The crusades were a series of military campaigns during the medieval england against the muslims of the middle east. Are the crusades more positive or negative? Well i think it is more negative than positive because the crusades are harmful.There was a lot of negativity in the middle century caused by the 4 crusades.
There is many thing that the crusades cause so that why there was so much negatively.Document 5 shows how much negativity there is by stating “ first the struggle between ISlam and Christendom and the example of persecution set by christian kings and prelates (bishops) left an inheritance of deep bitterness; relations between muslims and there christians and jewish subjects worsened.( Unknown source).These details are important because the first struggle was between …show more content…
They also left a bitter legacy of religious hatred behind them.”This is important because there was religious hatred between christians and muslims. IN the middle east, both christians and muslims committed applling atrocities in the name of religion.Document 7 states “ despite all the efforts,maintaining these crusaders kingdoms was difficult.To begin with there small numbers were small.They were very dependent on Western Europe for supplies and solders.To make matters worse,the crusading knight often abused and committed atrocities against Eastern Orthodox Christians,Jews and muslims in the areas through which they passed.This is important because document 7 shows how the crusaders kingdom had very little amount of supplies and solers. So they depended on the Western Europe soldiers and supplies.These two documents show that crusaders kingdom depended on the western europe and there was many hartis between the muslims and