The Children's Crusade
Stephen of Cloyes was a child of deep faith who wanted the Holy Land to be governed by Christian people. With no way of bringing people together to march along with each other. In the Thirteenth century a children's movement took place with a goal of going to the Holy Land and establishing Christianity. This was known as the children's crusade. Stephen of Cloyes began to travel around Europe gathering teens to march to the Holy Land.. The children were focused on Christianity and had a high desire to spread it. Along the way they gathered many middle age Christians to participate in their movement. The Children's Crusade was very controversial and faced many challenges but they took action and there were positive and negative results.
The first controversial part of the children Crusade was people thought that it exposed violence to children. This meant that it made children more violent in general and resulted in a bad look for Christianity. The Muslims thought that Christianity was just trying to kill them and get rid of them. Which in reality the only purpose the kids had in the Children's Crusade was to turn non-Christian Believers and to Christians. Another one of the most controversial things about the Crusade the children went on the march to the Holy
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Earlier the church encouraged the marches to the Holy Land but this one they did not because they were scared for the kids and parents. Challenge that they faced was having low wages which meant they were going to be hungry and thirsty. This led to many children dying of thirst and hunger and some of them drowned. another Act of getting the children to stop the March with many of them were sold as slaves and laborers. The children also faced the spread of disease and on the way most of them were attacked and killed by Bandits. This led to the death of many young children in