Were the involved countries of the Crusades damaged?
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some of them were but several of the Crusades were unsuccessful
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France and Egypt and Israel and Palestine and Spain
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Other than what they learned / stole from the Egyptians.  The Roman Catholic Church.
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Your observation is correct and you have a point of logic there. However, the Ottoman Empire was, as you point out correctly, on the rise and not yet as powerful as it was two centuries later.\nSo it lacked the necessary logistics structure to support another Islamic state at the opposite end of the Mediterranean (which was controlled by the fllets of Christian countries). \nIt is also questionable if the Ottoman Turks had much sympathy for the Moros in Spain. Islam might look today like a unified and strong religion, but it is split into numerous groups and factions who don't like each other and see each other as rivals. (Much the same as it is within Judaism and Christianity.)
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ok... so what was the muslim doing in st. petersburg?\n\n(SAINT PETER is christian)\n\narent there muslemic cities or countries?\n\nDo your care about christians being murdered for thier believes in Sudan?\n\nWhats your point?
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Very much so : they were to secure the holy land and the route to Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims.          America's modern crusade is rather more to secure Palestine for the Jews.
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Quite a few.  Vatican City, Andorra and Liechenstien to name a few.
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During a civil war in 1348, Emperor John Cantacuzenus allowed the Turks to cross the Dardanelles into Greece. The gates to Europe, so long defended by Constantinople, were now opened to a powerful Muslim empire, and waves of Turks crossed over. By the end of the 14th century, they had conquered all of Bulgaria and most of Greece and had surrounded Constantinople. The rapid expansion of the Turks into Christian Europe changed the nature of the Eastern Crusades. No longer aimed at conquering faraway Palestine, they became desperate attempts to defend Europe itself.
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Yup, you got it, homey! \n\nAnd those same conquistadores and their ilk circumnavigated the globe and hit the Philippines, too! Same-o, same-o. \n\nThus, in the process, the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade began as they sacked, raped and pillaged all the natural resources of these countries FIVE CENTURIES AGO[!] and they brought back the treasures to Europe and Rome.\n\nBut, as an aside, it never ceases to amaze me how some of their 'faithful' UP TO NOW continue to be IN DENIAL and keep on protecting all the atrocities perpetrated by the Mother Church since the start of the Crusades. They don't realize that the Church's own HISTORY has nothing to do with FAITH at all!\n\nYet somehow they prefer to remain in darkness... until they open their eyes and begin to see.\n\nPeace be with you!
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middle eastern countries.\n\nyearly, 165,000 christians are killed in the middle east.. just for being christian. \n\nso yeah, every country in the middle east except maybe the UAE, lebanon, and israel.
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Call for Crusades by Pope Urban I I 1095-1588\nCapture of Jerusalem in 1st Crusade 1096-1099\nEnd of 2nd Crusade in defeat 1149\nSigning of peace treaty to end Third Crusade 1192\nIdep. of Portugal as Christian kingdom 1179\nDestruction of Baghdad and end of Abbasid dynasty 1258\nCapture of Constantinople by Ottomans 1453\n\nI am pretty sure i am right
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There is no specificate year but it is known that the Knights Templar were a group of fighting knights that were used in the Crusades to allow Christians to safely enter the Jerusealm.
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Hi captain, I have got some thing for you which goes down to early history.\n\n" Charles only spared the lives of those Saracens[Muslims] who consented to be baptised, the rest he put to the sword."--[History of Charles the Great and Orlando, by Turpin, Vol-I, ch-ii, pg-5]\n\n"....460 years later, when the Holy land reverted to the Christian rule of crusading knight of Europe, the oriental Christians regretted the tolerating Govt. of the Arabian Khalifs."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....A bloody sacrifies was offered by mistaken votaries to the God of the Christian resistance might provoke, but neither sage nor sex could mollify, thier implacable rage, they indulged themselves 3 days in a promisenous massacre. After 70,000 muslims had been put to the sword and the harmless JEWS had been burned in thier Synogogue, they could still reserve a multitude of captives whom interest or lassitude persauded them to spare."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\nThe critical Gibbon coclusively proves that, "...to his Christian subjects, Mohammad readily granted security of thier persons, the freedom of thier trade, the property of thier goods and the toleration of thier worship. This profitable principle of toleration was observed with more or less strictness, not only by all the immediate successors of the Prophet, but over the whole period of Arabic ascendency."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON] \n\nOn the other hand..........\n\n"....when Jerusalem capitulated to Khalif Omer, the inhabitants of the vanquished city were left in possesion of thier worldly goods, and allowed the freedom of worship. A special quarter of the city was allotted for the residence of Christian population with thier Patriarch and his clergy."--\n[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....And Islam was tolerant not simply to the Jews but also to the Christians. The Christian church in muslim Spain was given large lands and considerable revenues, christian envoys were recieved with courtesy and allowed to take away relics of christian saints and martyrs from the muslim territory. GIBBON says in his Decline and Fall [of Roman Empire], that muslim rulers even transcribed an Arabic version of the canons of the councils of Spain for the use of BISHOPS in the Moorish kingdom. Haroon al-Rashid, the hero of the "Arabian Nights", planted in his kingdom a large number of schools, the head of these schools, his Director of Education, was a chritian named John."--[ The Spirit and Struggle of Islam by Prof. T.L.Vaswani, Ganesh & Co., Madras-1921]\n\nYou can judge it yourself as to whether muslims inflicted more violence or the Christians ? \n\nAnd you know about modern history and who is responsible for killing lacs of people in Hiroshoma and Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..
