First Jihad Against the Crusaders - First Crusade #16 DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the First Crusade continues with the aftermath of the battle of Civetot of 1096 ( • People's Crusade: Batt... ) during the so-called People's Crusade of the First Crusade and the battle of Nicaea of 1097 ( • Princes' Crusade Begin... ) as the Princes' Crusade began. The Crusaders continued moving into the Asia Minor and had to fight against the forces of the Seljuk Sultan of Rum Kilij Arslan in Dorylaeum ( • Battle of Dorylaeum 10... ) and after the victory over the sultan, the road to Syria was open, leading to the Siege of Antioch in 1097-1098 ( • Siege of Antioch 1097-... ), but the partial victory of the crusaders in this siege was followed by a counter-attack of various Seljuk generals, leading to the biggest battle of the First Crusade - the battle of Antioch ( • Biggest Battle of the ... ). In the aftermath of the battle, the crusade almost collapsed, as the infighting between the princes became too difficult to resolve leading to a Civil War like situation ( • Civil War of the First... ). Despite this situation, Crusaders managed to retain some of their unity and continued deeper into Syria, where they fought at Ma'arra. Unfortunately, that was the battle that turned them into cannibals ( • Battle that Turned Cru... ). The issues persists, but the majority of the remaining Crusader army finally reached Jerusalem and besieged it ( • Siege of Jerusalem 109... ). In the aftermath of taking Jerusalem, Crusaders needed to secure the city against the Fatimid counter-offensive, which led to the last battle of the First Crusade - the battle of Ascalon ( • Last Battle of the Fir... ). It was followed by the Crusade many consider to be the worst - the Crusade of 1101 ( • Worst Crusade - Crusad... ). In the aftermath, Crusaders lost the battles of Ramla and Harran, and one of them - Bohemond, decided to go on a first crusade against the Romans - Byzantine Empire, leading to the siege of Dyrrhachium of 1107-08 against the emperor Alexios ( • First Crusade Against ... ). Meanwhile, to the east, the fight for the Holy Land continued and the Seljuk sultan Tapar launched the first ever Jihad against the crusaders, leading to the battle of Shaizar.
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[@kristiawanindriyanto5765]

Alexios' greatest skill is his cunning and intrigue, one of the most underrated Roman Emperior. Serious credit for this series to portray Alexios in such prominence.

[@b_rob3318]

When creating his character Alexios maxed out his cunning and intrigue first.

[@theawesomeman9821]

not bad for a Byzatine

[@TheStrategos392]

Alexios Komnenos plays chess while everyone else plays checkers.

[@stevenverdoliva6217]

That seems to be the story of most Byzantine history.

[@zippyparakeet1074]

If only Manuel had the political shrewdness of his grandfather or the military might of his father. The Empire might have regained all of Anatolia and parts of Italy- basically close to Basil II's territorial extent 😔

[@paulmer87]

@@zippyparakeet1074Manuel had the largest army out of the Komnenian Emperors and I would argue that Manuel was at least as politically savvy as his grandfather to have been able to navigate the slightly more complicated chess board that he had to deal with. You are correct though, had Manuel’s plans succeeded, we would be hearing a completely different story

[@zippyparakeet1074]

@@paulmer87 I'm not talking about the size of the army but the military acumen of his father John II. Agree with you on the rest though 100%.

[@SavvaSou]

My favourite Byzantine Emperor

[@LoneWanderer727]

Alexios is the player in a Paradox strategy game who is spamming diplomatic proposals, sending gifts, spending political power and constantly boosting foreign relations. Eventually someone will agree!

[@philtkaswahl2124]

In this series Alexios demonstrates how to deal with everything being on fire while standing on one foot atop a unicycle while juggling.... chainsaws.

[@MicaiahBaron]

"He finished his pilgrimage by praying in Jerusalem, bathing in the river Jordan, and laying siege to Sidon." That last part made me burst out laughing; that's such a Crusader pilgrimage it's ridicilous.

