Why did people go on Crusade?

[@longxiao9823]

"Jerusalem is easy to find, go to where the men speak Italian, then continue until they speak something else."

[@davidd.c.9344]

🤌🤌

[@vladtepes3201]

Will always be one of my top favorites I watch that movie at least twice a year since it came out.

[@gameking50P]

The difference between the extended and theatrical release is one of the craziest I've seen

[@KingWalkerl-s7l]

What movie?

[@vladtepes3201]

@Dragons74 Ridley scotts "Kingdom of heaven" but as stated above the directors cut is the version you have to see

[@PeterWarwick-u7x]

"So why did so many risk disease, death and destitution to join them?" Possibly because staying at home meant risking disease, death and destitution.

[@overlord5068]

*Christianity: Jesus Christ died for your sins on a cross and rose again after three days. You have committed evil deeds, as all humans have done. God is a just judge, and must punish you for these sins because He is perfect by His nature. But God loves you, does not want to punish you. This is why God took the form of a man, Jesus Christ, and died as a sacrifice for your sins on a cross. He was punished for your sins, so that you could be made righteous in God's sight. After three days, Jesus rose again, because it is impossible for Him to have been held won by death. The cross became symbol for Christianity* *Outside the traditional Catholic Church there is no salvation*

[@jgb7480]

​@@overlord5068none of us asked

[@billhanna2148]

They were just stupid religious nut jobs ???

[@JaimeAlvarez-r9u]

@@billhanna2148 hippie boomer

[@TheAurelianProject]

Except that this is incorrect, unless you’re talking about during the Black Death which happened AFTER the crusades

[@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900]

I’ve always wondered if someone went just because they were bored. No religious pull, no feudal obligation, they just wanted to break up the usual 9 to 5 and go on a crusade.

[@zombieoverlord5173]

A lot of disinherited younger sons did go for a similar reason. It's either civil war for land against your older brother or conquer out east

[@WoofyMcDoodle]

What do you mean no religious pull? The muslims destroyed the holiest place to Christians just a year prior the church of the holy sepulchre. Yes there were many reasons for fighting.

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

It probably beat farming on land all day and going to sleep A lot of your men prior to WW1 went due to boredom

[@WissHH-]

Indeed yes

[@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900]

@@MedjayofFaiyum that’s what I mean. You hear it a bunch for conflicts in the modern era, but I’m unaware of any ancient or medieval accounts of that. It may just be since those writing about themselves or others were either religious figures or part of the political classes.

[@revivalist355]

As a Muslim , this is my opinion and i may be wrong . For the commoner it may have been due to religious reasons. As for the rulership, it was nothing but politics The Seljuks were hammering the byzantines and conquering crucial cities in anatolia . Alexios realized he wouldn't face the Muslims on his own and that's why he sent a plea of help to the pope. The pope realized that this was a great opportunity to extend his sphere of influence in the east , however he had to come up with a reason to convince people to take up arms and go and fight thousands of miles away . If he presented the campaign as means to reconquer byzantine lands and hand them over to alexios , few would respond. He thereby decide to add a religious element to the campaign, mentioning Jerusalem (a city holy to the christians )telling people everything they wanted to hear e.g their sins will be expiated . So convincing was his speech that not only feudal lords but also untrained peasants set off .

[@falischika6221]

So then what happened to the Seljuks and why didn’t all the other Muslim empires not unite?

[@revivalist355]

@@falischika6221 shortly before the crusade was launched, the last great Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah died and he didnt have a heir of age so a succession crisis ensued. Many princes took advantage of this situation and carved out mini states for themselves. Not to mention these mini city states were warring. Damascus, Aleppo , Mosul were all at odds with the other . So the crusaders descended on the Muslim world at a time of severe disunity and division . That partly explains their initial success. It was only after the dust had fully settled that many Muslims had realized the scale of loss incurred against the crusaders. The caliph in Baghdad sent some relief armies to aid cities besieged by the crusaders but they were all uncoordinated and lacked integrity. This sad state of affairs would continue for some years . However in the early 1100s there would rise a formidable commander by the name of Mahmud Zengi who'll go on to conquer surrounding states through skilled diplomacy and sheer force . After gaining sufficient power within the region , he'd effectively ignite the sparks of jihad, reconquer Edessa ( one of the four crusader states ) and would come to be labelled champion of Islam. His legacy would be continued by his mentee , the more popular Salahudin Ayyubi, the conqueror of Jerusalem

[@EtherealSki]

Y’all spread your faith by force and we had to defend ourself

[@mattoucas869]

Yeah, some of the crusades pillaged Jewish towns and they sacked Constantinople, an extremely important Christian city.

[@orhanturkoglu1982]

​@@falischika6221selcuk become Ottoman they where Turkic tribes too

[@LaFonteCheVi]

The crusades are one of the many examples that demonstrate human behavior isn't based solely on geography or economics (like Marx claims). Materialism isn't the end all be all. Humans go to great lengths to fight for ideals, beliefs, morals, culture, etc. And it is also important to note that Islam was a real threat to Christianity. Not an imagined one.

[@fsdds1488]

Marx never claimed such, dialectic materialism merely stated that human society must have economical foundations that limits their choice, and with such constraints culture and civilization was built, and this civilization evolves with changes in socioeconomic condition, these are boundary conditions not defining character.

