Title: Why were the Crusades unsuccessful? - Quora
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Why were the Crusades unsuccessful?
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Content: For them it wasn't a war with a side of pilgrimage, it was a pilgrimage with a side of war (originally said by John Green, Crash course world history). thanks for reading. Andrew Bailey
, Teacher of Religious Studies at St Dominic's Sixth Form College (2016-present)
Answered 2 years ago
Originally Answered: Why were crusades not successful? Successful at what? Thousands of people went on crusade for a multitude of different reasons. If you judge by their motivation then some were and some weren’t. Historians have identified broad themes of motivations for both the ‘big players’, as it were, and the individuals who went. Byzantine Motivations
The First Crusade (1095-1099) was initiated partly by the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) sending an envoy to Rome requesting troops to aid in his war of re-conquest against the Seljuk Turks. It’s likely he was hoping for a few hundred or couple of thousand Latin knights as mer
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Successful at what?