What lead to the crusade?

Answer 1

What lead to the Crusade was for many reasons actually.

- economical issues

- land

Minor things in those days. But the main reason was for the holy land t get back to the people of the town. The Crusades was all this fighting. They were even fighting christian cities against christian cities just for their Holy Land back.

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Medieval Europe was strucured on a war economy. Only the lowest class of people worked at the production of food, the ruling class lived for war and provided greater social status for the men who served in their armies. Without war there was no means to improve your position and you still had to maintain your means to make war. At the same time war could be ruinous to the population so a form of control similar to the United Nations had developed whereby the Pope would intervene in disputes, either demanding an end to a war or by siding with one side enabling them to gain so much support from other countries that victory would be certain.

The Crusades were an oppertunity to allow Western kings to deploy their military might outside of the European theatre and therefore not causing damage to the complex system of Christian alliances with the church.

By allowing the Eupopean armies to fight the Muslim in the Middle East, the Pope didn't have to balance the need for them to fight each other against the support he might lose for himself.

If Christian Armies could plunder the Holy Land then they would all get rich and be contented not to try and destroy each other, forcing him to take sides in every dispute.