Why Did the Crusades Stop? (Short Animated Documentary)

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  • @ThatGUY666666
    @ThatGUY666666 3 роки тому +6642

    “This is a secular conquest” might just be my new favorite sign

  • @nawwafsudi9761
    @nawwafsudi9761 3 роки тому +4795

    "Crusading was one of medieval europe favourite past time"
    Starting strong aren't we.

    • @Whatever4867
      @Whatever4867 3 роки тому +27

      ye but sadly u became weak so fast

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 3 роки тому +150

      @@Whatever4867 Seethe harder

    • @stc3145
      @stc3145 3 роки тому +13

      It was Sigurd I favorite Vacation

    • @TentaclePentacle
      @TentaclePentacle 3 роки тому +12

      for someone who calls himself history matter, actually history matters really little to him.

    • @quidam_surprise
      @quidam_surprise 3 роки тому +30

      @@TentaclePentacle
      To be fair, it is first and foremost a statement

  • @xanderx2523
    @xanderx2523 3 роки тому +1782

    The pope was so sad because his power declined, he didn't even feel like running through the flower field...that's actually kinda deep...

    • @blueblack3591
      @blueblack3591 2 роки тому +26

      hahahaha why does this make me laugh?

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 7 місяців тому +4

      lik if u cri evrytiem

  • @WillHerrmann
    @WillHerrmann 3 роки тому +2571

    The last crusade was in 1938 when Indiana Jones and his father sought out the Holy Grail before Nazis could get to it.

    • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
      @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 2 роки тому +55

      I've watched that one as well! After that was done, the world was done with crusading!😉

    • @Demmrir
      @Demmrir Рік тому +173

      This is a history channel. Please be accurate.
      His name was Henry Walton Jones, Jr. Indy was the dog's name.

    • @thomasrice4930
      @thomasrice4930 Рік тому

      The Crusades ended because the Templars took all the important religious relics back to France

    • @SYH653
      @SYH653 Рік тому +24

      ​@@Demmrir Indiana was the dog's name; "Indy!" was the troubled cry of Junior's many assistants/hangers-on.

    • @joeerickson516
      @joeerickson516 Рік тому +21

      "He chose...poorly?"

  • @staticshockk
    @staticshockk 3 роки тому +1940

    Kelly moneymaker and rob waterhouse living in james bissonet shadow every day 😭

    • @alexander1055
      @alexander1055 3 роки тому +345

      If Kelly was a Moneygiver and not a Moneymaker then maybe she would be mentioned first.
      And if Rob can't afford a Watermansion then he can't afford to outpledge James.

    • @ΆρωμαΜπλε
      @ΆρωμαΜπλε 3 роки тому +46

      @@alexander1055 can't disagree

    • @corneliuscapitalinus845
      @corneliuscapitalinus845 3 роки тому +52

      Imagine caring about anyone other than Bisonette

    • @gideonmele1556
      @gideonmele1556 3 роки тому +7

      Pseudonyms for the same person...
      or organization

    • @ZechsMerquise73
      @ZechsMerquise73 3 роки тому +20

      @@corneliuscapitalinus845 James Bissonnette first, family second.

  • @siljeff2708
    @siljeff2708 3 роки тому +2953

    I love how how the people being burned at the stake have a blank expression!

    • @patrickiamonfire965
      @patrickiamonfire965 3 роки тому +134

      They knew it would come to this so decided that’s life and didn’t give any satisfaction to their torturers.

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 3 роки тому +54

      Jesus' "why tho?" face at Henry the VIII lmao

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 роки тому +50

      @@patrickiamonfire965 I burned a tiny bit of my finger yesterday and the pain was there.
      Imagine burning at the stake and not caring.

    • @WaltherPPK909
      @WaltherPPK909 3 роки тому +4

      I'm going anyway!

    • @justanotherbaptistjew5659
      @justanotherbaptistjew5659 3 роки тому +7

      @@JonatasAdoM Jan Hus sang hymns while being burned alive.

  • @erikarzensek
    @erikarzensek 3 роки тому +1112

    "You only keep trying the same thing so many times before it just seems silly.."
    Generalissimo Luigi Cadorna- Visible confusion

    • @MilesStratton
      @MilesStratton 3 роки тому +38

      Ha! I understand this reference...

    • @fable1109
      @fable1109 3 роки тому +72

      nonsense... we will take caporetto this time promise

    • @ashleyoasis7948
      @ashleyoasis7948 3 роки тому +6

      Seems relevant in today’s foreign Middle Eastern wars

    • @ZayanK
      @ZayanK 3 роки тому +29

      Isonzo River PTSD intensifies

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 3 роки тому +19

      @@alexjv1370 but... the first, third and sixth crusades worked

  • @EndOfSmallSanctuary97
    @EndOfSmallSanctuary97 3 роки тому +770

    Hilariously, when General Allenby entered Jerusalem in 1917 he apparently proclaimed himself as a modern crusader come to retake an ancient Christian city. When the British government heard about this they were furious because it offended Britain's millions of Muslim subjects, and Allenby was forced to publicly apologise.

    • @basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126
      @basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 2 роки тому

      so britain was cucked even back then

    • @SweetTeaConnoisseur
      @SweetTeaConnoisseur 2 роки тому +43

      Modern Crusader?
      STAND UP
      JOIN US
      MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE
      ("Modern Crusaders" is an Enigma song that appears in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.)

