Nationalist movements in the Ottoman Empire helped Europe by weakening the empire as a whole - d
Because there were different nationalist movements in the nations that were conquered by the Ottoman empire, they could undermine Ottoman authority and rule and slowly but surely make the populace believe that they should revolt against the Ottoman people.
Because Northern Europe recovered later form the Black Death
The English and French were engaged in the Hundred Years’ War
Basically the European Catholics helped the Roman <span>Orthodox when they got friendly enough and the Romans Desperately needed help with the Muslim Turks. </span>Pope Urban II he argued that it was a Christian duty to help the Byzantines against the Muslims. He backed this up with a edict forbidding Christians waging war on Christians except on alternating weekdays, and with a rousing speech that was distributed and publicly read by the clergy throughout the Catholic area.
What was the Result? The Crusades, w<span>hich lasted for roughly 2 centuries, and one of which ironically ended up administering the </span>coup-de-grace on the Byzantine empire<span>.</span>
They were able to freely pick whatever life style/ beliefs as they pleased. In england you could only strictly be protestant for example, and a huge majority no longer wanted to abide by that. So, going to new england gave opportunity for those individuals to have independent beliefs without being judged and executed for those decisions ( This would happen in England btw) . Without being dictated the colonists had the right to be free of expression and mind.