@Msg of Yitzhak Kaduri thx bro . I suppose he is not st Michael right. But he is between Michael and yahweh in authority above Michael but under God the father
The Byzantines calling upon the Pope for help was HUGE because the two did NOT get along. The Byzantines were desperate for help against warring Muslims. That's just history.
+Serbian Space Marines Thats like the French only helping the American Colonies during the revolution because at the time France didnt get along with England, and only wanted England to lose, not the US to win. The US being Byzantines and France being the Pope I guess.
The 4th Crusade: when the side quest affects the main mission. Edit: it’s been a year and I didn’t realize this comment got this many likes, thanks y’all
This is why I keep saying it's impossible to truly judge people of the past by the morals of today (when I say this, I'm speaking of era's, not physical dates). The best thing to do is simply acknowledge that what happened, happened, and learn from it. Don't be afraid of it, and don't forget, because those that forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
Azazel Dryland The crusade lost by a landslide. I didn't even join. I mean, why should I? I've won Jerusalem, Cumania, and Norway through crusades so what do I need India for?
When I think of motivations the crusaders had, I think of the peasants. If I were a peasant at the time, and somebody gave me the opportunity to go on a crusade, I would go without thinking twice. When you think about it, for those people it would be a choice of staying stuck on your farm working the same ol' field day after day, just as your family has for generations, or you can say "screw it all" and go off on a big adventure traveling across Europe with a bunch of other wistful people who want to get away from everything.
Excuse me good sir, your history does not support my contemporary worldview. Please re evaluate your historical interpretation to better suit my opinions or I will call you biased. Thank you for your time.
SonaLilyAnimations i think thats the joke. Most people on videos like this either learn more and it fits what they already thought, or change their views if not (or realize history is complicated). Too many posters get mad that what they watch DOESNT match what they previously thought and comment that the video is wrong. Thats the joke the guy originally posted was making fun of
Joseph Matthews Holy war was always a defensive war against agression of islam..or it was ment to be anyway. It is true tho, that it didn't always go as planned.
+Eric Naylor I'm not sure how he can, after that summary, still speak up for the spiritual motivation of the crusaders and talk about their laudable zealotry and whatnot. By that point their goals were 100% pragmatic and earthly. They didn't give two shits about excommunication or penance or the holy land.
SockPuppet80 Either that or they'd managed to convince themselves that they'd already earned their way into Heaven simply by joining up. Though it could also be that the Byzantines of Constantinople practiced a different form of Christianity than the Crusaders.
But they didn't get excommunicated for sacking Constantinople, they got excommunicated before that, for sacking a Catholic town in modern day Croatia just for the loot (to pay the Venetians for the ride).
+Eric Naylor The Fourth Crusade was literally the biggest disaster to ever befall Christendom. It sealed the fate of the Byzantine Empire, forever estranged the Eastern Orthodox Church from the Catholic Church, and handed one of the most important, populous, and wealthy Christian cities in the world directly over to muslims. The Hagia Sophia is still covered in muslim graffiti even today.
***** My feeling exactly. These kinds of cowards don't realize that if our heroic ancestors didn't campaign against Islam the west would look like a middle eastern slum. They are at it again though...slowly poisoning western society.
Finally a good history channel that covers the Crusades without taking the two extremes of blindly defending the Crusaders or blindly defending the Muslims; and who at least mentions the atrocities committed by the Crusaders against their Orthodox 'brothers', though you could have gone more into the earlier atrocities committed against the Orthodox in Jerusalem and Antioch after the first one. You got a new subscriber.
One of the best history books I've ever read: The Origin of the Idea of Crusade by Carl Erdmann. It's really an argument about the ideological rationalization of Christianity to the warlike principles of Germanic culture, resulting in the concept of knighthood. His key argument: the First Crusade wasn't addressed to kings or states, but to Christian Knighthood as an ideological body. Check it out if you get a chance!
I love Crash Course videos, but this one was especially good. It's so easy to blame war on religion, thank you for explaining the more complex motives underneath!
Quit smoking 3 months ago. Anytime I get the urge (which is more often than you would think) I strike up a crash course vid. Thanks y’all! It’s a satisfying and healthy substitute!
Roman Catholics in Constantinople had been massacred 20 years earlier. Not saying that justifies anything, but relations between the Byzantines and the West had worsened significantly, from the sack of Thessalonica to the German emperors threatening to attack Constantinople, the sacking in 1204 didn't appear out of thin air.
Scroll down into the comments, hoping to find intelligent conversation or comments "nope, seems like no one cared about that end bit about empathy and perspective, and how the narrative of history one's told can shape how you view it. just gonna lose a little faith in humanity now."
Personally I think if the crusades didn't happen, we probably might of been religously tolerant, and accept the fact that we are people with different beliefes. Can't be too sure about it though.
+MexBox Live oh lol. At the time in Europe, if you didn't follow the religion of the monarch, you were considered untrustworthy, disloyal and dangerous. Also, now matter how tolerant people are, unless it is a small country with a similar culture (like Albania) or have aggressive neighbors (like Switzerland), people will try to conform with the majority.
Half of what they earned at times, and youre not allowed to leave your city - It is a protection racket of epic proportions. But oh well, "Just a Tax".
Adding on to what @Marah Irshaid said, the jizya tax amounted to significantly less than the obligatory zakat tax on the muslims. Also, Islam's spirit of pluralism and tolerance for peaceful coexistence resulted in more places of worship of people of other religions than muslims' mosques.
@@mahnoorashraf9123 Sure, what muslims pay every year as zakat , sadaqat ( charity money) is waaaay much greater than what non muslims pay as a tax (jizya) But you know some people just want to define islam as an oppresser authority while it is not , try to read much about islam then talk about it
@@mahnoorashraf9123 ohh come on man u the Fk believes in you? Christians and jews were treated like sh1t! Were there any church?? Even now a days Christians in Muslim country's are tortured and killed! You're blind man, you need to study more before making such affirmations...
If pope really wanted, it would never happen. Don't forget the stolen christian treasures and books from Orthodox churches, decorate today vatican and other catholic churches..
he excommunicated the people who stayed in the city plus the reason why the sack happened is because the Byzantines killed the king that the crusaders helped get into power and the Byzantines never payed there promise (by the way it was the Byzantines who told the Pope and the west for help and the Byzantines never did any hing for themselves). also why Orthodox even care what happened ages ago its not even relevant, also the eastern orthodox should not even get into the sacking and killed there people because today the Byzantine rite s in communion with rome
1)So, the roman catholic crusaders, killed so many orthodox priests and innocent people, ripped women and young girls, because of the money. But, you know, roman catholic crusaders, did terrible things on the Altar of Agia Sophia, with prostitutes insults and massacres. And pope did nothing because of the promised money.. 2)Roman catholic church, became heretic, by Pope Sergius IV (1009 AD), when after the political pressures of the Franks changed itself the symbol of the Christian faith. From 1009 we have the Roman Catholic church, a new church which was cut from the original Orthodox church. So, we wait our roman catholics brothers, to reject heretic teaching and come back to Orthodoxy.