    • @jesucristobostero3287
      @jesucristobostero3287 Рік тому

      Modern england is a shameful existence for ancient medieval crusader england

    • @billbadson7598
      @billbadson7598 Рік тому +87

      _”When the British government heard about this they were furious because it offended Britain's millions of Muslim subjects, and Allenby was forced to publicly apologise.”_
      How did Britain’s millions of Muslim subjects feel a few decades later when they turned the whole place over to an explicitly jewish ethnostate? Did they apologize again?

    • @midothunderstorm7738
      @midothunderstorm7738 Рік тому +29

      @@billbadson7598 Apparently no, because the British themselves were hit by the very same thing they created.

  • @lteht6919
    @lteht6919 3 роки тому +645

    The "Do it for Her" got me in the feels

    • @Itachi951000
      @Itachi951000 3 роки тому +4

      Which the kingdom of France as effigy... Matches perfectly! lmao

    • @matthewgigs3456
      @matthewgigs3456 3 роки тому +8

      WOW I don't even notice that 😂

    • @jessabell7364
      @jessabell7364 3 роки тому +4

      I was trying to figure that sign out. Was trying to fit the little shapes (the crown, the Sputnik looking thing) into it.

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 3 роки тому +1

      Normie

    • @ixlnxs
      @ixlnxs 3 роки тому

      @Stefan Berger Ah ok thx. I was stunned!

  • @toshomni9478
    @toshomni9478 3 роки тому +561

    Interestingly the Crusader states actually endured for hundreds of years so it's more like the Crusades had huge success at first before gradually declining for a variety of reasons.

    • @mmaa5109
      @mmaa5109 2 роки тому +73

      Not really; they succeeded because the Middle East was in a dreadful turmoil, and then the Mongols arrival bought some significant extra time there.

    • @AlexanderRM1000
      @AlexanderRM1000 2 роки тому +91

      They tried like 4-5 more crusades after the 4th one was the last one that managed to take any territory even temporarily (and that one destroyed the Byzantine Empire instead of fighting Muslims)
      The real reason they stopped going to the Holy Land to fight though was because the Ottomans invaded the Balkans and they started organizing leagues against them much closer to home.

    • @mmaa5109
      @mmaa5109 2 роки тому +12

      @@Tzimiskes3506 actually, it's very precise

    • @luisaymerich9675
      @luisaymerich9675 2 роки тому +12

      The crusaders were successful in Spain, Malta, and Lepanto.

    • @duhman3649
      @duhman3649 2 роки тому +53

      @@mmaa5109 That's only one of the reasons, The Crusaders during the first crusade were actually very disadvantaged when you think about it. The main reason the First Crusade was successful was because believe or not they were genuinely determined to take the Holy Land and rid themselves of all their sins, which the Pope promised to all participants in the Crusade, and because the crusader generals were brilliant strategists. Bohemond of Taranto for example managed to defeat Ridwan of Aleppo at the battle of the Iron Gate despite being outnumbered 12:1.

  • @spambot6959
    @spambot6959 3 роки тому +862

    Faster than the speed of a dying snail in the backyard

    • @MusaGaming
      @MusaGaming 3 роки тому +5

      i can assure you that hell a lot faster than me

  • @number1kenyan
    @number1kenyan 3 роки тому +353

    1:41 I like how displeased Jesus looks as Henry makes his own church. They might just be boxes +clothes, limbs and faces but their expressions are still funny lmao.

  • @SamAronow
    @SamAronow 3 роки тому +128

    0:48 the more complicated reasons:
    - Egypt was on the upswing and Europe was out of money
    - Nobody liked the Lusignans
    - The mercantile and political powers had no more reason for fighting since Egypt and the Crusaders had established freedom of movement in order to fight the Mongols
    - The Pope was more interested in feuding with the Holy Roman Emperor

    • @hmmm3210
      @hmmm3210 2 роки тому +10

      @@Bondyespeaks that's like saying Norman England isn't England lol. The Mamluks operated from Egypt and were very much an Egyptian state. Just like the Albanian Muhammad Ali dynasty was still Egypt.

    • @THE_APK20
      @THE_APK20 3 місяці тому

      ​@@hmmm3210mamulucks started in Saudi Arabia/ Yemen territory as they well rebel against ayyubid sultan

  • @jaredgaston3305
    @jaredgaston3305 3 роки тому +621

    How is no one talking about the “Do it for her” sign?😂😂

    • @penguin_lich
      @penguin_lich 3 роки тому +54

      YESSS the simpsons reference killed me at 1:04

    • @robbieflores7712
      @robbieflores7712 3 роки тому +7

      That's why I love this channel 🤣

    • @RyanLucroy
      @RyanLucroy 3 роки тому +2

      I was looking for this comment 😂😂

    • @nicocola284
      @nicocola284 3 роки тому

      Keepcup i know

    • @wilhelmbittrich88
      @wilhelmbittrich88 3 роки тому +1

      Literally laughed out loud when I saw that

  • @wariodude128
    @wariodude128 3 роки тому +77

    Ah, that death thud sound never gets old. For some reason, whenever I hear it, I smile.

