Effects of the Crusades
The
Crusades kept all Europe in a tumult for two centuries, and directly
and indirectly cost Christendom several millions of lives (from
2,000,000 to 6,000,000 according to different estimates), besides
incalculable expenditures in treasure and suffering. They were,
moreover, attended by all the disorder, license, and crime with which
war is always accompanied. On the other hand, the Holy Wars were
productive indirectly of so much and lasting good that they form a most
important factor in the history of the progress of civilization. The
effects of the crusades influenced:
