One of the most disastrous crusading campaigns was [BLANK-1]…
One of the most disastrous crusading campaigns was [BLANK-1] from 1202-1204. This campaign not only saw crusaders fail to wrest Jerusalem from Muslim control, but it also saw Christian crusaders attack and sack the Christian city of Constantinople after the city refused to admit them. This blunder was more than a deviation from the main goal of the Crusades (retaking the Holy Land) it was a complete refutation of one of the very causes for the Crusades (for the Catholic Church to reconcile with the Eastern Orthodox Church which was centered in Constantinople). Not only did the Crusade fail to unite the Eastern and Western churches, it further divided the two and it led to the weakening of the Byzantine Empire (the heart of the Eastern Orthodox Church).
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