  • @ianlang9925
    @ianlang9925 3 роки тому +500

    Love the Simpsons reference you slipped in at 1:04

  • @Dr-Weird
    @Dr-Weird 3 роки тому +190

    HM: Why did the crusades stop?
    Crusader Kings 1,2,3: *Am I a game to you?*

  • @ayylmaoo7071
    @ayylmaoo7071 3 роки тому +77

    I cannot even express how full of happiness i am when HM uploads a new video.

  • @AshPrimeDCFC
    @AshPrimeDCFC 3 роки тому +37

    The "Do it for her" reference was a very nice touch!

  • @TheFriendlyCorgi
    @TheFriendlyCorgi 3 роки тому +186

    As a side note: 4-5 crusades were called to bohemia by the popes, (called the husseite wars), kept failing resulting in a decline of fervor for crusading against heretical movements. I'll probably make a video on the topic myself after I'm finished writing about it.

    • @Barcaplsfkinwin
      @Barcaplsfkinwin 3 роки тому +12

      It's been 8 months, where is that video?

    • @Biiiiitnfish
      @Biiiiitnfish 3 роки тому +3

      @@Barcaplsfkinwin We who liked this, 8 months ago remain waiting... Good thing i didnt hold my breath.

    • @davidduchesne8421
      @davidduchesne8421 3 роки тому

      doo it

    • @mario0318
      @mario0318 2 роки тому +8

      Guys, contain yourselves please. The dog said "probably make a video". That should have been enough to avoid this debacle.
      Alas, it's been 10 months now, dogmanfriend. Where are the moving pictures? Does corgi wanna play? Corgi wanna fetch? Yeah? Come on then, bud! Go fetch the video! Who's a good boy! Go fetch it!

    • @jeremywilliams5107
      @jeremywilliams5107 2 роки тому

      Always best to write it first 😀 There has to be a reference at the end to "defenestration" and it's tricky to get the concept over. Give the guy/gal a break.

  • @tinman123456789
    @tinman123456789 3 роки тому +392

    Me: I really need to get all my work assignments taken care.
    UA-cam Alerts: NEW HISTORY MATTERS VIDEO!!!
    Me: Work who?

    • @acanadiancapitalist2107
      @acanadiancapitalist2107 3 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @gabrielsim6340
      @gabrielsim6340 3 роки тому +5

      *What work?

    • @zeinmaslida
      @zeinmaslida 3 роки тому +3

      Right? I was doing my school assignments when this popped up, and I couldn't resist but to click on the video

    • @CatholicWeeb
      @CatholicWeeb 3 роки тому +8

      It's been 3 Minutes & video finished:
      a.) Watch another video
      b.) Finish Work
      c.) Contemplate while doing neither
      d.) Stare into space

    • @tinman123456789
      @tinman123456789 3 роки тому

      @@CatholicWeeb Watch another History Matters video is the only answer 😂

  • @DBlockSquadron
    @DBlockSquadron 3 роки тому +175

    0:13 "its entirely personal" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @omnitroph1501
      @omnitroph1501 3 роки тому +2

      If religious conflict counts as personal, I guess.

    • @owenjames8575
      @owenjames8575 8 місяців тому

      ​@@omnitroph1501they do

  • @Isdeka02
    @Isdeka02 3 роки тому +465

    The fastest click on the West

  • @johantolli372
    @johantolli372 3 роки тому +30

    I just wanna say i really enjoy these short history lessons. Well done!

  • @miguelrodriguezcimino1674
    @miguelrodriguezcimino1674 3 роки тому +47

    I feel there was a missed opportunity for a joke involving Cervantes' hand at the battle of Lepanto

  • @seanfitzgerald4804
    @seanfitzgerald4804 3 роки тому +172

    You should do a video about the Worlds or Europes reaction to the English and Scottish Act of Union

    • @Admiral45-10
      @Admiral45-10 3 роки тому +6

      Or Polish-Lithuanian Lublin Union of 1569

    • @TSmith-yy3cc
      @TSmith-yy3cc 3 роки тому +25

      French: "Friendship ended with Scotland."
      "Friendship started with..."
      "Fuck."

    • @Le0n76
      @Le0n76 3 роки тому +1

      I guess they didn`t really care maybe France but in general Scottland was more a problem for England than important for Europe

    • @mg4361
      @mg4361 3 роки тому +12

      @@TSmith-yy3cc not really. By that time Scotland and England had been in personal union and had a shared foreign policy for centuries. The Act of Union only formalized that fact. I guess the world kind of just took notice and had to adapt to the new nomenclature, like when Swaziland became Eswatini.

    • @jesseberg3271
      @jesseberg3271 3 роки тому

      It was probably mostly either polite attempts not to laugh at the name, or in France's case, impolite laughter with no restraint at all.

  • @Chris14_
    @Chris14_ 3 роки тому +69

    This channel better have 1 mil by the end of 2021 its really underrated

  • @kenjifujimori2793
    @kenjifujimori2793 3 роки тому +68

    This is my favorite youtube channel at all it's telling history easily

  • @onlinegladiator5888
    @onlinegladiator5888 3 роки тому +21

    When people in Europe don’t know what to protest about 0:04

    • @SirBolsón
      @SirBolsón 4 місяці тому

      Accurate even now...

