What was accomplished by the Crusades? Would you rate them as successful or not?

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In a more general sense, the city of Jerusalem was never permanently taken, so one could consider the series of Crusades to be a failure, particularly given the number of Crusades that were launched. The first group of people to arrive to help were the poor people's Crusaders, who were ejected from Constantinople by Alexius I Comnenus and then killed by the Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor. The official Crusades were undertaken by professional soldiers and knights, which was what Urban II had intended. This development made the significant point that in the conflict between temporal and ecclesiastic powers, there was only one pope who was responsible for the command of all the nobility and knights of Europe, rather than individual temporal rulers. In a positive light, the Crusades brought the people of western Europe face to face with others, such as Muslims and Byzantines, and showed them a different world. Additionally, the reconnection with Constantinople (which had previously had a trade monopoly with Venice) brought trade goods and opportunities to the Western world, as well as introducing it to a number of cultural and intellectual advancements.