The

philosophers of the Age of Reason called

the Middle Ages the Age of Faith, and claimed
that because God did it! was the answer to
everything, no one searched for natural laws.
The

Middle ages could be classified as many

different ages, from the Dark Ages, to the Golden
Age.
It

could also be known as the Age of faith, and

the Age of feudalism.
The

attitudes scholars have taken toward

medieval times have evolved over the centuries.

With the dismissal of middle-age as a "dark

age" of brutality and ignorance scholars
began to appreciate medieval architecture,
medieval philosophy, and the particular
brand of religious devotion that caused to
label the era "The Age of Faith.
The religion played a major and powerful
role in this time period. Faith and religion
had major power in the Middle ages and
was almost like a government.
The Crusades were a major part of this
because it was war that the church declared
to try to capture the Holy land.

The church in the Middle ages was the

center of town and alot like a
marketplace. The entire life was around
church and everyone believed in God.

The Crusades showed the power of the

church and showed how much power the
Pope had.

The Crusades were a death march to the

Holy land.

The armies were sent by the power of the

church and the pope to go and re-capture
the holy land (modern day jerusalem).
Soldiers who joined the Crusades were freed
of dept and taxes, and if they didn't join,
they were excommunicated and were not a
part of the church anymore.
This shows how religion dominated the
Middle ages and shows the power of the
church and Pope.

The church was pretty much the

government on the Middle Ages. All the
people who lived in the town were
expected to pay 10% of their income to
the church and it was divided within the
church.
The church opened markets in the
courtyard of the church and made money
to support the church. Often parts of the
church were used as a town hall. Also the
church was not just a religion but a life
style.

Power in the church continued and grew as

the years went on, Christianity kept growing
to different countries and continents. Faith
and Religion in the Middle Ages had absolute
power and pretty much absolute rule
Contemporary impact of the Crusades upon
the Muslim world
By the time the Crusaders arrived in the Holy
Land in the late 11th century, the Islamic
expansion had in many ways ceased,
especially compared to the explosion of the
Arabs in the 8th and 9th centuries

The first major Muslim civil war occurred as

early as 656 AD, only 24 years after the
death of the Prophet, leading to the
foundation of the Umayyad dynasty
The First Fatima, as this dispute was
named, also violently heralded the
beginning of the Shia-Sunni split, a schism
which still divides Muslims today
Christian Europe was faced with the
immediate threat of Arabian conquest
Constantinople was under siege by the
armies of the prophet in 716 AD

The Turkish Seljuqs swept across the

Arabian Peninsula in the early 11th century

The Turks continued their conquest through

Asia Minor scoring a resounding victory
against the Byzantines in 1071

The Seljuqs conquered Nicaea, a city

directly across the Bosporus from
Constantinople

The Byzantine armies were also weakened

by their own government due to the
instability of the Byzantine crown

The most visible and resounding impact of

the Crusades was the loss of the
Mediterranean as an Islamic possession

Crusades opened up many new markets for

the flourishing Italian trade empire

The Muslim world in particular has seen a

number of foreign invaders sweep across its
territory in the name of its own religion,
As with Seljuqs in the 11th
century, and the Mongol invaders of the
1300s, most of which later converted to
Islam.

Crusades as a war of Christianity against

Islam is misleading in the sense
The goal of the Crusaders was to conquer
the Holy Land, the so-called Legacy of
Christ not to defeat for all time the religion
of Islam
The goal of even the Byzantines was to
eliminate the threats to their Empire, not to
drive the Muslims from the face of the earth

The crusades and the Islam by Joseph cook

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