Title: was the first crusade successful? | Yahoo Answers
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was the first crusade successful?
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Content: Some were forced to convert to Christianity, some were killed, and many were robbed of whatever possessions they had. Many consider this the first large antisemitic pogrom of the Christian era. ...Show more
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5 years ago
define success. The first crusade was the only one to actually take and hold the holy land. It was the only successful one in the stated goal. However all the officially sanctioned crusades were successful in that they took large numbers of fighting men out of europe and put them into asia which served the purpose of lessening the general slaughter and fighting that went on in europe at the time. Islam won in the sense that the crusaders forced the muslims to stop killing each other and unite to drive out the crusaders. However historically speaking it led to the eventual downfall of the muslim powers since their major victories convinced them that horse archers were the be all end all of warfare which led to a sort of technological laziness that left them decades behind the rest of europe where firearms and artillery was concerned. This occurred because they didn't realize the victory was less a result of their horse archers and more a result of the desert sun on people wearing heavy metal armor. A common mistake to fight the last war.