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...s resulting in poor eating habits needs as well as a lack of intelligence causing ignorance and stupidity. The Christians also viewed the Muslims with a certain bias such as they had viewed the Muslims as money hungry cannibals, mention was made that the Muslims would rip open their heels and rip out their intestines for money both very disgusting habits. Since they were fighting each other and killing each other maybe the way of attacking beliefs and cultural background is a way to minimise the way they look at each other so when in battle your not as hesitant to kill each other. However this could be a 20th century view instead of the 11th century belief systems. Both the crusaders and the Muslims wanted power. In an interesting contradiction the church wanted to reunite Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire with the Roman Catholic Empire giving the church more power. Then there could be that the pope really wanted the Holy Land back. Though there is really no hard evidence saying that this was the case it is felt that they really wanted more land, expanding into the broken off Byzantine Empire. This taken from Pope Urban's speech about how people raised spears against each other instead let's join and battle against the real enemies, the Turks. This really doesn't mean anything at first glance, but the mention of raising spears against ourselves instead let's ban together and destroy the enemy. This would imply let's have the two empires form one and battle the Turks and then we can get the Holy Land back as well as have more land which equals more power. Another interesting point is from the crusaders themselves. They stated that if they had gone and conquered the Holy Land they would receive land and money this all ties in with power, since at the present time all they had was the Feudal system meaning they would govern their own system. The crusaders wanted more land. Though this maybe one of the deciding factors distinguished between the knights and their serfs, it probably wasn't a real cause. Many crusaders wanted to govern their own piece of land in a new area and so decided to fight being guaranteed piece of land and forgiveness for their sins. All this ties in with power. It is stated that power, land and money are all the same. In essence they are the same and that was the view of the crusaders. Both fighting parties were not just fighting for a piece of land they both wanted to be closer to the end, the Armageddon. Armageddon is the beginning of the end and from the Christians point of view when Christ returns to Earth he will pick up the true Christians and take them to heaven and there they will stay while the world perishes. "The end of the world is near. The days of the Dev...