The crusades

The Crusades were a turning point in history that affected the Middle East and Europe. The Crusades did transform the economy of the Middle East, but many of the changes were bad for Middle Eastern countries, but beneficial for the European Countries. Even while the Crusades benefited the Middle east by making European nations weak to invasion, the Muslim nations were more hurt by the Crusades because: the Europeans gained new intelligence, making the European nations just as developed as the Muslim nations; created a distrust between Muslims and Christians, making trade and interaction between the groups harder; and encouraged an age of European expansion, lessening the role of Middle Eastern nations in trade.

Even though the European nations failed in the crusades, cultural diffusion took place over the many years they inhabited Muslim countries, and in turn the Europeans took these ideas so they became as developed as Muslim nations. The Crusades increased contact between the Christians and the Muslims because the first Crusaders would live in Muslim cities in-between. Crusades. This increased contact created a direct cultural diffusion that would hurt the Muslims in time. These Crusaders would learn the local language and learn words such as Alchemy, Algebra and Zenith that had never been created in the Languages spoken by the crusaders. Also, from being in the Middle East for so long, crusaders learned of new sciences created by the Muslims such as Chemistry and Astronomy. These new ideas learned by the Crusaders helped develop Europe to Muslim standards, but was bad for the Muslims because now Europe can be seen as a threat in the field of commerce or even in war. The Middle East was seen to have the most developed natio...

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...in Italy because this basically pulled them out of the dark ages that were just ending around the time that the Crusades were starting. Not only was the Renaissance caused by the increased amount of items going through the cities, but because they were needed so badly the price increased and the wealth of these cities increased. All of this was very bad for the Muslim nations because the effect of European cities and towns becoming more prominent in trade was that the Muslim countries became less involved and were hurt. While the Renaissance was started, an era of Colonialism and Expansion was started that had been seen like no other. European people started to try and spread their religion even more than before the Crusades. The first sign that can be seen of this expansion is the actual crusader states themselves. Now, the Europeans were pushing their boundaries