Jerusalem, captured in the first Crusade, was lost in the second, and never recovered.

And so ineffectual had been the expenditure of life, fortune, and enthusiasm that the last Crusade was not even fought in Palestine, but on the shores of North Africa.
But something had been accomplished which none had foreseen: a result of greater magnitude than territorial possession of the Holy Land.
Through the broadening of men's views, and the common heritage of a great experience, a group of isolated kingdoms had been drawn into fraternal relations, and a European civilization had commenced.
There had been many surprises.

Close contact had softened prejudices.
The infidel had found that the crusader was something more than the most brutal and stupid of barbarians, as he had supposed; and the crusader, that the profaning infidel was not the monster he expected to find.

In fact, the European discovered that in the Saracen and the Greek they met a civilization much more advanced, more learned, and more polished than their own.

More civilization was brought out of the East than was carried into it by its Christian invaders.