[laurener7]

i need to know quickly whether or not the crusades were good or bad. also, what would the world be like if the Crusades never happened? thank youuu!

[MrJohnDClare]

laurener7, on May 28 2007, 11:34 PM, said:

i need to know quickly whether or not the crusades were good or bad.

The way to answer this is to do a bit of research/reading, looking for the results/consequences/effects of the Crusades.
When you have assembled a good list, split them into 'good' and 'bad' results and write your answer:
1. There were some results that might be called 'good', which were....
2. HOWEVER, there were also many results which might be said to have been 'bad', which were...
3. THEREFORE, overall, my assessment is that....

Sites which seem to have some good 'results'-type include:
http://history-world.org/crusades.htm - especially the beginning and end of the article.
http://history-world.org/crusades1.htm - inlcudes 'results' and 'evaluation'.
http://www.killeenro.../2/CRUSCHAR.htm - brief notes (you may find them a bit cryptic)
Some more idea in this wikipedia article
Youn willfind many more idea if you simply put
Crusades results
into google and pursue some of the results - I especially liked this answer.
Also, this article is an interesting examination of the consequences of the Crusades from the Muslim point of view.

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also, what would the world be like if the Crusades never happened? thank youuu!

Oooo - that is really hard.
I suppose the key is to separate out those results that would not have happened without the Csades from those things that would have happened anyway.
One argument is that - by closing off the Middle East to traders, the wars with Islam stimulated Christopher Columbus to look for a westwards route to India, and led directly to the discovery of America - so I suppose you could speculate hat the world would have been like if we had never discovered America!

This Islamic site - http://www.submissio...s/crusades.html - shows you that the ill-will which resulted from the Crusades is still with us today.