HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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The secularization of many religious institutions
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The increased contact with the Islamic Empire via the Crusades
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Clerical abuses
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The sale of indulgences
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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: -The Crusades provided the religious ideology for the Reconquista, which in turn inspired Atlantic colonization. The Reconquista, or reconquest, refers to the 800 years of violence and expulsion of Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula after the failed Crusades.
Detailed explanation-3: -i) The Muslim states began to adopt a harsher attitude towards their Christian subjects. ii) There was a great increase in the influence of Italian mercantile communities in the trade between the east and the west. iii) Power of Europeans feudal lords decrease and there was a decline of feudalism in Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups. In all, eight major Crusade expeditions-varying in size, strength and degree of success-occurred between 1096 and 1291.