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Why Did The Christians Start The Crusades
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From the time of Mohammed, Muslims had sought to conquer
the Christian
world. They did a pretty good job of it, too. After a few
centuries of
steady conquests, Muslim armies had taken all of North
Africa, the
Middle East, Asia Minor, and most of Spain. In other
words, by the end
of the eleventh century the forces of Islam had captured
two-thirds of
the Christian world. Palestine, the home of Jesus Christ;
Egypt, the
birthplace of Christian monasticism; Asia Minor, where
St. Paul planted
the seeds of the first Christian communities: These were
not the
periphery of Christianity but its very core. And the
Muslim empires were
not finished yet. They continued to press westward toward
Constantinople, ultimately passing it and entering Europe
itself. As far
as unprovoked aggression goes, it was all on the Muslim
side. At some
point what was left of the Christian world would have to
defend itself
or simply succumb to Islamic conquest. The First Crusade
was called by
Pope Urban II in 1095 in response to an urgent plea for
help from the
Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. Urban called the
knights of
Christendom to come to the aid of their eastern brethren.
It was to be
an errand of mercy, liberating the Christians of the East
from their
Muslim conquerors. In other words, the Crusades were from
the beginning a
defensive war. The entire history of the eastern Crusades
is one of
response to Muslim aggression.
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