[@Luke_Danger]

Why let a little siege get in the way of a good pilgrimage?

[@H4kkk0]

The guy is a legend haha

[@xeLJoYo]

He was king of Norway after all - he simply honoured his viking ancestors!

[@stephenbaluran3298]

This whole series made me realize that students of political science should forget about Machiavelli and study the OG himself, Alexios Komnenos.

[@JohnnyElRed]

The Latins working together against a common enemy? Without betrayal, grudges, or disputes over territory? Ha! That would be the day.

[@adi862]

Who is the enemy?

[@DestroyerOfSense000]

The Judean People's Front?

[@lambert4116]

I can only assume that the final episode will feature the death of Baldwin I as well as Ager Sanguinis and the near destruction of the Principality of Antioch. Excellent stuff.

[@nenenindonu]

Apparently Kilijarslan's burial place has been excavated quite recently in the first month of 2021, interesting given that he died in a rather obscure way

[@jaohonaxa]

Alexios really was one of the only figures in this series that knew how to play the long game. Both Crusaders and the Muslims were squabbling with each other and he kept focused.

[@KingsandGenerals]

It is true that he was capable, but he was also blessed with luck. Many Muslim leaders died of random sicknesses in that period. Continuity was super helpful during that period.

[@georgechristman6920]

@@KingsandGenerals Well to that I would say that it's about freaking time the Byzantines had some luck for a change!

[@barissaaydinn]

I don't think you guys should stop taking sponsorships. It is already incredible that we can watch these videos for free. I'm a member myself and don't mind seeing sponsors in videos especially since they take only about a minute. Just keep up the good work! (and for god's sake speed up the coming of the Roman videos lol)

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

Fully agree, I never get the annoyances with Sponsorships. Unskippable ads, yeah But sponsorships are In the video. You can just skip ahead if you really don't want to see them

[@barissaaydinn]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 Fr, plus I love k&g humour there. Expanding as swiftly as the Caliphate, is our sponsor Raid Shadow Legends...

[@Kaiyanwang82]

"These engagement where part of everyday life in the levant" For the life of me, I cannot imagine the levant like this. Also lmao at both muslim and christians infighting. This puts a lot of perspective to this "clash of civilizations" and how much many things are just used as an excuse.

[@karma916]

People (especially those with some strange agenda to push) like painting things in simple terms (black and white, good and evil) but history is way more nuanced and a lot of times very convoluted.

[@Mohammadkwt]

There was lots of engagements in the levant for a long time ago. Specially when the europeans came in Roman Empire, Byzantines, crusaders, and heck maybe we add the sea people. The mongols had a brief campaign. Finally, the when Europeans came back again. The people of the region despite their differences, can stabilize it better than others.

[@angelb.823]

So, the trick to defeat the Seljuks is to stall them long enough, build a defensive formation, never pursue them during feigned retreats, and hope one year that their resources would be depleted in a war-style attrition battle, which would force them to give up the fight? That's kind of a wishful miracle to happen in reality. Rarely a battle like that can happen during the Middle Ages. I'm not saying that's impossible, but a rare example to show in the history of warfare.

[@ElBandito]

Or you know, invest in Pavise Crossbowmen.

[@zippyparakeet1074]

The Byzantines had perfected nomadic warfare early in their history. Emperor Maurice wrote in his Strategikon that the best way to defeat nomads was to rely on highly disciplined and heavily armored troops. His troops would simply advance towards the nomads at a medium pace while being in the fulcon formation and would simply ignore any and all arrow fire, while returning fire with their own infantry archers. Infantry archers do more damage than mounted ones due to them having heavier bows and more arrows, nomads were also lightly armored which made them pretty vulnerable to arrow fire and so they would break and retreat.

