<span>The greatest example of Humanism was an individual - Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536). Humanism influenced the growth of learning by "abandoning medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential."</span>
At the urging of pope urban II in 1095,the first crusade succeeded in taking Jerusalem and was the most successful from the European point of veiw. When Jerusalem felt in 1099 crusaders massacred jews, Christians and Muslims alike