

Some crusaders, instead of going to the Holy Land, slaughtered Jews. Some crusaders did both.

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Who was the Crusader's foe?

The crusaders foes where the Muslims and Jews.


How did some Jews react to being attacked by crusaders?

The Crusades were holy wars between Christians and Muslims. not Jews.


What impact did the crusaders have on Jewish population of Europe?

The Crusades were rising hostility to the Jews. More and More Christians believed that all non-Christians were their enemy. On their way to Palestine, some Crusaders massacred European Jews and continued the killing in Palestine. After the Crusades, Jews were expelled from England in 1290 and from France in 1306 and again in 1394. Many of these Jews moved to eastern Europe. Many Crusaders who stayed in Palestine came to respect Muslims, but Cristian tolerance toward Jews continued.


What happened between Christians and Jews in the late 1000's?

The First Crusade was in 1096. In it, thousands of Jews were killed by the Christian crusaders.


Who were the crusaders in medieval time?

Christians Muslims and Jews all to claim the holy lands-Jerusalem.


Why did the Jews leave the Holy Land?

Jews were forced out by armed invaders. The Babylonians invaded, sacked Jerusalem, and forced Jews into exile. Some stayed in Babylon while others returned from exile. The Roman empire sacked Jerusalem and forced Jews into exile and slavery, and did not allow Jews to return to Jerusalem until the Islamic conquest, when some returned. The Crusaders slaughtered essentially all of the Jews of Jerusalem, driving many Jewish refugees from the Crusader kingdoms. After the Crusaders were defeated, some Jews returned.


Why the crusaders attacked Palestine?

They didn't exactly 'attack Palestine'. The mission of the Christian Crusaders was torescue the Holy Land from the hands of whoever was there and was not Christian.They generally slaughtered any Muslims and Jews they met on the way.


How were Jews affected by the crusaders?

Crusaders were disbatched by the Roman Catholic Church to drive back the Muslim who had invaded Europe. The Crusaders were encouraged by the Pagan Catholic Church to kill Jews along with the Muslims. The Roman Catholic Church has persecuted God's chosen people from it's inception and officially since the Council of Laodicea in 364 AD, when it published it's 60 cannons, #29 states Christians caught Judaizing on Shabbat will be killed.


What did crusaders do to Muslims and Jews when they captured Jerusalem?

The Crusaders came to liberate the Holy Land from the "infidels" and woe to any Jews who lived along the route. Numerous Jewish communites encountered by traveling Crusaders were subjected to the increased religious fervor of the Crusaders, and were pillaged and massacred. There were several extensive pogroms, especially in Germany and France. When the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade, they initiated a massive slaughter of the Jewish and Muslim inhabitants of the city.


What did the crusaders do to the Jews they encountered on their way to the holy land?

Crusaders were disbatched by the Roman Catholic Church to drive back the Muslim who had invaded Europe. The Crusaders were encouraged by the Pagan Catholic Church to kill Jews along with the Muslims. The Roman Catholic Church has persecuted God's chosen people from it's inception and officially since the Council of Laodicea in 364 AD, when it published it's 60 cannons, #29 states Christians caught Judaizing on Shabbat will be killed.


One reason crusaders fought was to?

The Crusaders fought in order to retake the land of Palestine and specifically Jerusalem, for their ideals. In so doing, they killed large numbers of Muslims, and tens of thousands of non-combatant Jews.


What did the crusaders call the Mulsims and why?

They called the non-Christians (mostly Muslims, but also Jews and other minorities) a number of things, mostly "infidels".