Juan Santiago, stop arguing with this imbecile trol and listen this podcast ( /watch?v=PVcPQsVX8Kc ) about the 4th "crusade", there you will know exactly why this Οριζόντιος Κατακόρυφος is just plain stupid.
Dude I gotta say, you are awesome. You are actually unbiased and aren't a dismissive atheist or a scripture spewing god-botherer. Maybe saying ''I don't know'' gives the universe the respect it deserves. God bless you.
Finally someone that knows history!!! A European 15th Century Poem: "Our faith was strong in th' Orient, It ruled in all of Asia, In Moorish lands and Africa. But now for us these lands are gone 'Twould even grieve the hardest stone.... Four sisters of our Church you find, They're of the patriarchic kind: Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antiochia. But they've been forfeited and sacked And soon the head will be attacked." This is why the Crusades happened.
Ниязи Бекиров look guy, Jesus lived in the "holy land", there's a reason it's named that. There were a hell of a lot of Christians there before the muslims came in.
Hold on, women getting raped and people being killed in WAR? Oh man that's new to me! But the Crusaders had guided missiles and smart bombs as well as CNN on their backs. Oh wait they did not. Really dude, and the Arabs or Moors never ever done that? You do know the Arabs & Moors were conquering many lands before the Crusades happen. That is what that means: "Our faith was strong in th' Orient, It ruled in all of Asia, In Moorish lands and Africa. But now for us these lands are gone 'Twould even grieve the hardest stone.... Four sisters of our Church you find, They're of the patriarchic kind: Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antiochia. But they've been forfeited and sacked And soon the head will be attacked." This a Poem in the Middle ages was describing what happen before & some what after the crusades.
Compared to Christian's murdering e everyone who want them? It was! Edit, sorry to destroy your worldview with facts, but don't worry you can always make up some alternate facts out of thin air.
@@jorenvanderark3567 Not really, in the roman catholic world yes, they were ready to completely obliterate any religion they deemed unfit or pagan, just like in the Islamic world. Zoroastrians were forced to flee Iran just because they were seen as dhimmi and the "peaceful jizya." Yeah, that ended in many getting taken as slaves and were only promised freedom if they converted to Islam. Now you might say that the Byzantine Empire did the same thing to Zoroastrians as well but this is because the Persians were constantly at war with the Byzantines and once this had halted an alliance was formed so to speak. Now, the Byzantine Empire was quite accepting of religions and Judaism flourished pretty well until Justinian who tightened regulations and made life ultimately worse for jews which was wrong. So to say that Islam wouldn't be accepted by Christianity would be quite ignorant especially since Islam was accepted by Axum. And the only reason why bloodshed between the two groups happened was because of the Arab conquests which took down one of the strongest Christian empires, Kushite Egypt and resulted in the killing, convert, and raping of many Christians.
I think this video did a great job of being unbiased and showing understanding to both sides of the crusades. It shows that the crusaders weren’t evil, they were provoked, and that Muslims aren’t evil, they provoked us but ultimately were defending themselves.
The Fourth Crusad: -We couldn't pay for the boats so we're stranded and broke -We tried to attack a Christian city so we're excommuniated, stranded, and broke -We got employed by the soon-to-be dethroned Alexius and ended up unemplyoed, excommunicated, stranded, and still broke. -Screw Constantinople! Pillage time! I know it's terrible, but I can't stop laughing when it's put this way
The sack of constantinople was a retaliation for the Massacre of the Latins (Venetians) which happened a few years earlier in Constantinople. Venetians may have been planning for this all along.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🛡️ Crusades are often romanticized in history but were driven by religious faith.* 00:59 *🕌 The Crusades were partly provoked by the Seljuk Turks' disruption of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land.* 01:53 *🙌 Pope Urban II initiated the first official Crusade in 1095, aiming to unite Europe against a common enemy and reclaim Jerusalem.* 02:19 *💒 Crusades were pitched as pilgrimages with a side of war, appealing to religious sentiments.* 03:47 *🤔 The view of Crusades as European colonization is disputed; religious motivations were significant.* 04:41 *⚔️ Crusaders saw themselves as defenders of Christ and His kingdom, showing strong religious devotion.* 05:36 *🏰 Successful outcomes of the First Crusade fueled belief in divine intervention and motivated subsequent Crusades.* 06:32 *🌍 The Third Crusade was a response to Saladin's capture of Jerusalem, involving prominent European kings like Richard the Lionheart.* 07:55 *⛵ The Fourth Crusade's diversion to capture Zara and Constantinople demonstrated the shift in Crusading goals and led to unintended consequences.* 09:45 *🌍 The Crusades ultimately failed to establish lasting Christian kingdoms in the Holy Land and didn't significantly affect communication or intellectual exchange between Christian and Muslim worlds.* Made with HARPA AI
Endlar Filmations. They say there's no athiest in a foxhole... but imagine fighting with the belief you were sacrificing your right to an existent heaven because it was the right thing to do? :'(
Admittedly, the Crusaders were a slow response to the Islamic Conquest, but they very much were a response. Each of the crusaders were relatively spread out and half-hearted attempts at regaining what was lost to the Arabs. But not only that, the Crusades were necessary to secure the borders of Europe that were constantly under siege by Islamic Jihad. You can't tell me that the Muslims weren't trying to add Europe to their Middle East conquests, or they wouldn't have conquered Constantinople and Spain.
I've been rewatching John Green's Crash Course World History, and I noticed some of the the early episodes (including this one) do not have lists of recommended reading on the subjects. He addressed this in Season 2, but I hope he revisits his old videos and just put his list of sources and books in the description box.
Everyone who is saying the crusades were valid (I won’t fight that) and that we need another one (that I will fight) and that John is being biased, let me tell you, this is what was taught in my world history text book and class. Certified by College Board and backed up but a source list as long as a chapter in the book. This is what is taught in classes because classes are not biased to Europe.
Excuse me, I'm extremely disappointed. There was no Mongols in this episode of Crash Course World History. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost 99% positive, that there was no Mongol joke. Other than that, this was an awesome episode of Crash Course World History. I would just like to thank you for doing this, because every time I watch one of your videos, I believe my brain expands slightly. Also, nice hair.
