What were the main purpose of crusades? What were it's effects on muslims and Christian?
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The main purpose of Crusades is----
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The term refers especially to the Eastern Mediterranean campaigns in the period between 1096 and 1271 that had the objective of recovering the Holy Land from Islamic rule. The term has also been applied to other church-sanctioned campaigns fought to combat paganism and heresy, to resolve conflict among rival Roman Catholic groups, or to gain political and territorial advantage. The difference between these campaigns and other Christian religious conflicts was that they were considered a penitential exercise that brought forgiveness of sins declared by the church. Historians contest the definition of the term "crusade". Some restrict it to only armed pilgrimages to Jerusalem; others include all Catholic military campaigns with a promise of spiritual benefit; all Catholic holy wars; or those with a characteristic of religious fervour.
The impact of the Crusades on Christianity and Islam may thus be summarised in general terms as:
1)an increased presence of Christians in the Levant during the Middle Ages.
2)the development of military orders.
a polarisation of the East and West based on religious differences.
3)the specific application of religious goals to warfare in the Levant, Iberian peninsula, and Baltic region, in particular.
4)the increased role and prestige of the popes and the Catholic Church in secular affairs.
5)the souring of relations between the West and the Byzantine Empire leading, ultimately, to the latter’s destruction.