HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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The king offered to pay them.
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They were promised wealth and told they’d go to heaven if they died.
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They were forced to by the Lords of the manor they lived on.
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They were knights, and this was their job.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In fact, religious intolerance increased during and after the Crusades. During the 200 years of the Crusades, Christians killed thousands of Muslims and Muslims killed thousands of Christians. In fact, some Western European Christians killed Eastern European Christians because they dressed like Muslims!
Detailed explanation-2: -Although King Richard’s Christian forces won the fight, known as the Battle of Arsuf, they ultimately lost the Third Crusade to the Muslims, who held onto the Holy Land, said study researcher Rafael Lewis, an associate researcher at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa in Israel.
Detailed explanation-3: -What two aspects of Christianity helped drive the Crusaders to embark on the Crusades? The Crusades drew inspiration from two Christian institutions, pilgrimage and holy war.
Detailed explanation-4: -On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!”