[@georgechristman6920]

That's certainly one way to defeat a nomadic army, and most likely in the next episode we will see how Alexios marched deep into Seljuk Anatolia and defeated the Turks in the Battle of Philomelion in 1116, basically by forming a strong square phalanx of infantry in the centre, from where the cavalry could launch counterattacks.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Spam, ignore

[@angelb.823]

@@KingsandGenerals Ahh! Okay.

[@dr.sandersonwoods4128]

The tactical ingenuity and the diplomatic intrigue of alexios is just chef's kiss he's probably one the most underrated byzantine emperors of all time love how this series shows this character in a better light

[@josephdee4649]

I hope you continue this crusades series to cover all the following crusades~ us history nerd are beyond blessed every week watching this channel ❤

[@Tony_Ugatz]

Just so you know this and the wizards channel are my favorite type of content. Keep it up!

[@anotherguycalled6253]

Finally the episode I've been waiting for

[@darthfatcow5725]

One has to admire the political and diplomatic genius of Alexios. Also, are you planning to cover the second crusade? It's an often overlooked event that doesn't get much coverage.

[@Swift-mr5zi]

Literally any historical event... Some dude on the internet: 'Its an often overlooked event that doesn't get much coverage'

[@kumebannerlord]

Finally a medieval time video. Please upload more frequently on the crusades, ottoman and other medieval videos

[@adamwee382]

Damn. i thought you were done with this. Keep it going, it's arguably the best series on this channel. You might just keep going it into the crusader states or something. I'll keep watching.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Mashallah fantastic video. A video on Imadudin Zangi would also be interesting

[@robbabcock_]

Thanks for another wonderful video!

[@Kabeersingh-zm7qe]

Finally I was waiting for this video

[@trockenerkakau6585]

thought this was the last but another one after this hope it will be a great and epic conclusion of your series

[@HumaTheGreat]

How you accepting defeat when your enemy retreating LOL

[@zippyparakeet1074]

The enemy was making a tactical retreat, not yielding so the Turks gave up because there was no way they could break the crusaders and a frontal assault would have been suicide. It was a useless enterprise so the soldiers gave up.

[@HumaTheGreat]

@@zippyparakeet1074 That should be at least draw, not defeat.

[@zippyparakeet1074]

@@HumaTheGreat if your enemy's soldiers abandon the fight and run away then it's a defeat. Soldiers back then fought for plunder on a campaign, armies also had tight supply constraints. If it looks like your enemy will hold out for a long time then many soldiers simply abandoned the campaign.

[@emIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII]

let's goo!! a new video about crusade!!

[@brokenbridge6316]

Alexios was one cunning SOB. Right up till the end. Nice video.

[@user-pc9gi5kg6k]

Your manner of Video making is incredible! You should do an animation tutorial on how you create your videos :D

[@EnclaveEmily]

It's been a wild ride, this series.

[@Gamer_Bro_Z]

You are my inspiration for learning history

[@vulpoiul7538]

You're doing a million dollar job. Keep it up. This is the way

[@peggysue5025]

The fact that we get free videos from Kings and Generals on KZbin is priceless .... keeping the education and knowledge alive 🙏🙏🙏

[@mikemodugno5879]

Totally want to see Norwegian king's adventures. Looking forward to it.

[@Louis-ji3sn]

The Norweigan King's story would be great.

[@Apollonear]

1st crusade part 24, the 3rd crusade 😂

[@KingsandGenerals]

Nope, the next episode will conclude the series :-)

[@CrusaderMapper]

@@KingsandGeneralslet me guess, Battle of Ager Sanguinis?

[@Khattab511]

@@KingsandGenerals can you make videos about the other crusades ? All I see is 1st and 3rd crusade videos, what about all the other crusades ?

[@CrusaderMapper]

@@DimitarFCBM oh right I forgot

[@thomasrinschler6783]

I really hope you do make your video on the Norwegian Crusade - it's such an interesting story.

[@Louis-ji3sn]

Great video I learned some things I didn't read about.

