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was the first crusade successful?
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Content: 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. The crusades became less and less successful due to a combination increasing muslim effectiveness in dealing with crusader tactics and a decreased sense of threat felt by europeans since they were less and less concerned about muslim encroachment into europe. As far as historical speculation is concerned one wonders what would have happened had Baldwin the IV not been a leper. ...Show more
Jen
1 decade ago
The first crusades were fairly successful because the French and English involved (Christians) were so passionate and optomistic about their battles. However after less troops were being sent over, victorys began to dwindle. After the "Children's Crusade" (in which a few hundred Italian and French children went to conquer Jerusalem, I mean like four year olds, who never really made it to Israel, as they were sold into slavery by arab traders) the Pope felt embarressed and less crusades took place.