The “enemies” of the Church in Europe included people who were not Christians. It also included Christians who were labeled heretics, that is, people who challenged the official teachings of the Church or who questioned the pope’s power and authority.
Millions of people, Christian and non-Christian, soldiers and noncombatants lost their lives during the Crusades. In addition to the enormous loss of life, the debt incurred and other economic costs associated with the multiple excursions to the Middle East impacted all levels of society, from individual families and villages, to budding nation-states. The wars also resulted in the destruction of cities and towns that lay in the crusaders’ wake. In his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon refers to the Crusades as an event in which “the lives and labours of millions, which were buried in the East, would have been more profitably employed in the improvement of their native country.”
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The correct answer is D. The cotton gin increased cotton production. - Slavery increased in the South.
Explanation
At the end of the 18th century, the cotton gin was created, a machine created with the utility of separating natural residues adhered to cotton fibers quickly and easily. One of the consequences of its creation was the increase in slavery because this machine allowed the landowners of the southern United States to easily and easily increase their cotton production. Therefore, they increased the number of slaves to pick larger amounts of cotton. This caused that slavery was one of the pillars of the economy of the south reason why the landowners were opposed of radical form to the abolition of the same. So the correct answer is D.