  • @kerberospresents2862
    @kerberospresents2862 3 роки тому +11

    Whenever I see an upload from History Matters, I have a sudden urge to run through a field of flowers.

  • @Ruosteinenknight
    @Ruosteinenknight 3 роки тому +29

    01:34 This actually happened to King Richard, who was considered THE crusader king. His own brother, prince John tried to overthrow the regent appointed by Richard to rule instead.
    Yes, he's that John, from Robin Hood: also called John Lackland, because he wasn't expected to inherit anything. Fun fact: Magna Carta exist because of him, though not because he was forward thinking monarch. No, he was so utterly bad at being king(he kept feuding with nobles and pope and losing english posession in france) that both nobles and commoners alike thought it's high time to have some protections against possibility of his kind of screw up taking the throne again. To this day, not another english king has taken name John.

    • @AndrasMihalyi
      @AndrasMihalyi 2 роки тому +8

      And since then the english slang for toilets is "john" 😀

    • @MsLogjam
      @MsLogjam 2 роки тому +3

      No Ethelwulfs or Ethelreds either. They should bring back some of those old Saxon names.

    • @the_tactician9858
      @the_tactician9858 2 роки тому +3

      Also, while Magna Carta was the first instance of what would later become a constitutional monarchy, the charter itself was very aristocratic in nature, as the barons all realised that they could get buck out of this inexperienced and hated king, so they twisted John's hand into signing a document that basically guaranteed wealth, power and influence for the nobility, as well as some rights for commoners to sweeten the deal (although these had little importance for the following centuries). This power for the nobility proved to be both a boon for the nation, as England could call upon a big number of skilled commanders in wars to come, and a curse, as the power of noble families allowed the Rose Wars to ignite so heavily. However, Magna Carta did prove to be a source of inspiration for both the Bill of Rights (cementing the British constitutional monarchy) and the American Declaration of Independence, as both documents used the MC as a legitimisation for their decision to reduce British royal power.

    • @akechijubeimitsuhide
      @akechijubeimitsuhide Рік тому +2

      John just seems unlucky. France had 2 Johns, one died when he was a few days old (totally definitely not from poison) and the other was a total failure.

  • @kauffner
    @kauffner 3 роки тому +22

    When the Crusaders lost Acre in 1291, many considered this to be God's judgement against the whole crusading project. The Templars were dissolved in 1307. If you still wanted to crusade after that, you could join the Knights of Malta. Napoleon took Malta in 1798 and brought crusading to end.

    • @Practitioner_of_Diogenes
      @Practitioner_of_Diogenes Рік тому +2

      While the Templars were dissolved and hunted down, one country wasn't a fan of that... The group is no longer called the Templars or anything of that nature (and no, I'm not referring Assassin's Creed here), and is currently named "Military Order of Christ".

    • @kets4443
      @kets4443 3 місяці тому

      Napoleon didn't "end Crusading" or it's orders, not only do some of them still exist in different forms but really "crusading" of an actual religious nature stopped at least 100, if not 300 years earlier

  • @mochalo4912
    @mochalo4912 3 роки тому +18

    Well , when the british took jerusalem , one major oficer anounced that " Now the crusade wars are finally over "

    • @DM-dy9bq
      @DM-dy9bq 3 роки тому +7

      Then the brits gave them to jews
      Jews : ✌️

    • @fuseydunae397
      @fuseydunae397 3 роки тому +4

      @@DM-dy9bq they gave 50% to jews and 50% to palestinians...

    • @DM-dy9bq
      @DM-dy9bq 3 роки тому +1

      @@fuseydunae397 thats not the point here

    • @notyeet8683
      @notyeet8683 3 роки тому +8

      The biggest mistake they did was splitting the land batween the Jews and Muslims they should just make one nation 2 religion

    • @fuseydunae397
      @fuseydunae397 3 роки тому +1

      @@notyeet8683 soo true.

  • @guidolensen1629
    @guidolensen1629 3 роки тому +21

    I love these video’s. It happens often that I see the question in your thumbnail and immediately think “damn.. that’s a really good question. I want to know the answer NOW!” How do you come up with all these questions?

  • @nathanielflorendo5190
    @nathanielflorendo5190 3 роки тому +3

    Always a pleasure hearing History Matters mentioning James Bissonette on the special thanks part.

  • @bjk03_62
    @bjk03_62 3 роки тому +99

    Never stopped crusading to Jerusalem so quickly

    • @hospitallercross1155
      @hospitallercross1155 3 роки тому

      Are u Turkic? I can see it by ur name

    • @bjk03_62
      @bjk03_62 3 роки тому

      @@hospitallercross1155 yeah, it obviously just Was a joke tho

  • @bobbycrenshaw5167
    @bobbycrenshaw5167 3 роки тому +3

    You are one of my favorite UA-cam Channels. Look forward to each new one posted. Keep up the great work.👍

  • @general_jacob3227
    @general_jacob3227 3 роки тому +31

    I just finished learning about this in my history class like a month ago. Edit:Thank you for all these like. It means a lot

  • @kellymoneymaker3922
    @kellymoneymaker3922 3 роки тому +40

    I truly look forward to these videos. ❤️
    Thank you, History Matters, for all the research, energy and time you devote to these wonderfully informative, yet thoroughly entertaining videos.
    Cheers🥂

  • @dejanvujicic7668
    @dejanvujicic7668 3 роки тому +5

    This is one of my favourite history chanell,cuz it is just so consistant and fun.
    Thank you sir for unlimited knowledge!

