Crusades vs' Religious Faith

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Crusades vs. Religious Faith
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Position Taken

• Because the goals of the Crusades were not,
  honestly, primarily religious, they should not
  have happened.

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Factor 1 Economic

• Obtaining riches
• Obtaining spices
• Merchants
• Controlling trade routes

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Factor 2 Social Issues

• Get rid of quarrelsome knights
• Something for non-inheriting sons to do
• Prestige in family to send son
• . . . In your coming you will find your reward
  in heaven, and if you do not come, God will
  condemn you. Emperor Alexius Comnenus