+Simon Stott The mongols actually did fight an army that was going on a crusade (i think they were georgians?), and they devastated it utterly. It's from one dan carlin's wrath of khan episodes.
@Anton Babani yes the person who has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the thing he is trying to argue against and believes in an invisible deity is clearly the logical rational one here.
@Anton Babani please stop embarrassing yourself, this is just sad, you have clearly been brainwashed and you are resorting to insane logical fallacies while simultaneously trying to call someone who clearly understands reality and history far better than you do. Either make a coherent argument that isn't based on false premises or go away.
@Anton Babani I am an atheist, you are not, you have been lied to by your pastors about what atheism actually is, and you are too unintelligent to realize it. I also understand that atrocities carried out by "atheist" nation's are obviously not because of their atheism, it is a really bad apologetic made up to discredit our position by Evangelical Christian's. Atheism is simply the response to a claim that " a god or God's exist" and the response is "I don't believe you". Obviously it answers nothing else philosophically, that's why most atheist get their worldview from somewhere else. Obviously you can't create a world view off a response to a claim. Now you, being an idiot, believe that without your god, you can't be moral. Fortunately reality disagrees with you since there are far more moral atheists than there are Christian's, case and point, me and you, you have constantly lied or misappropriated history to fit your narrative, rather than actually study these subjects. That makes you intentionally a liar, which I'm pretty sure your god doesn't like (even though he does it constantly throughout your holy book). So I'm sorry that you don't understand atheism, and we're indoctrinated into believing in something that's clearly ridiculous both epistemically and philosophically. But that's not my problem, or anyone else's.
I don't think we are. No one really cares. But John Green sort of skipped that Europeans waged a lot of crusades against Europeans as well. Some crusades were aimed at baltic states or for example against Hussites in the kingdom of Bohemia.
Well, the Byzantines would disagree. Firstly, they wouldn't even know what a Byzantine is, as they called themselves Rhomaioi (gr. romans). And secondly, they were absolutely certain that they still lived in the Imperium Romanum - they wouldn't even know what Eastern Roman Empire means. Modern historians don't have a fixed date of when the Byzantine Empire began, and the term itself was only a crutch for historians to describe the original realm that the crusaders and Venetians split up into the short-lived "Latin Empire" after the 4th crusade.
Thank you! It is so rare to find anything so well understood, and thoughtfully presented. It is especially great that you took the time to address anachronism as a destructive force in the understanding of history. Liked and Subscribed!
you mentioned the tax but forgot the humiliating "laws of Omar" that were meant to to segregate "people of the book" and pretty much invented the concept of the Jewish star sash (later adopted by the nazis).
***** he did lead the arabs very well, this does not mean that he was kind to Jews and Christians. they could live by their rules but degrading restrictions were put on them.
Burhan TheSomali And the Tax non-Muslims paid were mostly for protection from foreign invaders. And didn't they get to rule their own land with their own set of laws?
Yasr Assisou your comment is misleading. the Jisya is protection but not just from foreign invaders. are you muslims because your names seem to indicate it. and if you are how could you not know of the Umar conditions? they are supplementary to the Jisya which as you must know appears in the Kor'an itself. These conditions were added later by a Khalif named Umar (there were several) and restricted Ahl AlKitab much more (not being allowed to carry a weapon or ride a horse and many more...)
Burhan TheSomali that is a little dishonest there was persecution of christians in the roman empire but the empire than became christian. also that is not the point, I was pointing out that that the persecution of Dhimmim was greater that portrayed in the video.
I thank you John Green! For you made my World Religion class much more interesting! My teacher was explaining things dully and everything went in one ear and out the other, not a lot of stuff sunk in. We literally watched your videos for the entire period then some more the next day. So thank you to you and your high school history teacher!
The thing with the knights is not all had crosses on their armor the main ones who did were templars, tuetonics, hospitallers, and the knights of jerusalem
I read my crusades lessons when I was in 9th grade, somehow memorized them and I had to write an essay as a test. Got an A+, it was word for word like my schoolbook.n
Excellent explanation, I'm studying the crusades and this was a very good general synopsis. Good to see anyone that reads a book can actually see that the crusades are completely contrary to the public opinion.
Sheev Palpatine Europe was always weaker in these “Muslims vs Europe” wars before the invention of Gun . Arabs invaded whole Iberia in only 1 year while the Spanish needed 800 years to invade Al-Andalusia . European 9 crusades all lost and every single crusader get butchered by Muslims armies . Even after the invention of the Gun Muslims were still winning “Battle of the three kings & ottoman conquests ” Until 1750~ .
Hassan Bassim Where to start with this mess. Christian armies rebuffed countless attacks from the Muslims, battle of Tours ring any bells? And the Visigothic kingdom was divided and warring amongst itself when it was attacked, the fact that three small and poor Christian kingdoms pushed back the Moors on their own is an amazing feat. You're wrong about the crusades, the first the crusaders won, and in the third Richard the Lionheart wasn't defeated ONCE in battle, defeating Yusef and every other Muslim leader who faced him. Europeans won plenty of engagements and wars against the Muslims before the proliferation of firearms.
+Painting Guy 40k "I have given Jerusalem my whole life. First, I thought we were fighting for God. Then I realized we were fighting for wealth and land. I was ashamed." the Director's Cut particularly is one of the most underrated pieces of cinema in the past 50 years
TIMEtoRIDE900 No he doesn't. Not at all really. Also the supporting cast is infinitely stronger than pirates. Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Eva Green, Ed Norton, etc.
TIMEtoRIDE900 there are huge differences in their characters though. He's not exactly the smartest guy in Pirates but he is extremely intelligent in KOH albeit uneducated on certain things. The motivations of the characters are completely different as well. one is fighting for his family and his future, the other to redeem his own sins. The moral questioning that drives the character of Balien is also completely absent from Pirates. Yes, at the surface they seem similar but the details that make them up make them completely different.
"We're gonna skip the second crusade because it bores me" Portuguese: WHY HAVE YOU ABANDON US? FOR US THE SECOND CRUSADE WAS THE MOST RELEVANT AND IMPORTANT!!!
"We're gonna skip the second crusade because it bores me" Dude thats the one i have a project on!
rip
It must have been good
All you need to know was they kept raping each other and Islam got ahold of it
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Yeah he kinda skipped quite a few parts, especially the specifics of how the crusades started.
knuckles: cracked
Constantinople: sacked
yup.
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It's Always Sunny in the Holy Roman Empire
Alex Miller Underrated thread my brothers ✝️
Actual Factual ?
Marxist “historian” peddling fake history of crusades.
