World History History of the Crusades

Question: Write an essay on History of the Crusades? Answer: The crusades are most importantly the most misunderstood event in the European History. Most of the information which has been passed to the public has been misleading for them to understand the real essence of what has exactly happened in the history. Misconceptions about the crusades are all common. The crusades are generally common as they are portrayed as a series of holy wars against the Islam community which has been led by the power mad popes and which was fought by the religious fanatics. They are supposed to have led the communities and were supposed to have the epitome of self righteousness and intolerance - an unacceptable stain in the history of the Catholic Church in common. A separate group of people who have believed that they were great by themselves are called as proto imperialists whom the Crusaders have introduced western aggression to the peaceful Middle- East communities and have in turn deformed their so called disciplined culture. The western culture has almost managed to ruin the entire Muslim and other Middle Eastern cultural attributes to zero. There were a lot of researches which were conducted on the history of the Crusades. Some of the facts which have been proven are that the Crusades for the Eastern communities or the countries were sort of defensive wars. They were a direct response to the Muslim aggression which was treated as an attempt for them to turn their backs against the Muslim conquests of the Christian Lands. Christians in the previous centuries were not paranoids where the Muslims were gunning for them. Islam was born in war where the actual situation could have been turned otherwise. From a safe distance of many centuries it was easy for most of the people to scowl in disgust at the Crusades. Religion was also not much of a reason for the people to fight for. From the time of Mohammed the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword which has divided the world into 2 spheres which were the Abode of Muslim and the Abode of War. When Mohammed was waging a war against Mecca in the early 7th Century Christianity was in total dominance however the faith of the other European cultures had a greater say in different parts of Europe and so the Christian community would remain the prime target for the rest of the world for the next thousands of years. Christians and Jews can be tolerated within a Muslim State under the Muslim rule however in a traditional Islam the Christian and Jewish States should have been destroyed and their lands should have been conquered. References Tyerman, Christopher, The Debate on the Crusades 1099 - 2010, Manchester University Press, 2011 Jean Flori,Chroniqueurs et propagandistes: introduction critique aux sources de la premire croisade(Geneva, 2010). Giles Constable, The historiography of the crusades, inThe Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, ed. Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (Washington, 2001), pp. 122. Belloc, Hilaire, Clarifying a misunderstood period of History The Worlds Debate , 2000.