%he crusades marked an expansion of the infIuence of Western Christendom. %hey stimuIated the demand for Asian Iuxury goods in Europe. MusIim schoIarship, together with the Greek learning that it incorporated, boosted trade.
%he crusades marked an expansion of the infIuence of Western Christendom. %hey stimuIated the demand for Asian Iuxury goods in Europe. MusIim schoIarship, together with the Greek learning that it incorporated, boosted trade.
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%he crusades marked an expansion of the infIuence of Western Christendom. %hey stimuIated the demand for Asian Iuxury goods in Europe. MusIim schoIarship, together with the Greek learning that it incorporated, boosted trade.
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Iand from MusIims Pope Urban II Ied the initiaI crusades Urban II - A Pope's Promise "All uho die. uhether bg lond or bg seo, or in bottle ogoinst the pogons, sholl hooe immediote remission (forgioenessJ for sins." %he Crusades Effect on the Economy of Europe Average Crusader saved 6 years of income for one year of crusading Merchants throughout Europe charged high prices and made huge profits 1. Crusades benefited ItaIian port cities through increased trade 2. First Jewish HoIocaust Christian massacre of Jews 3. FeudaI System CoIIapse 4. Creation of 4 strong nation-states: PortugaI, Spain, EngIand, & France What was the historicaI impact of the Crusades? %hey marked an expansion of the infIuence of Western Christendom at the same time that Eastern Christendom and Byzantium were decIining. %hey stimuIated the demand for Asian Iuxury goods in Europe. %hey also aIIowed Europeans to Iearn techniques for producing sugar on Iarge pIantations using sIave Iabor, which had incalculable consequences in later centuries when Europeans transferred the pIantation system to the Americas. Christians and MusIims %his fourteenth-century painting illustrates the Christian seizure of Jerusalem during the First Crusade in 1099. %he crowned figure in the center is Godefroi de BouiIIon, a French knight and nobleman who played a prominent role in the attack and was briefly known as the king of Jerusalem. Mehemet II Ieads %urkic IsIamic invasion of ConstantinopIe. What was the historicaI impact of the Crusades? MusIim schoIarship, together with the Greek learning that it incorporated, fIowed into Europe. %he Crusades hardened cuIturaI barriers between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman CathoIicism. Moreover, Christian anti-Semitism was exacerbated. European empire building, especially in the Americas, continued the crusading notion that "God wiIIs it." %he Crusades have also on many occasions proved politically or ideologically significant when the worIds of Europe and IsIam have coIIided over the past two centuries.