HOW DID THE CRUSADES CHANGE EUROPE?

     There were many changes in Europe that happened from the crusades. The most significant changes were the Catholic Church, Commerce, and finally Intellectual Changes. These three were my top choices as how they had the most effect on Europe. 

    The Catholic Church has changed a lot since the crusades. For example the catholic church has become richer after the crusades. They became  richer because of two reasons, people started to pay tithes. Tithe is ten percent of their profit that goes to the church. Also knights that went to battle gave the church their land so the church could be happy with them and they could go to heaven if they die. And last but not least the pope is seen as the leader of Europe. That is how the catholic church became stronger. 

     Second, Commerce is also an interesting change that happened also by the crusades. Commerce is another fancy word for trade. Europeans started to take interest in trade. By taking interest in trade the started going to the Middle East and learn and begin to trade with them. The Europeans and The ARABS started to trade with each other goods of their own. For example they started to trade tapestries, precious stones, perfumes, spices, pearls, and ivory. One last thing is that the Europeans started to learn how to built ships and they began to built ships of their own. So they started to trade and learn stuff from the Middle East. 

     Last but not least the crusades have had a superb effect on Intellectual Changes. Europeans have started to take interest in traveling and searching the whole world. They also wanted to be liberalized. Liberalized means to be free. Finally, they had scientific advantages. 

     There were other great impact or changes that happened by the crusades, for example feudalism and political effects. Feudalism has changed a lot before the crusades, for example the knights before the crusades had a lot of wealth by owning land. After the knights have given their land to the church and fought the crusade and lived they were poor. They were poor because they have sold all their wealth which is their piece of land. Another example is political effect. political effect also played a role for weakening feudalism, it also gave cities more power than before. And political effects stopped Arab advance. Those were two other examples of impacts of the crusade.