Question

Do you agree with this statement: “The Crusades were a huge waste of men and resources and accomplished nothing?” Defend your answer.

Answer 1

Agree, since Catholics used children to go out and be slaughtered by Moslems. I also dislike that the Catholics used these crusaders to kill other Christians who refused to ally with Catholicism.

Answer 2

What the Crusades accomplished depends on your perspective. It's probably worth noting that the consequences (unintended & intended) of the Crusades remain enormously important - but that's a different statement than the question you've proposed.

Answer 3

Ultimately, yes. I'd agree with that statement.

The First Crusade was really the only "successful" Crusade out of all of them. The rest wavered between slight to catastrophic failures to hold onto what the First Crusade had gained, even going so far as to turn against fellow Christians when they sacked Constantinople to literally pay for the boats to take them the rest of the way to the Holy Land.

In the end, the Crusades became a blight that only added to tensions between Orthodox and Roman Catholicism, Muslims and the West, and the senseless slaughter of thousands of innocents on both sides.