  • @mighty_99d56
    @mighty_99d56 3 роки тому +13

    Thanks for featuring me :)

  • @markb1935
    @markb1935 3 роки тому +5

    Thanking the Patrons at the end is the best 😂 I love it ❤️

  • @breakerdawn8429
    @breakerdawn8429 3 роки тому +14

    Dang, imagine a crusade during WW1 lead by the British, seem would be a good alternate history novel.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 3 роки тому +3

      Europe did dismantle the Ottoman Empire after WW1, was that considered a crusade?

    • @breakerdawn8429
      @breakerdawn8429 3 роки тому +14

      @@Crashed131963 Not really since it was more for national interest than any religious beliefs.

  • @gunner38ED
    @gunner38ED 3 роки тому +12

    The first 3 parts were good but then it got repetitive and they tried to add some flavour by attacking the Byzantine Empire and the Lithuanians.
    People simply got bored of producers trying to save an old show betraying their fanbase and the Crusades were cancelled. Their new spinoff, american native conversion was pretty successful but short.

    • @vladprus4019
      @vladprus4019 3 роки тому +3

      The 4th installment was especially convoluted with creators circumnavigating basically everything in order to make main conflict somehow happen with a lot of sudden changes of plans of many characters.

  • @jaytheman9271
    @jaytheman9271 3 роки тому +22

    I'm not a history geek (which is why I need this channel), and you can only squeeze in so much in so short a time, but in Australia WWI was advertised, at least to some people, as the final crusade. The Anzacs talked of "Constantinople" and not "Istanbul".
    I can to an extent imagine people being shamed by some religious leaders and therefore trying to sideline peace-loving Christian religious leaders as irrelevant by framing the war in secular interests. Or perhaps as a way to justify religious fanaticism - "I'm doing it (or rather - pretending to do it) for non-religious reasons."

    • @jeannebouwman1970
      @jeannebouwman1970 2 роки тому +5

      Istanbul was still constantinople back then, the name change came with the founding of Turkiye

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie 2 роки тому

      Constantinople still had its old name. And the UK cared more about their colonies and money than religion and converting people. If the UK actually got Constantinople after WW1, they would have just turned it into a colony, similar to Egypt and the middle east. The UK didn't care what religion you were, you were just their property, lol.

    • @desichalkos5627
      @desichalkos5627 2 роки тому +4

      @@jeannebouwman1970 Turkey*

    • @plumebrise4801
      @plumebrise4801 Рік тому +2

      @@jeannebouwman1970 Turkey*

  • @Harold-Hardrada
    @Harold-Hardrada 3 роки тому +8

    I can't help but feel the discovery of the "New world" also played a part

    • @stevenglowacki8576
      @stevenglowacki8576 3 роки тому +5

      Well, the discovery of the New World was driven in part by the Spanish finally deciding to give money to Columbus now that Span had finished conquering Grenada and were looking for something else to spend money on. This was alluded to in the video.

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 3 роки тому

      @@stevenglowacki8576 The invasion of Turtle Island was still down the road, he probably didn't want to cause a fuss saying 'The Inquisition' going on then.

  • @stevenchoza6391
    @stevenchoza6391 3 роки тому +51

    Last time I was this early, James Bissonette wasn’t a thing yet.

    • @KonigHoff
      @KonigHoff 3 роки тому +6

      Impossible, James Bissonette is omnipresent

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 3 роки тому +1

      @@KonigHoff James Bissonette Hu-Akbar

  • @volbound1700
    @volbound1700 3 роки тому +21

    You forgot that one of the primary reasons for the Crusades was to stop violence at home. Catholic Church kept wanting to stop violence in Europe so they made a ton of Holidays but that didn't work. Then they decided to just call the armies up to go fight someone else once they got the request from help from the Byzantines.

    • @kurt4320
      @kurt4320 2 роки тому +14

      This is true. The Crusades caused the greatest decline in violence in the history of Europe. Before the Crusades, European duchies and baronies were at constant warfare with each other because armies were paid by plunder. The Church taught the Just War Theory saying war had to be for a just cause, not just plunder. The Crusades created the idea of a standing army, paid a salary. The Crusaders also invented banking so that persons were not robbed when travelling, another cause of the decrease in violence.

    • @alanpennie
      @alanpennie Рік тому +4

      "Go and cause trouble somewhere else" energy.

  • @AlexS-oj8qf
    @AlexS-oj8qf 3 роки тому +10

    I believe the Collapse of Byzantium is the main reason, because the frontier moved from Asia Minor to Hungary so why fight a war in lands so far behind the enemy's line when there's literally Hungary and Mediterannean to protect?

    • @senadneslan1563
      @senadneslan1563 3 роки тому

      what happened when the Hungarians waged a crusade with Bosnia ... heheheh

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 11 місяців тому

      It didn't collapse until the 15th century though. The last Crusade to the Holy Land ended in 1270.

  • @danielgrech9644
    @danielgrech9644 3 роки тому +2

    At 2:09 Malta is shaded brown to signify being part of the Ottoman Empire. Malta was never conquered by the Ottomans.