@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs thank you for your opinion, we hate it
views are gonna skyrocket now because of home learning...
Good. UA-cam needs more educational channels, less men wearing makeup and twerking channels
@@legolover6619 how old are you and how long has it been since you've seen the internet lmao
They couldn't just sack the largest city in Christendom, could they?
"The Gang Sacks Constantinople"
Imagine having to fight Muslim in the crusade
- this comment is created by the 4th crusader gang
@Msg of Yitzhak Kaduri Jesus already beat Satan it's called the crucifixion and resurrection.
@Msg of Yitzhak Kaduri yeah they weren't. Also jesus is not equal to yahweh in authority
@Msg of Yitzhak Kaduri jesus is saint Michael the Archangel
@Msg of Yitzhak Kaduri thx bro . I suppose he is not st Michael right. But he is between Michael and yahweh in authority above Michael but under God the father
The Byzantines calling upon the Pope for help was HUGE because the two did NOT get along.
The Byzantines were desperate for help against warring Muslims. That's just history.
Yeah but Serbian Space Marine Chapters are more interesting
+Serbian Space Marines Thats like the French only helping the American Colonies during the revolution because at the time France didnt get along with England, and only wanted England to lose, not the US to win. The US being Byzantines and France being the Pope I guess.
well the pope at the time was excommunicated by the Holy Roman emperor lol
+willie willie And the Byzantine Emperor and Ecunumerical Patriarch (basically the Orthodox Pope) were excommunicated by the Pope as well. :D
+willie willie you mean the emperor (rather German king at this time) was excommunicated by the pope.
The 4th Crusade: when the side quest affects the main mission.
Edit: it’s been a year and I didn’t realize this comment got this many likes, thanks y’all
@@One.Zero.One101 *destroys it instead of the attackers*
Imagine going on a crusade and ending up sacking the largest Christian city in Europe.
😂😂😂
Floppy Cat you certainly deserves one🏆
AP World Test tomorrow. Pray for me!
same. watching at 1.25 speed to try to get as many in as possible and missing out on information by typing this. oops
Same
Same, good luck guys
We can do this.
Grace Carter same same same
They built 500 ships but only 11,000 crusaders showed up because you know I've got other stuff to do etc...
Exactly how the area 51 raid will end up
You weren't wrong
this aged well
yes
This is why I keep saying it's impossible to truly judge people of the past by the morals of today (when I say this, I'm speaking of era's, not physical dates). The best thing to do is simply acknowledge that what happened, happened, and learn from it. Don't be afraid of it, and don't forget, because those that forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
Indeed. We need to make sure that next crusade is successful.
Zorro9129 Yes brother
Me cramming for an exam: “ugh I’m so stuck on the Second Crusade. Ooooh! Crash Course has a video on it. **6 mins 20 seconds later** DAMN IT JOHN!!
I just joined for the crusader trait...
Same
collin rheaume I hate when the Pope calls for an insane Crusade. Like Cumania? Really? Or a nation in India? What?!
Collin Buckman But those India Achievements tho...
Azazel Dryland The crusade lost by a landslide. I didn't even join. I mean, why should I? I've won Jerusalem, Cumania, and Norway through crusades so what do I need India for?
Free heaven pass after all those you assassinated all your inbred cousins
Came to see people argue about religion was not disappointed
Belly Button Benjamin really? Conservative liberal.
@@sonalily6839 you clearly missed the joke of that comment
If you wanted to see people fight in the comments you should have looked at the last video comments lol
Belly Button Benjamin i had no idea people will argue about something that happened hundreds of years ago
Belly Button Benjamin Deus Vult ✝️✋🏼🗡
The only reason I like the crusades is to get that nice crusader trait that gives you +3 martial
Ey that total war refernce doe.
FootnotetoDescartes 95 Crusader Kings 2 actually
I can’t even believe this is 11 years old. Well made with great commitment.
When I think of motivations the crusaders had, I think of the peasants. If I were a peasant at the time, and somebody gave me the opportunity to go on a crusade, I would go without thinking twice. When you think about it, for those people it would be a choice of staying stuck on your farm working the same ol' field day after day, just as your family has for generations, or you can say "screw it all" and go off on a big adventure traveling across Europe with a bunch of other wistful people who want to get away from everything.
"Hey, guys - let's go kill our enemies in the name of the guy who taught us to love our enemies!"
😂😂😂😂😂
Charles McMillion You clearly are an Islamic apologist
@@DarkHallwayz Sorry, Cletus, but I'm Agnostic. You didn't win anything today, but we will send you home with a nice consolation prize.
Charles McMillion aGnOsTiC
What are you talking about?
They loved their enemies with swords and spears
When bae wants to retake Jerusalem
20 minutes into crusade and chill and then Richard leaves.
Peter approves! ;D
roach191 I think I recognize you from somewhere
Tugboat Macguire anyone why says the b word would never be in an actual army and fight.
How did this became memes?
Excuse me good sir, your history does not support my contemporary worldview. Please re evaluate your historical interpretation to better suit my opinions or I will call you biased. Thank you for your time.
SonaLilyAnimations i think thats the joke. Most people on videos like this either learn more and it fits what they already thought, or change their views if not (or realize history is complicated). Too many posters get mad that what they watch DOESNT match what they previously thought and comment that the video is wrong. Thats the joke the guy originally posted was making fun of
ohhh okay
that makes sense
It was a joke, but his take on the Crusades is awful
wat
Joseph Matthews Holy war was always a defensive war against agression of islam..or it was ment to be anyway. It is true tho, that it didn't always go as planned.
After his explanation of the Fourth Crusade, I ended up doing something of a mental facepalm.
+Eric Naylor I'm not sure how he can, after that summary, still speak up for the spiritual motivation of the crusaders and talk about their laudable zealotry and whatnot. By that point their goals were 100% pragmatic and earthly. They didn't give two shits about excommunication or penance or the holy land.
SockPuppet80 Either that or they'd managed to convince themselves that they'd already earned their way into Heaven simply by joining up. Though it could also be that the Byzantines of Constantinople practiced a different form of Christianity than the Crusaders.
But they didn't get excommunicated for sacking Constantinople, they got excommunicated before that, for sacking a Catholic town in modern day Croatia just for the loot (to pay the Venetians for the ride).
SockPuppet80 Yeah, but again, they might have figured that they' already earned a ticket to Heaven. Really, though, who knows?
+Eric Naylor The Fourth Crusade was literally the biggest disaster to ever befall Christendom. It sealed the fate of the Byzantine Empire, forever estranged the Eastern Orthodox Church from the Catholic Church, and handed one of the most important, populous, and wealthy Christian cities in the world directly over to muslims.
