The Crusades!
By Dalton Godwin
Why did the crusades happen?
- The Muslims captured the holy land because they thought it was rightfully theirs
- The Christians fought back because they thought that it belonged to them because god deemed it as theirs
Effects of the Crusades
- Christians gained control of many Mediterranean trade routes
- It helped solidify the pope's control over the church as a whole
- It militarized the medieval western church