Kaitryn+McDade

​​ 1. Introduction--Describe a general cause or causes of the conflict.
I believe that the main cause of the Crusades was acceptance. People couldn't accept the other people around them. They wanted to be in charge and control the people who didn't share the same beliefs, or ideas, as them.

2. Background- Describe who, what, where and when.

 * The Christians, Jews, Muslims, Seljuk Turks, Persians, and Mongols all fought each other over religion and territory.
 * It took place in Europe, France, Persia, Clermont, Palestine, and the Holy Land.
 * It first started in 1096 when the Pope Urban ll at Clermont ordered the Crusades to start.

3. Causal Factors--Describe three factors that led to The Crusades.

 * 1) Having Muslims, Jews, and Christians all in Jerusalem caused a little bit of unsettlement among the groups.
 * 2) The fact that at one point each of the religions had once ruled Jerusalem at a time
 * 3) Having all different sorts of territories and wanting power on top of the other religions made it tense until they decided to start the Crusades.

4. Most Important Factor--Explain how one factor was more important than the others.
Maybe the fact that everyone at the time believed so strongly in their religion, and religious leaders, that they would do anything or __believe__ anything that they were told/said to do. I think if today someone told us to fight to defend our religions well... not many people would do it. People back then were willing to do something and that was the most important factor.

5. Impacts- Explain how one religious group and an individual within that group were impacted by The Crusades.
Christianity was affected by the Crusades because it put a lot of their people at risk of dying or losing their homes and family members. Also it kind of put a bad name on their religion and made the others judge them by what their pope did.

"The aim of Christianity is not to fill the earth, but to fill heaven. Why should one worry if the number of Christians is lessened in the world by deaths endured for God? By this kind of death people make their way to heaven who perhaps would never reach it by another road." //(Jonathan Riley-Smith)// = 6. Conclusion--Explain how The Crusades could have been avoided. = I think that the Crusades could have been avoided if the people had decided to co-exist peacefully. By choosing to not respect each others practices, they made it tense and they couldn't work together. If they had respected each other and their religions then this would have never happened.

7. Works Cited--List your sources in MLA format.
Cline, Austin. "Christianity & Violence: Filling Heaven, Not Earth." __About.com__ December 26, 2005. The New York Times Company. March 2, 2010. <[]>