A crusade is a fight against any enemies of the cross of Christ. What that definition means was that the Christians would go out and fight the non-believers and try to convert them to Christianity. For the Christian church, there were about 7 major crusades. Also, there were countless minor crusades. All of those happened only between the years 1095, when the first crusade was launched, and the year 1300, when the last major crusade was ended. Most of those Crusades were directed towards the Middle East to convert the Muslims to Christianity. Lots of the crusades were fought between the Muslims and the Christians for control of Jerusalem. So the fight for the holy land, Jerusalem was the cause of most of the crusades. For the Christians, it was a very long journey to Jerusalem so many people spent months or years on their crusades if they didn't die along the way.
I did not know that the crusades happened many times, I thought it was just one long war like the civil war; with smaller battles. Did other religions ever do anything like the crusades?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that the christians killed non believers just becuase they didn't believe in Jesus and to force them to believe in something they don't believe in is a little harsh, and I didn't know that there was little crusades and not just one big war.
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