The Crusades

The Crusades

Crusaders wars (from the end of the XI. By the end of the XIII. Century): the first mass colonizing venture Europeans
The main reason: due to the rapid development of the European economy in the XI. century Western Europe become overcrowded - the excess population from all walks looked for the country and a better life in the East

The reason: in the second half of the XI. century Turkish people Seldţuka won Jerusalem and part
Byzantine possessions in the Middle East, in contrast to the Arab rulers, not Seldţuci
allow free access to Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Byzantine emperor
Alexios Komnenos addressed the Pope for help, offering the church West Union if it
help to return the possessions that he won Seljuks
1095 the Church Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II. urged all Western Christians on
liberation of the Holy Land and promised them massively forgiveness of sins
Interests and initiatives:

- Lower nobility, especially landless knights, they saw in it an opportunity to reach
own article in the East
- Lords are also becoming interested in new lands after the success of first crusade
war
- Peasants flocking to war to liberate kmetskog situation and poverty
- Cities in Italy, such as Venice and Genoa, want to make a trade monopoly on
eastern Mediterranean
- Church, ie. Pope, intends to achieve dominance over the entire Christian world and convert Muslim population
- Crusaders believed that waging a just war in the name of Christ and that all of their misdeeds
committed in these campaigns will be forgiven
- Hikes are promising and rich spoils of war, after the war, I spread the legend of the inexhaustible
Resource East