what were the effects of the Crusaders on Europe and Asia?
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The Crusades left a lasting impact on the aspects of Christian Muslim relations.b The Muslim states developed harsher attitudes towards its Christian subjects.c In the areas of mixed populations Muslim Jews and Christians religious conflicts intensified.d There was a greater influence of Italian mercantile communities from Pisa Genoa and Venice in the trade between the East and the West even after the restoration of Muslim power.e In the first crusade soldiers from France and Italy captured Antioch in Syria and also claimed Jerusalem. Their victory marked by slaughter of Muslims and Jewsf They increased the power of church in Europe and increased its ability to create wars and inflict violence in the common people.
There were various effects of the Crusades on Europe and Asia:-
i) The Muslim states began to adopt a harsher attitude towards their Christian subjects.
ii) There was a great increase in the influence of Italian mercantile communities in the trade between the east and the west.
iii) Power of Europeans feudal lords decrease and there was a decline of feudalism in Europe. It helped in the emergence and rise of the Nation-States.
iv) the crusade left a deep impact on Christian-Muslim relation in a negative way.