[@SkyIon]

Please continue accepting sponsors. For a channel your size that gets a million views a week, receiving thousands per month from sponsorships alone is well deserved. You guys deserve to be paid well.

[@williamromine5715]

I agree. I don't see anything wrong in having sponsors. I, too, am a member, at the age of 81, I believe people are entitled to be paid for their labor. This channel does great work in putting out an outstanding product. We should be grateful that we can watch it for free. I don't have much use for those commenters who complain about sponsors. I am sure they expect to be paid for their labor. Why they seem to think the people presenting channel aren't, is beyond me.

[@Aginor88]

Intressant som vanligt.

[@-RONNIE]

Good video thanks 👍🏻

[@Al-Numan361]

The one with the most patience, gets the most luck.

[@Mikebumpful]

This series really drives home how misguided the “war of civilizations” narrative really is!

[@chibble3591]

Love this point in history. Also, when is the next video about the Post Caesar Civil Wars?

[@christopherg2347]

13:34 "Praying in Jerusalem, bathing in the Jordan and laying siege to Sedon." So, is that last thing a normal part of a healthy pilgrimage?

[@elvisrodriguez2935]

I love this channel

[@calidone7661]

why was battle of harran (1104) was not covered which was more important than shaizar, from many aspects?

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

Excellent episode! Can't wait for the next one. Spoilers below: The two Baldwins, Roger of Salerno, Pons, Ilghazi, Tughetkin, Lu'lu and Thoros all coming together to fight off an invasion ordered by Tapar.

[@potatoebot2739]

Great video

[@gustavogregory9906]

I've noticed that every time a new commander is talked about on here, Rise Of Kingdoms has the same commander coming up

[@barakato]

Copycats

[@mostafa_hafiz]

You make awesome videos for free Thank you so much for doing that guys

[@Vodal_Kressh]

Amazing video! Yes, you definetely should make videos about both Norwegian and the Venetian crusades. In my opinion after finishing histrorical events in the crusades, you should make a video about all Jerusalem Kings. Another great subject would be the Reconquista after the Crusades

[@cassiusijeomah4239]

One Of The Best Stories Of The Crusades I Always Enjoy Listening To It

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[@KingsandGenerals]

Ignore, it is spam

[@theromanorder]

Can you make a modern warfare video on carrier strike group formations and exsplaning what each do, I know theres different formations and probably good to talk about all countries

[@thecrashtestguy2750]

King of Norway ended his holiday with a good ol fashion seige.

[@liberalgoodi]

Thanks informative

[@shimazutakuma1031]

I find it funny that when you highlited the terms Knight, Infantry and Archer's in red, i saw it as 'KIA' dunno if it is intended or not 😅

[@NSC776]

Eid Mubarak 🙌🏽

[@calidone7661]

20:18, Ataturk dam didnt exist back then, it was built in 20th century :)

[@kovanmo9791]

Can u make a video about Mitanni . It look very interesting of mizobotamia

[@jamesforreal]

When you look at this time period, any one of these factions could have dominated the area and perhaps established dominion over all of it. It's too bad they were busy with all kinds of intrigues. Great video!

[@ShiramuUltraDelta]

Will you cover all eight crusades?

[@johnmorris9535]

Can you provide a list of tracks used for the background music?

[@Insanestsage]

the byzantines during this crusade were basically when you're playing a total war game and you keep trying to build diplomatic relationships with other factions but they continuously spit in your face and leave you isolated and desperate

[@filippospaulou1761]

Please do a documentary about second crusade after

[@YahiaTheGreat]

I am sure you should cover the Fatimid Egyptians 14 invasions between 1099 and 1118. They should be considered as 1st Jihads against the crusaders as well, as they were a caliphate in their own right, a rival to the Abbasids & Seljuks of Baghdad though.

