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The Crusades


            Brought back stories that led to an interest in other cultures.
             Brought back spices that led to food lasting longer.
             Brought back clothes that everyone wanted.
             The crusaders weakened the feudal nobility since they lost many of their lands to go on expeditions. The Byzantine power also decreased with the powerful attacks from the Crusades. Religious intolerance erupted with the Muslims, Jews, and Christians. These religions used each other as scapegoats and attacked each other with hostility. The Crusades brought an increase in trade to the empire since they purchased new utensils and foods from Arab markets that benefited them. In the long run, Crusades sparked changes that would important to the future of the empire's economy and people.
             The Renaissance, which began in Italy in 1300s, was one of the .
             largest periods of growth and development in Western Europe. The .
             increase in trade caused a abundance in wealth that resulted in the .
             focusing of the arts. Such things as literature, paintings, sculptures .
             and many more works are known to have blossomed from the period known .
             as the Renaissance. Many other important occurrences , such as the .
             Reformation and split of the Roman Catholic Church caused by the .
             opposing views of Martin Luther and more of a focus on humankind .
             called humanism, also the eight crusades to retake Jerusalem from the.
             Muslims, played key rolls in the period of the Renaissance.
             The Crusades which took place before the period of the .
             Renaissance are a major factor in the coming about or "birth" of the.
             Renaissance. The eight Crusades were the efforts to take back .
             Jerusalem from the Muslims. These Crusades introduced to Western .
             Europe the new tastes of art, fine quisines and new types of cloth, .
             including silk. With this the need for trade with the Far East .
             increased drastically. This increase in trade caused an abundance of .
             wealth in Western Europe which intern brought new products and goods .


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