The French Revolution: The Crusades And The Reformation

Religion is a constant in every society, in many cases, it was created to help understand the things that cannot have been explained and to give them hope as to what happened after they died. However, not all societies had the same religious beliefs. Which is why religion had different impacts in the societies, in some cases religion was the biggest part of their lives and in some places, such as the United States of America, religion is not necessarily part of everyone’s life. If religion is something that the individual devotes their life to it does not have to be the same religion of the person who lives down the street. Nonetheless, it is still around and during the French revolution, Crusades and the Reformation it had a major impact on the daily lives of the people in the country.
The Crusades usually thought to be just one single war. The definition of a crusade is “a holy war”, so when taking a look back at history there were 6 crusades that happened. But, the major one was between the Christians and the Muslims. This lead to a bitterness between the two, which to this day has not yet been resolved. The main goal of the

Crusades was to reclaim Jerusalem and reunite Christianity, although kings would use the crusades to send away knight who causes trouble and the merchants gained wealth during the crusade through trade.
During the first and second crusade, the Pope promise the crusaders who die in the battle a place in heaven. This allowed them to sin all they wanted as long as they would fight in the war. Which was not the only way that the Crusade changed the life of the people. The Crusades showed the power of the church in convincing thousands of people to fight, the failure weakened the pope and nobles but strengthened the kings. Nevertheless, all the change were not all bad merchants expanded trade and brought back many products from Southwest Asia, the women who stay home now manage the estate and business affairs. But, the Crusades were not the only event that religiously impacted the country.
The Reformation was also a time period when religion dramatically impacted the society.

Martin Luther protested over the abuses in the Catholic church and challenged the authority of the church. During the reformation, the church was known for selling the indulgences, where they would pay for forgiveness from their sins. Which gave the rich upper-class people the ability to sin all they wanted because all they had to do was pay the church and their sins would have been forgotten. While the lower class or peasants of the country could not have that luxury because of the limited amount of money they had. Luther decided that he would teach that people could win salvation by good work and faith, instead of buying indulgences, also the Christian teachings must be based on the bible, not the pope, mainly because the popes were poorly

educated.
Religion was always part of societies and will probably always continue to be. But from time to time the impact can be greater than at other times. Like during the Crusades and the French Revolution and many other times, which is something that will continue to happen unless people take into account the events that happened in the past and prevent them from happening again.