Title: was the first crusade successful? | Yahoo Answers
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was the first crusade successful?
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Content: they got to get new feudal realms to be overlords of and not get excommunication from the pope. From the Byzantine empire and orthodox Christians point of view: Absolutely not. Instead of gaining relief and assistance from the Catholic west and a weakening of power from their Islamic nieghbours they found with the Crusaders another even more dangerous rival in the region. ...Show more
Anonymous
1 decade ago
Yes - off they all went - had no idea exactly where they were going - got to Jerusalem and broke into the place in 1099. Of course the Crusaders were so stupid that they just killed everybody whether the people there were Christian, Jews or Muslim. The murder of the people in Jerusalem freaked out the Muslims SO MUCH! They'd never seen that level of violence and stupidity - so that's how the Muslims remember the Christians Europeans. And that's how they think of the American invaders in Iraq and Afghanistan to this day. ...Show more
Dave aka Spider Monkey
Lv 7
1 decade ago
If you were Christian it was successful because they got back the Holy Land , however it can be deemed a failure because of the illtreatment done to the Muslims and Jews who would not convert to Christianity.