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Yes. It has caused so much suffering\n\nListed are only events that solely occurred on command of church authorities or were committed in the name of Christianity. (List incomplete) \nAncient Pagans\n\nAs soon as Christianity was legal (315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan priests were killed. \nBetween 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain. \nExamples of destroyed Temples: the Sanctuary of Aesculap in Aegaea, the Temple of Aphrodite in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon, the Heliopolis. \nChristian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or Cyrill of Heliopolis were famous as "temple destroyer." [DA468] \nPagan services became punishable by death in 356. [DA468] \nChristian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because they had been playing with remains of pagan statues. [DA469]\nAccording to Christian chroniclers he "followed meticulously all Christian teachings..." \nIn 6th century pagans were declared void of all rights. \nIn the early fourth century the philosopher Sopatros was executed on demand of Christian authorities. [DA466] \nThe world famous female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was torn to pieces with glass fragments by a hysterical Christian mob led by a Christian minister named Peter, in a church, in 415.\n[DO19-25] \nMission\n\nEmperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded. [DO30] \nPeasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children slain 5/27/1234 near Altenesch/Germany. [WW223] \nBattle of Belgrad 1456: 80,000 Turks slaughtered. [DO235] \n15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987 villages plundered by Knights of the Order. Victims unknown. [DO30] \n16th and 17th century Ireland. English troops "pacified and civilized" Ireland, where only Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing." One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies... and should bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie", which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused "greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde".\nTens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage. [SH99, 225] \nCrusades (1095-1291)\n\nFirst Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II. [WW11-41] \nSemlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96 thousands. [WW23] \n9/9/96-9/26/96 Nikaia, Xerigordon (then turkish), thousands respectively. [WW25-27] \nUntil Jan 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 castles conquered (number of slain unknown) [WW30] \nafter 6/3/98 Antiochia (then turkish) conquered, between 10,000 and 60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women & children) killed. [WW32-35]\nHere the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in [the enemy's] tents - save that they ran their lances through their bellies," according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of Chartres. [EC60] \nMarra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because of the subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the enemies were eaten by the Christians" said chronicler Albert Aquensis. [WW36] \nJerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40]\n(In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour
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Read this aricle and you judge, not by watchind Fox news and CNN, you will be able to give good jusdgement.\n\n\nIn his book "Civilization of the Arabs," Dr. Gustav LeBon says, "The reader will find, in my treatment of the Arabs' conquests and the reason of their victories, that force was never a factor in the spread of the Koranic[1] teachings, and that the Arabs left those they had subdued free to exercise their religious beliefs. If it happened that some Christian peoples embraced Islam and adopted Arabic as their language, it was mainly due to the various kinds of justice on the part of the Arab victors, with the like of which the non-Moslems were not acquainted. It was also due to the tolerance and leniency of Islam, which was unknown to the other religions." \n\nIn another place of his book, Dr. LeBon adds, "The early Arab conquests might have blurred their common sense and made them commit the sorts of oppression which conquerors usually commit, and thus ill-treat the subdued and compel them to embrace the Faith they wanted to spread all over the globe. Had they done so, all nations, which were still not under their control, might have turned against them, and they might have suffered what had befallen the Crusaders in their conquest of Syria lately. However, the early Caliphs[2], who enjoyed a rare ingenuity which was unavailable to the propagandists of new faiths, realized that laws and religion cannot be imposed by force. Hence they were remarkably kind in the way they treated the peoples of Syria, Egypt, Spain and every other country they subdued, leaving them to practise their laws and regulations and beliefs and imposing only a small Jizya[3] in return for their protection and keeping peace among them. In truth, nations have never known merciful and tolerant conquerors like the Arabs." \n\nHe further explains, "The mercy and tolerance of the conquerors were among the reasons for the spread of their conquests and for the nations' adoptions of their Faith and regulations and language, which became deeply rooted, resisted all sorts of attack and remained even after the disappearance of the Arabs' control on the world stage, though historians deny the fact. Egypt is the most evident proof of this. It adopted what the Arabs had brought over, and reserved it. Conquerors before the Arabs -- the Persians, Greeks and Byzantines -- could not overthrow the ancient Pharaoh civilization and impose what they had brought instead." \n\nThen in another place he adds, "A few impartial European scholars, who are well-versed in the history of the Arabs, do confirm this tolerance. Robertson, in his book "Biography of Charlequin," says that the Moslems alone were the ones who joined between Jihad and tolerance toward the followers of other faiths whom they had subdued, leaving to them the freedom to perform their religious rites." \n\nIn his book "History of the Crusades," Michel Michaud says, "Islam, besides calling for Jihad, reveals tolerance toward the followers of other religions. It released the patriarchs, priests and their servants from the obligations of taxes. It prohibited, in special, the killing of priests for their performance of worship, and Omar Ibn Al-Khattab[4] did not inflict harm on the Christians when he entered Jerusalem as a conqueror. The Crusaders, however, did slay Moslems and burn the Jews when they entered the city." \n\nIn his book, "Islam: Impressions and Studies," Count de Castri says, "After the Arabs yielded to, and believed in the Koran, and people received enlightenment through the True Religion, the Moslems appeared with a new show to the peoples of the earth, with conciliation and treatment on basis of free thinking and belief. The Koranic verses then succeeded one another, calling on kind treatment, after those verses in which warnings had been addressed to the heretic tribes... Such were the
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Very interesting question indeed!  I believe that the knee-jerk reaction to this question would be "no", however, when thinking about it more broadly--I guess ultimately the answer is "yes".  Perhaps this is the basis of "justified war" that religious organizations speak about.  A good example from recent history would be the horrific events of Nazi Germany, Rwanda & currently in Darfur & Congo.  Since  genocide was (is) happening, violence may be necessary--and then acceptable to put an end to the problem.
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Both. The southern section was largely muslim with European-influenced Catholic populations in the northern regions during the early crusades, though the efforts of the Europeans would result in the spread of Catholicism throughout Spain.