  • @ilxstrado6778
    @ilxstrado6778 3 роки тому +5

    A wild "new running through the flowers animation" appeared

  • @alexs6746
    @alexs6746 3 роки тому +3

    I love how all the characters have the same expression
    It’s all “I don’t want to be here but I don’t have much of a choice”

  • @KalinkaValletta
    @KalinkaValletta 3 роки тому +6

    The Knights of Malta disagree with the map at 2:00 (see the Great Siege of 1565)...

    • @zanthe1
      @zanthe1 5 місяців тому

      As a Maltese person thank you I was just about to comment about it myself

  • @karunyaasribashyam1465
    @karunyaasribashyam1465 3 роки тому

    Your videos are becoming more humourous day by day

  • @williamking6787
    @williamking6787 3 роки тому +1

    Gotta love an old timey British gentleman with a "how silly" sign

  • @murphyx217
    @murphyx217 3 роки тому +7

    This is a 3 minutes videos, and It has so much information. This is awesome.

  • @TheRewasder97
    @TheRewasder97 3 роки тому +8

    The brits: *finally make Lionheart proud*
    Also the brits: *instantly say that isn't their intention, half ruining a potential "better late than never" meme*

  • @FPSGamer48
    @FPSGamer48 3 роки тому +7

    Love every one of your videos. Suggestion: Why does Brunei exist? I’ve always wondered why it wasn’t just conquered by the Dutch like the rest of Borneo

  • @snuggery6486
    @snuggery6486 3 роки тому +1

    Great start to the day seeing a new video

  • @georgeheld1901
    @georgeheld1901 3 роки тому +1

    2:31 apparently the French general in charge of conquering Syria spat on Saladin’s tomb, claiming that “my victory has permanently consecrated the cross over the crescent”

    • @mahdimehdi445
      @mahdimehdi445 3 роки тому

      even at that time in france no one was giving fuck about christianity

    • @georgeheld1901
      @georgeheld1901 3 роки тому

      @@mahdimehdi445 yeah I know he was just showboating (this was right after WW1)

    • @mahdimehdi445
      @mahdimehdi445 3 роки тому

      @@georgeheld1901 After the french revolution ,christianity was declining ,even the christians weren't acting as christians

    • @georgeheld1901
      @georgeheld1901 3 роки тому

      @@mahdimehdi445 I’m not trying to argue with you about the religiosity of the French in the early 20th century, I’m was just saying what he said

    • @mahdimehdi445
      @mahdimehdi445 3 роки тому

      @@georgeheld1901 i m not trying to argue too ,i just said it ,maybe you don't know ,just to inform

  • @tritium1998
    @tritium1998 3 роки тому +11

    The 13th Century before the Fall of Acre (1291) was also when the Mongol Empire linked up with Europe through the Silk Road.

  • @orsolyafekete7485
    @orsolyafekete7485 3 роки тому +9

    2:26 It would have been funny though if the British had retroactively declared WW1 a Crusade :P

    • @ProjectEkerTest33
      @ProjectEkerTest33 3 роки тому +5

      The first and only Anglican crusade. It's like a Catholic crusade but with more tea and queuing.

  • @FutureMatrioshkaBrain
    @FutureMatrioshkaBrain 3 роки тому +3

    "Do you know what the definition of insanity is? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" - Vass to the Crusaders

  • @johnmichaelreyes2587
    @johnmichaelreyes2587 3 роки тому

    Before I open the vid I wanna say I'm really excited when I saw you did a video on this! Thank you ^^

  • @TheDeuced1
    @TheDeuced1 3 роки тому +2

    Fun anecdote about the secular conquest of jerusalem by the brits, when the french general entered damascus around the same time he did see it as a final victory of the Crusaders and paid a visit to Saladin's tomb there.

    • @ihavenojawandimustscream4681
      @ihavenojawandimustscream4681 3 роки тому +2

      Understandable really,France must've gotten butthurt considering their epic loss in the final crusade

    • @CaptainDecimus
      @CaptainDecimus 2 роки тому +2

      Possibly just a legend, but I love this story. The general was said to be Henri Gouraud. “Following the Battle of Maysalun, Gouraud went to the Tomb of Saladin, kicked it, and said: Awake, Saladin. We have returned. My presence here consecrates the victory of the Cross over the Crescent."

  • @heliosapollyon4391
    @heliosapollyon4391 3 роки тому +17

    " it's entirely personal" !!!! That is classic!😁

  • @meanwhileinthemindofagoril1343
    @meanwhileinthemindofagoril1343 3 роки тому +11

    0:51
    "they did many crusades, some of which almost didn't fail"

  • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
    @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 3 роки тому +15

    1:05 that Simpsons bit brought back a lot of memories. 😢
    Mostly from when the simpsons was good.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Рік тому

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff

  • @TheIestynrhys
    @TheIestynrhys 3 роки тому +2

    Will there be any more of those 10 minute documentaries? I really enjoyed those

    • @Doogie2K3
      @Doogie2K3 Рік тому

      No, he said in a Q&A some years ago now that they took too much work for the risk of demonetization, since history channels often deal with sensitive subjects that can get them smacked arbitrarily. Even if it's just a cartoon Hitler looking angry.

