Introduction There were at least eight crusades in all but four of them were the major ones. The crusades started in the year 1095 with the appeal of Pope Urban II to the European Christians and ended in the year 1291 with the downfall of Acre. Pope Urban II appealed to the people of France to invade Jerusalem and set it free from the clutches of the Muslims (Phillips, 2009). The crusades are portrayed as being wars that had religious intentions but there were several other reasons such as political and economic that led to the crusades. This paper will discuss the first crusade that was fought between 1095 and 1099. West’s reasons for launching the crusade Jerusalem was controlled by Muslims since centuries but they never interfered with the Christian pilgrims due to the reason that they gave them business. The problem crept in when the Turks conquered the holy city (in addition to the adjacent areas) in 1971. The Turks were also Muslims but they ill-treated the Christian pilgrims without knowing the economic benefits that were being reaped due to them. The Turks also invaded Europe many times and even intimidated the Byzantine Empire (Keko, 2010). Considering the grave threat, Pope Urban II appealed to the European Christian community to rise against the invaders and free Jerusalem from the Muslim rule. The profound enthusiasm induced by Pope Urban II served to rouse the exceptional conclusion of the First Crusade. The objectives of the crusade were to recover Jerusalem, support the Byzantine East, and to bring all of Europe under one roof for a respectable cause. The initial Crusades were able to bring together Western Europe for a united cause. The Western society was influenced with the Eastern contemplation and as a result, fresh trade opportunities were perceived between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. In any case the Crusades eventually ended up being a paradigm of an intellectual nature that faced deceit from personal temperament. Ensuing campaigns were controlled by aristocrats (engaged in wars), knights, and priests who battled for control, territory, and wealth. These crusades, especially the fourth one, demonstrated devastating results. One intriguing point is that, while the documentation of incidents for the initial three Crusades were moderately unswerving all around the literature, numerous contradictory descriptions can be found for the fourth and the subsequent Crusades. Is it possible that the historians were not interested any more in the crusades or did the crusades prove to be some dejected episodes? The continuous and vigorous crusades could bring in only interim success. This statement is proved by the fact that the crusades lasted for almost 195 years but Christians were able to establish their authority over Jerusalem for just 88 years. Middle East response to the crusades Muslims of the Middle East were probably enticed to participate in the crusade by the religious sermon of the chief Qazi of Damascus. The Qazi tried to include emotional aspects in his sermon by informing the listeners that their brothers in Syria had no homes left (Irwin, 1997). The listeners included refugees from Syria and Palestine. The Muslim reaction to the advent of Crusaders at the close of the eleventh century was established by the disarray of the Musli