The Hagia Sophia is still covered in muslim graffiti even today.
"...and ultimately that exercise in empathy is the coolest thing about studying History."
A+ comment
Do yourself a favor, don't read the comments, it could save your brain cells.
You got my like. But i had to read your comment first...
TheGhostbuster1989 I did not listen to your wisdom and now I regret it.
TheGhostbuster1989 RIP my brain cells
TheGhostbuster1989 Lucky me that this was is the first comment i saw, thanks mate.
lol alright
We romanticize the Crusades? Maybe at one point but nowadays the Crusades are the go to example for people trying to paint Christianity as violent.
Johnny Proctor but we need another crusade...
Johnny Proctor multiple sports teams named after them....I live in oregon theres a Catholic school with them as a mascot
love your enemies... (matt 5:44)
Johnny Proctor
Somehow people do just that but they conveniently ignore Muslim expansion that led to the crusade.
It's a disappointment really
***** My feeling exactly. These kinds of cowards don't realize that if our heroic ancestors didn't campaign against Islam the west would look like a middle eastern slum. They are at it again though...slowly poisoning western society.
So the crusades had nothing to do with stardust?
...I'll see myself out.
everything is made of stadust so yes
+choudhry ali Jacob has a point
i get you man
its been three months... Jotaro doesn't care much for history
Well it weakened the Byzantine Empire by sacking Constantinople allowing it to be taken over by Turks later on
3:19
Reality is often disappointing
-Purple Homer Simpson
haha, nice Thanos quote
@@thepengu1no227 Purple Homer Simpson quote*
the 4th crusade feels like the area 51 raid. "oh i meant to go but i had this thing come up" lol
Finally a good history channel that covers the Crusades without taking the two extremes of blindly defending the Crusaders or blindly defending the Muslims; and who at least mentions the atrocities committed by the Crusaders against their Orthodox 'brothers', though you could have gone more into the earlier atrocities committed against the Orthodox in Jerusalem and Antioch after the first one.
You got a new subscriber.
Am I the only one who's watching this during quarantine?
Well, nothing to do.
Nope
Nope
well i have to for homework
yes
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90% your video is biased
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Biased to whom?
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I was today years that i found out that John Green is a completely different person than Hank
Both are awesome
One of the best history books I've ever read: The Origin of the Idea of Crusade by Carl Erdmann. It's really an argument about the ideological rationalization of Christianity to the warlike principles of Germanic culture, resulting in the concept of knighthood. His key argument: the First Crusade wasn't addressed to kings or states, but to Christian Knighthood as an ideological body. Check it out if you get a chance!
I love Crash Course videos, but this one was especially good. It's so easy to blame war on religion, thank you for explaining the more complex motives underneath!
Eh religion was still used to justify them.
If you want to oversimplify things, then sure, you can say that.
Jacob Lively Just as democracy is.. or ideologi.. or sekularism.. whats your point
chalsfo *Secularism. Religion was used to to justify the crusades, also Secularism isn't used to justify wars.
Jacob Lively Unless you count communists persecuting religious people, like in the Soviet Union or China.
The moment you're so confused about the Crusades even after watching a crash course
rip to everyone taking the ap tomorrow ... unless you're the mongols lmao
watching this right now before my ap
Got mine tmrw
+Alexis Aranda i guess i'm not the only one binge watching crash course the night before the test.
lol
Alexis Aranda
I am Turkish
Richard the Lion heart and Saladin were superstars I wanted to watch re matched on the war
Quit smoking 3 months ago. Anytime I get the urge (which is more often than you would think) I strike up a crash course vid. Thanks y’all! It’s a satisfying and healthy substitute!
Why did you quit smoking? These videos are probably going to kill you 10x faster than smoking ever would.
the crusaders were nothing compared to the Mongols.
For one thing, the Mongols were successful.
FOR THE SKYLORD
Well, that's not the exception.
Two faces for same coin
@Archie HW same thing cant be compared.
Roman Catholics in Constantinople had been massacred 20 years earlier.
Not saying that justifies anything, but relations between the Byzantines and the West had worsened significantly, from the sack of Thessalonica to the German emperors threatening to attack Constantinople, the sacking in 1204 didn't appear out of thin air.
i think beside me you are the only one who pointed out that :D
Maybe not, but it was expressly forbidden by the Pope, and the perpetrators were excommunicated.
Also the Islamic people committed lots of terrible violent acts
And the Arab’s slave trading of non-Muslims killed millions of people
"stupid world, always dissapointing me!"
*mood*
"I am going to drown anticlimactically on the journey while trying to bathe in a river" LOLOL
7:23 the puff meter was so RANDOM
Scroll down into the comments, hoping to find intelligent conversation or comments
"nope, seems like no one cared about that end bit about empathy and perspective, and how the narrative of history one's told can shape how you view it. just gonna lose a little faith in humanity now."
Personally I think if the crusades didn't happen, we probably might of been religously tolerant, and accept the fact that we are people with different beliefes. Can't be too sure about it though.
At least it's not a WBC and New Atheist flame war
+MexBox Live oh lol. At the time in Europe, if you didn't follow the religion of the monarch, you were considered untrustworthy, disloyal and dangerous. Also, now matter how tolerant people are, unless it is a small country with a similar culture (like Albania) or have aggressive neighbors (like Switzerland), people will try to conform with the majority.
so true carl
Jesus, I just love when the uninformed and ignorant start guessing.
Jeez that Saladin guy looks dope
He was a Kurd from Kurdistan:P
Has nothing to do with modern Kurds. LOL Take facts as they are, no need to add nationalism to it.
Hans Carabonala yeah but he lost every battle against Richard the Lionheart
God Emperor Trump lol this is the greatest turd I've read since hearing Trump is the greatest president
God Emperor Trump Richard the lion heart was nothing more then a coward he killed innocent people
"Me from the past", wow he really was a militant atheist back then.
"As long as they pay a tax" You seem to go over that little detail of how much that tax could be.
Half of what they earned at times, and youre not allowed to leave your city - It is a protection racket of epic proportions. But oh well, "Just a Tax".
If you were being tortured, you were already dead.
Adding on to what @Marah Irshaid said, the jizya tax amounted to significantly less than the obligatory zakat tax on the muslims. Also, Islam's spirit of pluralism and tolerance for peaceful coexistence resulted in more places of worship of people of other religions than muslims' mosques.