    • @TheIestynrhys
      @TheIestynrhys Рік тому

      @@Doogie2K3 a damn that's a shame, I used these videos for my history lessons

  • @civi4ever460
    @civi4ever460 3 роки тому +7

    Would be really interesting to know about world's reaction to British conquest of Jerusalem

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 3 роки тому

      Weren't the Brits on their last leg and Balfour offered it to the Zionists if they'd bring U.S. into WWI?

  • @مالكالقطيف
    @مالكالقطيف 3 роки тому +9

    2:34 for the british that is right... They saw the crusades as a silly idea, BUT for the french the story is different : when the french general goro first controlled Damascus the first thing he have done is entering the grave of saladin and saying : you thought that you kicked us out but now we have returned... The french were troops with the weapons of 20 century but with the idiology of the 10 century 🙄

  • @angryferb1079
    @angryferb1079 3 роки тому +13

    I'm playing Crusader Kings 3 as I watch this. Lol

    • @noblenaveragemanointernet2582
      @noblenaveragemanointernet2582 3 роки тому +3

      Me too !

    • @iihamed711
      @iihamed711 3 роки тому +1

      is it good?

    • @angryferb1079
      @angryferb1079 3 роки тому

      @@iihamed711 I love it, it's tricky and challenging at first but it has become one of my favorite games.

    • @mahdimehdi445
      @mahdimehdi445 3 роки тому

      bruh ,i hate when the Umayyad of cordoba got devided after the death of muhammad I

  • @SgtPeppersLonelyhearts
    @SgtPeppersLonelyhearts 2 роки тому +1

    A jazz musician named Teri Pall invented a version of the cordless phone in 1965 but could not market her invention, as its 2-mile (3.2 km) Range caused its radio signals to interfere with aircraft communications. In 1968, she sold her rights to the cordless phone to a manufacturer who modified it for practical use.

  • @nitroglitch45
    @nitroglitch45 3 роки тому +2

    I love the Simpson's reference 1:04

  • @najehfamily6157
    @najehfamily6157 3 роки тому +8

    2:31 i didn't know you could write in arabic but you nailed it except for the vowel move on every letter if you were to do it on one otherwise you would have done it perfectly

  • @leok888
    @leok888 2 роки тому +3

    It would be interesting to see a video about Saladin.

  • @vipshnu
    @vipshnu 3 роки тому +3

    Luther just prancing away. I love it.

    • @victorconway444
      @victorconway444 3 роки тому

      Protestantism is also interesting in the context of this video considering that the Ottomans actually provided safe haven and support to Calvinists and Lutherans during the Reformation. The Turkish sultans were more than happy to help the Christian world self-cannibalize so as to weaken the Holy Alliance. They offered money, troops, and even military alliances to various German princes, the Dutch revolts, and even England against the catholic emperor Charles V. Martin Luther himself complimented the Turks as "the rod of God's wrath for Europe's sins." Some historians (like M.E. Sharpe) argue that the Muslim patronage to the Reformation was the main reason Lutheranism was able to survive Catholic persecution unlike previous heresies, long enough for the HRE to concede the Treaty of Augsburg to the protestant princes. Some take it a step further and draw theological connections between Protestant Christianity and Sunni Islam. Particularly their common views on Icons, scripture, marriage, the clergy, etc.

  • @joz6683
    @joz6683 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks once again for a great video short, humours and informative well done...

  • @ZachFury
    @ZachFury 3 роки тому +2

    What is the map at 1:32 supposed to indicate?

    • @bitspokes496
      @bitspokes496 3 роки тому

      Protestant vs Catholic

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ 3 роки тому

      @@bitspokes496 Pretty sure the Reformation wouldn't happen before a couple centuries. And Portugal, Northern Italy, Ireland, Poland aren't really Protestant lands...

    • @Significantpower
      @Significantpower 3 роки тому +2

      To represent that parts of Europe recognized different Popes.

  • @minjajovanovic6501
    @minjajovanovic6501 3 роки тому +3

    Fun fact: During the mid 14th century, Serbian emperor, asked for cruside against Ottomans, but the pope refused.

  • @thewallachianvoivode8476
    @thewallachianvoivode8476 3 роки тому +7

    Because most of them failed excluding those in Iberia and also Europe was in a much weaker position after the end of the black death and preferred to concentrate more on its own inner problems оr holding the ottoman expansion rather than expanding its influence outside the mainland up to the discovery of America when western powers started to be more interested about expanding their influence in the newly discovered lands and at that point, crusading started to be seen as something from the past.

    • @henrycarpenter5733
      @henrycarpenter5733 2 роки тому

      That's a very long sentence!

    • @pjq420
      @pjq420 2 роки тому +1

      You're one hilarious guy for saying he's an Islamic apologetic which we doesn't even considered anything about him to be qualified as one

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Рік тому +1

    First crusade: *Fails*
    Pope: If at first you don't succeed, try again

  • @pokepunk69
    @pokepunk69 3 роки тому +1

    That "Do It for her" sign tho, so clean.

  • @windingsarcasm9046
    @windingsarcasm9046 3 роки тому +44

    Muslims and Pagans: * Exist *
    The Pope: * And I took that personally.... *

  • @awkwardsean5141
    @awkwardsean5141 3 роки тому +75

    They found all the dangerous apocryphal stuff and their mission was complete.

