The crusades were caused by religious devotion, political gain and economic benefit. There has been great debates of historians discovering the motives of the Crusades and have tried to determine which of the two factors had served as a more active agent and catalyst. The Crusades started when the religion of Christianity had to have the city of Jerusalem as Christian property as it was where their God was crucified. However, the aspect of political gain and economic benefit were an additional advantage when participating in the Crusade.
One of the factors in causing the Crusades was political gain and economic benefit. As well as religious devotion, political gain and economic benefit played a part in the Crusades. The first Crusade call from Pope Urban the second was done to reclaim back Jerusalem from their religion of Christianity. If a person went on the Crusade, the Crusader would be able to win fame and bring glory and could come back with the…
Losing the Holy Land was too shameful for Christendom, so with the Popes blessing, dozens of thousands of men marched toward Jerusalem under the three great kings. The Fourth Crusade (1201-1204) occurred shortly after the Third Crusade. Pope Innocent III succeeded to the papacy in 1198 and decided to launch a new crusade against the Egyptians who were now united and had Jerusalem under their control. The Third Crusade had severely hurt the hopes of reclaiming the Holy Land, but Pope Innocent III was determined to recover what he believed was Christian territory.
The Crusades in general had two major motives which where religious devotion and political gain and economic gain. However despite there being two, the religious devotion aspect outweighs the political and economic gain due to that the goal of all the Crusades were to regain Jerusalem for…
