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Crusades
Title: Crusades
Category: History
Details: Words: 1079 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Crusades
In the Middle Ages, Christians considered Palestine the Holy Land because it was
where Jesus had lived and taught. The Arabs had conquered Palestine in the 600s. Most
Arabs were Muslims, but they usually tolerated other religions. Jews and Christians who
paid their taxes and observed other regulations were free to live in Palestine and practice
their own religion. The Arab rulers didn’t usually interfere with Christian pilgrims
visiting Palestine, and European traders could …showed first 75 words of 1079 total…
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Commercial changes also occurred. Italian cities benefited from their role in transporting
crusading armies. Europeans discovered products from the middle East- rice, sugar,
lemons, apricots, and melons, among other things;which stimulated trade in such goods.
Cotton cloth and other such raw materual were also introduced through Europe after the
crusades. So in short the crusades may have been a war of relgion that caused many
problems it also brought about many solutions.
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