The Crusades are a series of nine wars that were fought between Muslims and Christians. There are many reasons why people wanted to fight, but the main reason is that they all believed that the “holy land” (Jerusalem) was rightfully theirs and the Christian's goal was to gain reign over it. The real question is whether the Crusades had more positive or negative results. From my point of view of the Crusades were more negative because there was little religious tolerance and the Crusades legacy left bitterness between the religions and enabled them to further divide.
A lot of innocent people were killed on all sides of the war because what they believed in was different from what others believed in. Document 1 states that, “In Europe, crusaders