[@nerdelf3704]

Can you focus on battles more and include more total war animations? @kingsandgenerals

[@lerneanlion]

I never get one thing. Whenever migrations happened in the past, wars always come as the results? What did the tribal chieftains will gained by leading their own peoples into wars against the settled civilizations in the first place? I mean, if they wanted stuffs from them, then trade with them. If they wanted plains for their herds of animals to graze, I doubted anyone will even argue.

[@AdityaSingh-bi6fu]

Bro can you make karokata dynasty Kashmir king Lalit Aditya muktpida he defended india form Arabs and Turks Invaders Can you make 3indian empire fight for kannauj know as trapite struggle 8th century to 10th century pls make this

[@giannisa2337]

What a crazy world in just 100 years the byzantines went from basil s superpower to conpletly losing anatolia ans then somehow the crusaders take over the levant and byzantium is resurgent

[@zippyparakeet1074]

They were this strong despite losing their heartland. Imagine how strong they would have been if they didn't lose Anatolia. Could have retaken Egypt with Latin support. The Latins also would have been more controllable due to the Empire having much more military and economic might. If leaders like Alexios and John had succeeded Basil then the Empire would have taken all of the Fatimids' lands, Sicily, Southern Italy and subjugated Venice. Basically return to the Empire as it was in 395 AD, an unquestionable superpower.

[@giannisa2337]

@zippyparakeet1074 well actually after alexios there was an emperor that planned and prepared the reconquest of Egypt but died due to illness some months before the launch such a shame

[@IWS107]

After the last video on the 1st crusade...let the 2nd crusade begin!

[@HomemdaFaina]

"How good do you want your historical videos?" Kings and Generals: "Yes."

[@SlashHarkenUltra]

Cringe.

[@LucasSouza-kw1wl]

You need to made Alternate History with the Sucessful of Bohemond Crusade and the Alliance of Papal States and Byzantine against Holy Roman Empire!

[@nikoborz5854]

Made a Video about the Rise and Fall of the Sassanid Empire and the Parthian Seven Clans in the Sassanid Empire

[@amirhosseinyousefi8841]

I wonder why didn't Alexios finish Sultanate of Rum's job after death of Kilij arselan

[@eitanmogilevsky5225]

Norwegian crusade is one of my favorite crusades. lets go!

[@user-lh4us1te6d]

We need a video about the rise of Muhammad Ali Pasha

[@iseeyou5061]

I didn't really see what so accomplished from Alexios in this chapter? He have great ambition yes but compare to previous episode with how he dealt Bohemomd, Alexios seems to overplayed his card here. The Alliance with Pisa didn't pay off and Venice is now angry, the Pope rebuff Alexios help(to be fair it meant Vassalage) and getting a loyal ally in Count of Tripoli would have been a good bargain for Alexios if he wish to reclaim the crusader state but he is dead and the man Alexios sent are not up to the task.

[@rsautos]

such a great channel

[@azzamfauzy3676]

Does becoming a patreon give us access to the membership exclusive videos??

[@KingsandGenerals]

Yep

[@YahiaTheGreat]

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was facing a far greater foe. The Fatimid Egyptians were hoping to settle the score. The Fatimids were not a weak opponent, nor did they lack the will or the means to crush the Latins. Between 1099 and 1118, they launched major invasions that included naval support.

[@skewed9942]

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[@MunsterBeavis]

First!!!! … crusade. Part 16..

[@KingsandGenerals]

One Moaaaar!

[@MunsterBeavis]

@@KingsandGenerals your 1st crusade series is my favorite! Please consider creating a long form alexander doc series on Belisarius & Justinian!

[@space__idklmao]

Pretty cool

[@plafskijenkins1357]

A cool, "what if series" lets say Baldwin ends up controlling all of the levant , Antioch and Edessa.

