The First Crusade: Christianity as an Agressor

Popular literature and apologies to me about Christianity and the tendency to promote peace all over the world, but Christianity itself draws a completely different picture. This assumes that I may use the Old Testament with the New Testament as the basis of Christian doctrine. Exodus 15: 3 says "The Lord is a man of war". "He is wearing clothes covered in blood, and his clothes are called" the word of God ".

"Crusade: a series of wars by Western European Christians to regain sacred places from Muslims" (Encarta "Crusades") Crusades began in 1096 and ended in the late 13th century. The word "Crusades" originally meant that Europeans would make every effort to regain the power of Muslims. Because they are the place where Jesus Christ was crucified, I would like to regain the city of Jerusalem, holy to Christians. Europeans later used it to distribute military efforts against non-Christians. The Crusade also set up a feudal state in the Near East. Crusades played an important role in European expansion and colonialism. "It is the first time that the West Christian world did military operations in places far away from home, which is the first time that many people brought their culture and religion abroad "(Mayer, 9)" There is also the peace of God on the agenda.

Is the Crusade primarily caused by religious piety or political and economic interests?

At the popular level, the first crusade caused a wave of passionate and devout Catholic violence - appeared in the Jewish massacre and accompanied events occurred in the Crusades and Antioch. Violent treatment of Eastern "split" Orthodox Christians. The Islamic world seems hardly registered in the Crusades; of course, there is limited written evidence before 1130. This may be caused partly by not trying to link Muslim failures, but it is likely to be the result of cultural misunderstandings. Al-Afdal and the Muslim world erroneously believe that Crusader is the latest member of Byzantine mercenaries. In any case, the Islamic world split between Syria and Sunni in Iraq and Shia Faria in Egypt. Even the Turks split the rulers of competition in Damascus and Aleppo. In Baghdad, Seljuk Sultan is fighting the caliph of the Abbasid dynasty in the fight against Mesopotamia