Crusades?!?

Question:During what crusade did the Christians persecute the Jews in Rhineland Germany?
and
What are some of the short-term/long-term results of the crusades?
ive done research i just want some clarifacation from people that it's right.
Thans for the people whoanswer! i appreciate it

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: During what crusade did the Christians persecute the Jews in Rhineland Germany?
and
What are some of the short-term/long-term results of the crusades?
ive done research i just want some clarifacation from people that it's right.
Thans for the people whoanswer! i appreciate it

The Crusades 1st victims were the Jews indeed. & yes, there was a huge massacre in Germany.

Short term results: Few Latin monarchies in the near east.

Long term results: Failure of the crusades, a living legacy of distrust between the Muslim east & the Christian west, a legacy of distrust between the Orthodox Christians & the Catholics too.

Some positive results: The west had learned of new inventions from the Muslims, & adopted new methods of irrigating.

I was just reading a book about this very topic today. (Yeah, you would be surprised what a nerd like me does for fun.)

It was the year 1096, during the very beginning of the first crusade, while Pope Urban II was trying to get this army together and get it moving.

The church would just inflame the anti-semitism. Then all these armed soldiers, looking for an infidel to kill, and having the church's blessing to do so, just they just went for it.

You know, I think you should read the words of Urban II himself. This will give you an idea how he struck right at the heart of the code of chivalry in getting the lay knights to go after the Jews:

"I address fathers and sons and brothers and nephews. If an outsider were to strike your kin down would you not avenge your blood relative? How much more ought you to avenge your God, your father, your brother whom you see reproached, banished from his estates, crucified; whom you hear calling, desolate and begging for aid."

Put this way, the whole chivalrous code compelled a knight to avenge Christ. Anyway, I thought that was interesting.

There was a whole moral justification think behind the Pope's call to arms that was pretty scary. But that's not your question, so I'll move on.

You know, I just started the book, so I won't 'guess' at results beyond what other responders have given you. I'm still learning about it myself...

Good luck!