@@mahnoorashraf9123
Sure, what muslims pay every year as zakat , sadaqat ( charity money) is waaaay much greater than what non muslims pay as a tax (jizya)
But you know some people just want to define islam as an oppresser authority while it is not , try to read much about islam then talk about it
@@mahnoorashraf9123 ohh come on man u the Fk believes in you? Christians and jews were treated like sh1t! Were there any church?? Even now a days Christians in Muslim country's are tortured and killed! You're blind man, you need to study more before making such affirmations...
"Stupid world, always disappointing me!" ~John Green
Thank you so much for all these hilarious/educational videos!
So, Pope's crusaders on 4th crusader, destroy the christian Constantinopolis, kill a lot of Orthodox Christians and stole a lot of their treasures.
pope never ordered the sacking of constantinopolis
If pope really wanted, it would never happen.
Don't forget the stolen christian treasures and books from Orthodox churches, decorate today vatican and other catholic churches..
he excommunicated the people who stayed in the city plus the reason why the sack happened is because the Byzantines killed the king that the crusaders helped get into power and the Byzantines never payed there promise (by the way it was the Byzantines who told the Pope and the west for help and the Byzantines never did any hing for themselves). also why Orthodox even care what happened ages ago its not even relevant, also the eastern orthodox should not even get into the sacking and killed there people because today the Byzantine rite s in communion with rome
1)So, the roman catholic crusaders, killed so many orthodox priests and innocent people, ripped women and young girls, because of the money. But, you know, roman catholic crusaders, did terrible things on the Altar of Agia Sophia, with prostitutes insults and massacres. And pope did nothing because of the promised money..
2)Roman catholic church, became heretic, by Pope Sergius IV (1009 AD), when after the political pressures of the Franks changed itself the symbol of the Christian faith. From 1009 we have the Roman Catholic church, a new church which was cut from the original Orthodox church.
So, we wait our roman catholics brothers, to reject heretic teaching and come back to Orthodoxy.
Juan Santiago, stop arguing with this imbecile trol and listen this podcast ( /watch?v=PVcPQsVX8Kc ) about the 4th "crusade", there you will know exactly why this Οριζόντιος Κατακόρυφος is just plain stupid.
We need another crusade
Tecnovlog no we need peace
hero0291 si vis pacem para bellum
Tecnovlog you already have crusades like BF ;)
My ass
***** and again we have another angry muslim for no good reason at all.
7 years later and we still haven't put a man on Mars.
Dude I gotta say, you are awesome. You are actually unbiased and aren't a dismissive atheist or a scripture spewing god-botherer. Maybe saying ''I don't know'' gives the universe the respect it deserves.
God bless you.
I watched a few of these videos with my history teacher and I am hooked, despite being 11 years late. Keep it up
crusaderes were holy order sent to re-take lost territories.
Finally someone that knows history!!! A European 15th Century Poem: "Our faith was strong in th' Orient, It ruled in all of Asia, In Moorish lands and Africa. But now for us these lands are gone 'Twould even grieve the hardest stone.... Four sisters of our Church you find, They're of the patriarchic kind: Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antiochia. But they've been forfeited and sacked And soon the head will be attacked."
This is why the Crusades happened.
Jerry R Read a history book!
Ниязи Бекиров Yea I do, were do you think I found that 15th Century Poem? Smart one.
Ниязи Бекиров look guy, Jesus lived in the "holy land", there's a reason it's named that. There were a hell of a lot of Christians there before the muslims came in.
Hold on, women getting raped and people being killed in WAR? Oh man that's new to me! But the Crusaders had guided missiles and smart bombs as well as CNN on their backs. Oh wait they did not. Really dude, and the Arabs or Moors never ever done that?
You do know the Arabs & Moors were conquering many lands before the Crusades happen. That is what that means: "Our faith was strong in th' Orient, It ruled in all of Asia, In Moorish lands and Africa. But now for us these lands are gone 'Twould even grieve the hardest stone.... Four sisters of our Church you find, They're of the patriarchic kind: Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antiochia. But they've been forfeited and sacked And soon the head will be attacked."
This a Poem in the Middle ages was describing what happen before & some what after the crusades.
"Tax" = Protection racket.
I like how the icon for the "awesomeness" is the Millenium Falcon
"as long as they paid a tax" - I love how you quickly skim over the jizyah as though it was an entirely peaceful idea.
Compared to Christian's murdering e everyone who want them? It was!
Edit, sorry to destroy your worldview with facts, but don't worry you can always make up some alternate facts out of thin air.
@@jorenvanderark3567 Not really, in the roman catholic world yes, they were ready to completely obliterate any religion they deemed unfit or pagan, just like in the Islamic world. Zoroastrians were forced to flee Iran just because they were seen as dhimmi and the "peaceful jizya." Yeah, that ended in many getting taken as slaves and were only promised freedom if they converted to Islam. Now you might say that the Byzantine Empire did the same thing to Zoroastrians as well but this is because the Persians were constantly at war with the Byzantines and once this had halted an alliance was formed so to speak.
Now, the Byzantine Empire was quite accepting of religions and Judaism flourished pretty well until Justinian who tightened regulations and made life ultimately worse for jews which was wrong. So to say that Islam wouldn't be accepted by Christianity would be quite ignorant especially since Islam was accepted by Axum. And the only reason why bloodshed between the two groups happened was because of the Arab conquests which took down one of the strongest Christian empires, Kushite Egypt and resulted in the killing, convert, and raping of many Christians.
I think this video did a great job of being unbiased and showing understanding to both sides of the crusades. It shows that the crusaders weren’t evil, they were provoked, and that Muslims aren’t evil, they provoked us but ultimately were defending themselves.
*"As usual, you're wrong"*
Didn't come here to be attacked like that
Man, my AP test is on Thursday, I only have 3 days to cram, and I have more tests this week.
... Challenge accepted.
The Fourth Crusad:
-We couldn't pay for the boats so we're stranded and broke
-We tried to attack a Christian city so we're excommuniated, stranded, and broke
-We got employed by the soon-to-be dethroned Alexius and ended up unemplyoed, excommunicated, stranded, and still broke.
-Screw Constantinople! Pillage time!
I know it's terrible, but I can't stop laughing when it's put this way
Laugh away. The Fourth Crusade was a ridiculous waste of time.
The sack of constantinople was a retaliation for the Massacre of the Latins (Venetians) which happened a few years earlier in Constantinople. Venetians may have been planning for this all along.