[@mohamedseif1479]

finally using the word jihad in it is true meaning .. can not wait to see the battle of al mansoura and the enslaving of the romans

[@istvansipos9940]

19:58 - sire, it is sickness again. Military history is FULL of this. The bane of every army. I think, you should spend some of your wealth to gather the smartest kids from every village, hire them great tutors, give them all they need, so that they can grow up and understand... stuff. Just like generations of swordsmiths figure out more and more about swords, you know. - Hmmm... Nah. Not glouawrious enough. Did you mention swords? - But... but sire, your army could be the healthiest army ever. - Onwords to gLoUaWReEe!

[@sarfcowst]

A serious shortage of learned tutors in most parts of the world in the early 12th century - and in the Near East there were probably only a couple. The only proper schools were for teaching the Quran, so no use really.

[@HistoryoftheUmmah]

The first real major Jihad was under Imad ad-din Zengi. The Atabeg of Mosul and conqueror of Edessa. Before then, some Muslim warriors managed to inflict some defeats on the crusaders but before then, any Muslim victory where mere sparks that where put out. Imad ad-din Zengi literally began the ball moving, followed by his son Nur ad-din, and then Saladin.

[@junedshaikh967]

Legend say this crusade and jihad still continue in pelestin

[@mhmadbedrddeen3414]

True, history always repeats itself

[@haroonyousyharoonyousf8541]

Nice an infotmated

[@RashidAli-fb3se]

The fatimid caliphate control of Egypt was the reason why they could lunch 14 invasions and lose and still able to invade since Egypt was rich and generated a lot of revenue so building armies from mercenaries or ghulams was not that hard

[@RashidAli-fb3se]

If it wasn't for alexious bureaucratic and administrative prowess as well as his taxation and financial reforms in addition to the eastern roman empires efficient taxation as well as the empires not overpreducing wheat and instead developing better transportation methods and roads and trade links and routes as well as developing excellent mining and minting and the technologies that made mining and drawing mines of water efficient as well as having large urban centers that exelent manufacturing thr byzatine would have never had the ability to have such a large revenue of gold coins not silver like many of western Europe did as well as centralization helped so basically eastern roman empire was very wealthy and just needed time to rebuild their army after defeat

[@RashidAli-fb3se]

As well as byzatine paying european king to go to war was similar to using cheap labour

[@JackBlack-py4en]

Lock those arrows!

[@wajida.nezami.203]

I liked title pic.

[@wajida.nezami.203]

what I won?

[@KingsandGenerals]

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[@Myavepea]

I am Indian Christian ❤✝️🛐

[@istvansipos9940]

worry not. It could be worse.

[@shatadalbasak1834]

Crusade against Jihad and Jihad against Crusade. Only Hinduism and Buddhism talk about peace. Proud to be born in Indian continent.

[@hellkr]

Praying, bathing, laying siege.... that's one, successful Nordic vacation 🤣

[@teachermikmichael27]

pity that such a good quality video makes big mistakes such as including the ATATURK RESERVOIR near Edessa. it was built in 1990.

[@izlanghuge6505]

And from 1102 Croatia was in personal union with Hungary (Pacta Conventa). By 1107 King Coloman controlled most of Dalmatia. So that part of the map is also wrong. 15:28 byzantine dreams... (Shaizar's emir's nephew Usama ibn Munqidh wrote a book "Kitab al-I'tibar" about these times.)

[@Music-xp5wg]

Why didn't Alexiois care about regaining the lands lost to the sultante of rum?

[@Zach77ist]

Topic proposal. Why did the communist countries do so well? Like North korea would've won if not for nato, north vietnam won over south. And seems like everywhere else communism had the upper hand until we intervened. So question Why were the communist forces doing better than the non comminist forces in other countries?

[@Frithonor]

Communists; fighting for an ideology they (rightly or wrongly) are fervent zealots for. Victory is all. Everyone else; fighting for money or influence or strategic resources. Cost/benefit analysis enters into the picture. TL;DR; the communists wanted to win and didn’t care about the cost. Their enemies did.

[@neunistivlija]

Which God won?

[@istvansipos9940]

they were not there. Only their fans.

[@mohammad.alkurdi.]

There is only 1 and he never loses