    • @anotherguycalled6253
      @anotherguycalled6253 3 роки тому +3

      Not really

    • @fuseydunae397
      @fuseydunae397 3 роки тому +3

      umm no,simply european powers didnt want to waste their powers and also they started trading with muslim empires. at that time muslim technology and culture was very advanced,so they decided to trade with them instead of antagonizing them.

    • @anotherguycalled6253
      @anotherguycalled6253 3 роки тому

      @@fuseydunae397 yh pretty much

    • @Jelly_Juice2006
      @Jelly_Juice2006 3 роки тому

      @@fuseydunae397 its a myth that the Muslim world was more advanced, they were equally advanced in terms of society

    • @fuseydunae397
      @fuseydunae397 3 роки тому

      @@Jelly_Juice2006 umm,no its a historical fact. learn some history.

  • @lightninghoodie9408
    @lightninghoodie9408 3 роки тому +33

    Day 5 of commenting under History Matters, and asking for them to make a video on both Sudanese civil wars.

    • @Protostarofficial
      @Protostarofficial 3 роки тому +5

      Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message

    • @lightninghoodie9408
      @lightninghoodie9408 3 роки тому +5

      @@Protostarofficial Thanks Bernie Sanders!

    • @emrmmtmhmt7315
      @emrmmtmhmt7315 3 роки тому +2

      there are really so much conflict u can make videos about in africa

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson 3 роки тому

      War in Sudan? What a Mahdi idea. :)

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 3 роки тому

      Normie

  • @Pro39-thesigma
    @Pro39-thesigma 5 місяців тому

    In the map of 2:07, Malta was actually an extremely important catholic base against the Ottomans as it was under the Knights of Saint John who continued the Corso against muslim powers until 1798 when napoloen kicked the Order out

  • @cadensauerbrey9005
    @cadensauerbrey9005 3 роки тому +1

    It is my birthday and I can think of no better gift than a new History Matters video. Thank you!!

  • @Carl-p3e7z
    @Carl-p3e7z 3 роки тому +5

    1:18 What time did Hungary look like that?

  • @nightazday7988
    @nightazday7988 3 роки тому +3

    imagine going to a crusader and tell them "good news Britain conquered Jerusalem bad news it was a secular conquest and they quickly gave it up"

    • @lukeshaul820
      @lukeshaul820 3 роки тому

      The modern Middle East is a much different place than the Middle East of 550-800 years ago.

  • @morsecode980
    @morsecode980 3 роки тому +11

    Fun fact: there could have been a tenth crusade initiated against the Ottoman Empire by Pope Pius II and Thomas Palaiologos (brother of the last Byzantine Emperor) in the 1460’s following the fall of Constantinople. Several Christian countries in Europe were on board with it.
    However, Pius II died and his death pretty much fizzled out any wanting to do a crusade, even though the armies were literally gathered and ready

  • @amongusgaming123
    @amongusgaming123 Рік тому

    Let my essay bibliography be a permanent memorial to your greatness

  • @alexanderyagiela1724
    @alexanderyagiela1724 Рік тому

    Do it for her was probably the best reference on all of UA-cam

  • @davidb3155
    @davidb3155 3 роки тому +43

    Not a single death flop or soon sign. My dissappointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined.
    Edit: Nvm, I've been corrected. There is a death flop so my day is only "half" ruined.

    • @ThiagoSantos-ey7km
      @ThiagoSantos-ey7km 3 роки тому +10

      What about 2:13 ?

    • @cdhilton7124
      @cdhilton7124 3 роки тому +1

      @@ThiagoSantos-ey7km 🧐🤯

    • @Gargasmello
      @Gargasmello 3 роки тому +4

      There was a death flop when he talked about the decline of the ottoman empire.

  • @crusader7659
    @crusader7659 3 роки тому +19

    They're not over, we've just been on vacation for the last few hundred years, but don't worry. The next crusade will be released before the end of the decade.

    • @miguelangelhernandezsolis7849
      @miguelangelhernandezsolis7849 3 роки тому

      I bet not
      Christianity has lost a lot of his former power

    • @iplyrunescape305
      @iplyrunescape305 3 роки тому

      Greeks still want Constantinople back, so for sure the energy for a crusade still lives.

    • @miguelangelhernandezsolis7849
      @miguelangelhernandezsolis7849 3 роки тому

      @@iplyrunescape305 that will be more of a political move not Christian

    • @iplyrunescape305
      @iplyrunescape305 3 роки тому

      @@miguelangelhernandezsolis7849 Uh no, it's Christian. Constantinople was the center of Christianity for hundreds of years up until it fell.

    • @AndreLuiz-sv5me
      @AndreLuiz-sv5me 3 роки тому

      @@miguelangelhernandezsolis7849 It lost it's power in Europe, but in Africa, for example, Christianity is growing.

  • @ldlq804
    @ldlq804 2 роки тому +3

    In Spain the nationals often called the civil war "the crusade"

  • @noon8681
    @noon8681 3 роки тому

    Love your channel mate

  • @icecoldpolitics8890
    @icecoldpolitics8890 3 роки тому

    I love the "It's entirely personal sign" might be my new favorite.

  • @Jack209
    @Jack209 3 роки тому +5

    1:43 anyone else notice how the people being burned alive seem totally calm and normal?