Should have another one
Joey Tillson you did Bush was the leader, it also was about raiding and stealing
To lose again
MrRamazanLale2 you act like we lost the first couple, and they did achieve their general purpose
Trump salt mining Inc. all European state not Christiane just dream the jihads is one we say and we do
Zakaria Aigel European countries are secular because of the enlightenment m, which still haven't arrived in shithole Muslim countries
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 *🛡️ Crusades are often romanticized in history but were driven by religious faith.*
00:59 *🕌 The Crusades were partly provoked by the Seljuk Turks' disruption of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land.*
01:53 *🙌 Pope Urban II initiated the first official Crusade in 1095, aiming to unite Europe against a common enemy and reclaim Jerusalem.*
02:19 *💒 Crusades were pitched as pilgrimages with a side of war, appealing to religious sentiments.*
03:47 *🤔 The view of Crusades as European colonization is disputed; religious motivations were significant.*
04:41 *⚔️ Crusaders saw themselves as defenders of Christ and His kingdom, showing strong religious devotion.*
05:36 *🏰 Successful outcomes of the First Crusade fueled belief in divine intervention and motivated subsequent Crusades.*
06:32 *🌍 The Third Crusade was a response to Saladin's capture of Jerusalem, involving prominent European kings like Richard the Lionheart.*
07:55 *⛵ The Fourth Crusade's diversion to capture Zara and Constantinople demonstrated the shift in Crusading goals and led to unintended consequences.*
09:45 *🌍 The Crusades ultimately failed to establish lasting Christian kingdoms in the Holy Land and didn't significantly affect communication or intellectual exchange between Christian and Muslim worlds.*
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The 4th crusade sounds like the plot of a Monty Python movie.
Was Scott in the Pilgrimage.
yeah.
he was a real... sexbomb.
(ayyy,someone got the refrence)
+luka peric is good reference comrade
kinda sharp... like knives :v
Daniel Frederick This refrence smells like
...flowers
All I could focus on was your hair and then the puff-o-meter came on screen. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought your hair was amazing!
5:50 Alaska mosque? Man, Islam really was widespread then
Loooool
John Green always makes me laugh, while teaching me at the same time!
When you want John Green to be your AP World History teacher
Templars were willing to sacrifice their rights of going to heaven by protecting their kingdom
+Cancerous tumor gg
Ahahaha there in hell getting raped because they were following satnic chrisianty
+Cancerous tumor who is the question directed to?
Endlar Filmations. They say there's no athiest in a foxhole... but imagine fighting with the belief you were sacrificing your right to an existent heaven because it was the right thing to do? :'(
I hope they made it to heaven, though.
0:01 Welcome to Crash...
**Proceeds to crash into board**
Admittedly, the Crusaders were a slow response to the Islamic Conquest, but they very much were a response. Each of the crusaders were relatively spread out and half-hearted attempts at regaining what was lost to the Arabs. But not only that, the Crusades were necessary to secure the borders of Europe that were constantly under siege by Islamic Jihad. You can't tell me that the Muslims weren't trying to add Europe to their Middle East conquests, or they wouldn't have conquered Constantinople and Spain.
I've been rewatching John Green's Crash Course World History, and I noticed some of the the early episodes (including this one) do not have lists of recommended reading on the subjects. He addressed this in Season 2, but I hope he revisits his old videos and just put his list of sources and books in the description box.
Crash course is awesome! Not just for the facts but also John Green's quickie commentaries on perceptions of history. Witty and true.
Everyone who is saying the crusades were valid (I won’t fight that) and that we need another one (that I will fight) and that John is being biased, let me tell you, this is what was taught in my world history text book and class. Certified by College Board and backed up but a source list as long as a chapter in the book. This is what is taught in classes because classes are not biased to Europe.
The same cannot be said from far right youtubers and bloggers, who use the muslims as a scapegoat
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Text books and classes all derive from one central authority that is extremely biased
Excuse me, I'm extremely disappointed. There was no Mongols in this episode of Crash Course World History. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost 99% positive, that there was no Mongol joke. Other than that, this was an awesome episode of Crash Course World History. I would just like to thank you for doing this, because every time I watch one of your videos, I believe my brain expands slightly. Also, nice hair.
+Simon Stott The mongols actually did fight an army that was going on a crusade (i think they were georgians?), and they devastated it utterly. It's from one dan carlin's wrath of khan episodes.
Fascinating stuff! I think I've found another channel on UA-cam to obsessively devour...
Let's just quickly dismiss the part where 2/3 of Christian lands were conquered so we can start talking about how wrong Europe was.
@Anton Babani hey if you could just define atheism for me that would be great, then I'll correct you.
@Anton Babani right so you are admitting you have no idea what atheism is.
@Anton Babani yes the person who has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the thing he is trying to argue against and believes in an invisible deity is clearly the logical rational one here.
@Anton Babani please stop embarrassing yourself, this is just sad, you have clearly been brainwashed and you are resorting to insane logical fallacies while simultaneously trying to call someone who clearly understands reality and history far better than you do. Either make a coherent argument that isn't based on false premises or go away.
@Anton Babani I am an atheist, you are not, you have been lied to by your pastors about what atheism actually is, and you are too unintelligent to realize it. I also understand that atrocities carried out by "atheist" nation's are obviously not because of their atheism, it is a really bad apologetic made up to discredit our position by Evangelical Christian's. Atheism is simply the response to a claim that " a god or God's exist" and the response is "I don't believe you". Obviously it answers nothing else philosophically, that's why most atheist get their worldview from somewhere else. Obviously you can't create a world view off a response to a claim. Now you, being an idiot, believe that without your god, you can't be moral. Fortunately reality disagrees with you since there are far more moral atheists than there are Christian's, case and point, me and you, you have constantly lied or misappropriated history to fit your narrative, rather than actually study these subjects. That makes you intentionally a liar, which I'm pretty sure your god doesn't like (even though he does it constantly throughout your holy book).
So I'm sorry that you don't understand atheism, and we're indoctrinated into believing in something that's clearly ridiculous both epistemically and philosophically. But that's not my problem, or anyone else's.
Why didn’t I find this channel 10 years ago I would watch this in long form or any form it’s great
LoL, I had no idea most of Europeans were still sensitive about Crusades
I don't think we are. No one really cares. But John Green sort of skipped that Europeans waged a lot of crusades against Europeans as well. Some crusades were aimed at baltic states or for example against Hussites in the kingdom of Bohemia.
And the europeans destroyed the byzantine empire (aka the eastern roman empire)
+pati1234 white Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire weren't the same
Well, the Byzantines would disagree. Firstly, they wouldn't even know what a Byzantine is, as they called themselves Rhomaioi (gr. romans). And secondly, they were absolutely certain that they still lived in the Imperium Romanum - they wouldn't even know what Eastern Roman Empire means.
Modern historians don't have a fixed date of when the Byzantine Empire began, and the term itself was only a crutch for historians to describe the original realm that the crusaders and Venetians split up into the short-lived "Latin Empire" after the 4th crusade.
