The Crusades: A Comparison Of Christianity And Islam

Christianity and Islam both lend their religion to a single deity: the Christian God being the loving, redeeming, and just Creator of the Earth, and Islam’s Allah, the just, judgmental, and inspiring god which required His love to be earned by His followers. Both these religions entail prophets, great religious wars, and holy books. Both have spread far across the earth and both have experienced major persecution for their beliefs. However, as similar as they might be, Christianity and Islam are very different religions. While Muslims believe their prophet received holy visions from Allah, Christians accredit their foundation upon a man called Jesus who was believed to be the Son of God and man. Both of these founders worked with their people and gathered many …show more content…
The Crusades set up multiple new trade routes, civilizations and established new resources and relationships across Eurasia. Since the Crusades occurred, the Western Europeans nations who embarked on them have flourished. The new resources used and the knowledge gained from the stops along the way to Israel influenced the countries then, and they still influence them now. These influences built the great empires such as Spain and England, the knowledge learned from the Arab scholars expanded and deepened, and the land and materials used have created marvelous inventions that have benefitted the modern world. As the first explorers set out across the Atlantic from the same countries which participated in the Crusades, the influence of the trek to the Holy Land even spread to the Americas, and the settlers there then spread this influence even further. Trade influences the entire world now, and it wouldn’t be the same without the establishment of new routes brought about by the event of the