Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Crusades: Myths and Legends That Shaped History

Crusading later gave religious justification for the conquest of the New World of the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and people in general travelled a little more whereas before they tended to remain in their hometowns Pilgrimages were more popular and songs and stories about the Crusades opened up European people's worldview a bit more even if it was a prejudiced view for many

A complex web of myth legend imagery and language was spun about the Crusades by both the Christians and the Muslims which created heroes and tragedies that were later commonly depicted in art and literature

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