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Content: Yes. What is the duration of A Successful Failure? The duration of A Successful Failure is 1.03 hours. Why was the crusades called successful failures? The crusades were often known as a "successful failure" because they discovered new foods like apricots, rice and sugar. They also discovered new ideas like chess, pain killing medicine, algebra, chemistry and the color scarlet. Another thing is that they discovered house hold products like carpets, mirrors, writing paper and mattresses. The Crusades were a failure because they had the holy land: Jerusalem and then lost it about 100 years later to the Muslims. For the Christians, only the First Crusade was successful, as they managed to claim the holy Land.