Later crusades in XIII. Century was conducted four march with very small
successes, the German Emperor Frederick II. Hohenstaufen twice invaded Egypt and briefly
took Jerusalem, the French King Louis IX. Holy once attacked Egypt and Tunisia one, and there is a so-called. Children's Crusade, which is a crusade in name only, superstitious idea that Jerusalem can win only sinless children took in slavery or death of thousands of children, called crusade and campaign against the Cathars (Albigensians), heretics in southern France
1291 Mamluks (Turkish dynasty which ruled Egypt) conquered Acre, the last
Crusader stronghold in the Middle East
The consequences of the Crusades:
- Europeans are familiar cultural achievements of the East (philosophy, mathematics and medicine),
new crops (rice, spinach, lemon, watermelon), new processing techniques
textiles and metals and exotic spices
- Accelerated economic development of Western Europe
- Mediterranean trade take Venetians and Genoese
- Crusade idea has led and justified the later colonial conquest of the New World,
Africa and the Far East
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