Apparently modern historians know better than the inhabitants.
Thank you! It is so rare to find anything so well understood, and thoughtfully presented. It is especially great that you took the time to address anachronism as a destructive force in the understanding of history. Liked and Subscribed!
do you do a video on the templars and Free Masons?
Do not forget the scottish rite my friend.
Joseph Stalin
and also the assassins and how they got destroyed by wait for it ... THE MONGOLS
No, he does not.
petitmoh Fennec what is with this whole mongols thing, I don't get it.
toni g It turns out that there are a lot of consistent trends in history, many of which are bucked by the mongols
my history put this up for online school and im wheezing because he says "NaUgHtY wOrDs"
I'm confused by the conclusion...the Crusades sounded sort of like the American campaigns of this century.
yep that about sums it up
Basically. My history teacher introduced the crusades as America declaring war on Iran after 9/11 even though they had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda
axie7 you mean Iraq not Iran
We'll technically they gave asylum to a criminal of the US.
You should make a crash course for social skills because there are a lot of people who don't have them.
*D E U S V U L T*
Dues amici!
Alejandro Lopez WE SHALL TAKE JERUSALEM FROM THESE SACRENS
the common enemy remains the same
"Bohemind of Toronto". Canada fought in the Crusades.
they had might war beavers
you mentioned the tax but forgot the humiliating "laws of Omar" that were meant to to segregate "people of the book" and pretty much invented the concept of the Jewish star sash (later adopted by the nazis).
***** he did lead the arabs very well, this does not mean that he was kind to Jews and Christians. they could live by their rules but degrading restrictions were put on them.
Burhan TheSomali And the Tax non-Muslims paid were mostly for protection from foreign invaders. And didn't they get to rule their own land with their own set of laws?
Yasr Assisou your comment is misleading. the Jisya is protection but not just from foreign invaders. are you muslims because your names seem to indicate it. and if you are how could you not know of the Umar conditions?
they are supplementary to the Jisya which as you must know appears in the Kor'an itself. These conditions were added later by a Khalif named Umar (there were several) and restricted Ahl AlKitab much more (not being allowed to carry a weapon or ride a horse and many more...)
***** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of_Umar - the article is sourced, please read all of it.
Burhan TheSomali that is a little dishonest there was persecution of christians in the roman empire but the empire than became christian. also that is not the point, I was pointing out that that the persecution of Dhimmim was greater that portrayed in the video.
I thank you John Green! For you made my World Religion class much more interesting! My teacher was explaining things dully and everything went in one ear and out the other, not a lot of stuff sunk in. We literally watched your videos for the entire period then some more the next day. So thank you to you and your high school history teacher!
The thing with the knights is not all had crosses on their armor the main ones who did were templars, tuetonics, hospitallers, and the knights of jerusalem
TEMPLARS?! WHERE' ARE THE KENWAYS WHEN YOU NEED THEM?!
@@geeway5923 helping to build a nation
May the father of understanding guide us & Deus Vult
"We haven't put a man on Mars?"
Come on, John from the Past, wait for at least 2028 for that. Then it will be Dear John and Hank.
Who else is WHAP cramming before the test Thursday? D:
How did that go?
I would join any crusade if I was give a sword and a horse
I would join any JIHAD if I was give a sword and a horse (Just War)
Crazed Molotov I would join jihad without any weapon
hafid mohamed I wouldn't for 72 virgins... much rather have like 3 whores that know what they are doing
!rC serch for the truth before you lose every thinghs. the hell baby.
Saladin send u all in hell remember battle of hatien 80k crusades pig has death
I read my crusades lessons when I was in 9th grade, somehow memorized them and I had to write an essay as a test. Got an A+, it was word for word like my schoolbook.n
Excellent explanation, I'm studying the crusades and this was a very good general synopsis. Good to see anyone that reads a book can actually see that the crusades are completely contrary to the public opinion.
1:18 Europe was way too weak and divided in the 8th century to launch an organised attack against the Umayyads.
Sheev Palpatine maybe the umayyads were too powerful.... umayyad bro?
Sheev Palpatine Europe was always weaker in these “Muslims vs Europe” wars before the invention of Gun . Arabs invaded whole Iberia in only 1 year while the Spanish needed 800 years to invade Al-Andalusia . European 9 crusades all lost and every single crusader get butchered by Muslims armies . Even after the invention of the Gun Muslims were still winning “Battle of the three kings & ottoman conquests ” Until 1750~ .
Hassan Bassim Where to start with this mess. Christian armies rebuffed countless attacks from the Muslims, battle of Tours ring any bells? And the Visigothic kingdom was divided and warring amongst itself when it was attacked, the fact that three small and poor Christian kingdoms pushed back the Moors on their own is an amazing feat. You're wrong about the crusades, the first the crusaders won, and in the third Richard the Lionheart wasn't defeated ONCE in battle, defeating Yusef and every other Muslim leader who faced him. Europeans won plenty of engagements and wars against the Muslims before the proliferation of firearms.
The senate is way too weak and divided.
But it still inspired the awesome film kingdom of heaven.
+Painting Guy 40k "I have given Jerusalem my whole life. First, I thought we were fighting for God. Then I realized we were fighting for wealth and land. I was ashamed." the Director's Cut particularly is one of the most underrated pieces of cinema in the past 50 years
+thekillers1stfan Orlando Bloom plays the exact same character in "Pirates"
TIMEtoRIDE900
No he doesn't. Not at all really. Also the supporting cast is infinitely stronger than pirates. Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Eva Green, Ed Norton, etc.
He's a black smith and competent swordsman - self- taught, and he plays the serious, straight man. The focal point of the story-line in both.
TIMEtoRIDE900
there are huge differences in their characters though. He's not exactly the smartest guy in Pirates but he is extremely intelligent in KOH albeit uneducated on certain things. The motivations of the characters are completely different as well. one is fighting for his family and his future, the other to redeem his own sins. The moral questioning that drives the character of Balien is also completely absent from Pirates. Yes, at the surface they seem similar but the details that make them up make them completely different.
"We're gonna skip the second crusade because it bores me"
Portuguese: WHY HAVE YOU ABANDON US? FOR US THE SECOND CRUSADE WAS THE MOST RELEVANT AND IMPORTANT!!!
Tiny European armies beating back powers capable of raising 100,000 mens at arms easily is nothing short of a miracle.
Uhh they lost?
Luigi DeNardis tbh Turkish people started all of this crusades and such
I use his videos in my history class.
am i the only one who just want to know general Salahuddin
he was a very interesting man. there is an Egyptian movie about him which may help