[@LaFonteCheVi]

@@fsdds1488 You are being pedantic and reductionist. Yes, Marx acknowledged that non-material and non-economic factors influence human society. But virtually none of his theories rely on them. His entire world view is based on materialist principles, oppressed vs oppressor dynamics, and economics. Everything. And presence an entire view of reality and it's function. Saying dialectic materialism "merely stated" human society has economic foundations is like saying Buddhism "merely stated" one should seek liberation from samsara. You are trying to hand-wave the fundamental principle away as if it is just some small thing. If one acknowledged non-material factors of human society and innate aspects of the natural world. Marxism entirely falls apart. Hence why Marx avoided them.

[@bear3616]

The Crusades very much just. It’s a shame we eventually lost.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Very well said.

[@Izack_Living_Life]

Salahuddin Ayubi

[@Matthew118]

At the end of the whole crusader era a truce was agreed between Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart to allow Christians Jews and Muslims freedom of the Holy Land. But after the First Crusade successfully (and brutally) conquered Jerusalem, and before the crusader defeat at The Battle Of Hattin, the Crusaders pulled off the seemingly impossible. They invaded extremely hostile foreign lands, lands they knew little of the lay of it, faced forces that massively outnumbered them and that had home advantage, BUT STILL sacked city after city and winning battle after battle while marching to Jerusalem. And after taking Jerusalem and it’s lands, they held that Kingdom for 88 YEARS!!! Absolutely incredible achievement

[@mohamedalahmadani5174]

You can’t simply acknowledge the fact that the First Crusade was brutal and went against basically everything in the ten commandments and also say that it’s an incredible achievement for Christians and Christendom.

[@MaxMustermann-ux5xi]

@@mohamedalahmadani5174you sure can. That doesn‘t mean it wasn‘t impressive. Also violence goes both ways. Neither christians nor muslims were friendly to each other. I know there are some examples, but most of the time brutal war on both sides. And they actually achieved what seljuks never achieved, conquering some of the most important cities in the middle east and hold them for a decent time. (They never came past Vienna, which is called ‘the gate to Europe‘)

[@moggtheboss3087]

@@mohamedalahmadani5174you know what’s worse? A religion that permits crusade.

[@Matthew118]

@@mohamedalahmadani5174 yes I can

[@toocharged]

The first crusade the Christians slaughtered everyone women and children whilst saladin when he took over gave everyone safe passage and allowed everyone to live together before Richard came through Richard came couldn't defeat saladin and signed a treaty in which saladin already agreed before Richard arrived

[@patstrzeszewski3240]

You should do a video about the northern crusades which happened in the baltic regions

[@hakage8517]

No one ever talks about those crusades, I always wonder about them

[@tsp141181]

Absolutely!!! 👌

[@bajscast]

​@@hakage8517 No one talks about them because it can't be a political battleground for modern religions

[@LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown]

Or what Charlemagne did to the pagan Saxons, his own blood brothers. Christianity was a foreign religion forced upon Europeans by elitists. Christianity was brought to Europe by the same people that gave us the equally destructive and anti-European Marxism/Communism.

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[@Zawar-xz5oi]

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[@benusmaximus3601]

A huge factor in the motivation of the First Crusade was the system of primogeniture - there were countless second and third sons of French nobles who, by law, were owed nothing through the inheritance of their father’s estates - they had to carve their own lands and destiny…

[@DieNibelungenliad]

I imagine that was the reason for alot of wars back in the day

[@Commendatori]

@@benusmaximus3601 and you… at nothing more than a 2nd son of driftmark

[@SetuwoKecik]

About to mention this. One day late 😢

[@bajscast]

Yep, lots of second sons become mercenaries. Ultimately power will be a primary motivator - the idea that some people have that the wars were waged primarily for religious vengeance is laughably naive

[@scatalin09]

Not a word of the 500 years of Muslim aggression that swiped over Christian lands of Byzantium in (North Africa, the Middle East or Anatolia), Armenia or the Visigoths is Spain and even the invasion in Frankish or Italian territory. No, the Crusaders just woke up one day and decided to go take some lands in the middle of nowhere.

[@catotheyounger2689]

Then the Latin crusaders came to return those territories to the Byzantines... oh wait, that didn't happen. The refusal of the crusaders to return Antioch damaged Byzantine relations with the West. Then on the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart seized Cyprus. And how can we forget the Fourth Crusade? Arabs invaded Europe, but that doesn't vindicate the crusaders. Only one of the nine crusades succeeded in reclaiming the Holy Land. A huge waste of men and resources.

[@gazthejaz8910]

What about the Norman and Frankish invasion of the Roman Empire? They destroyed it

[@rns7426]

My man, spitting truths! The woke zombies are all about self destruction and corrupting history.

[@richarda786]

Yeah... Never a word about it! We were supposed to wait for Islam to swipe through Europe without doing sh*t 😅

[@farhatjabeen2904]

Westernised christanity is distorted, to commit atrocities around the globe, the people of those areas chose their religion 🙄

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your videos on the first crusade are EPIC

[@joshlesure3196]

Love this channel!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Amazing series guys! Keep up the good work 😊😊😊😊

[@gunzsolo8384]

Love the tune. What is it?

[@konektxr]

I'd also like to know

[@theodorosgkountoulidis2385]

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[@حَنِيفٌمُحَمَّديّ-غ9ل]

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[@f0rgiv3n..]

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[@schoolofgrowthhacking]

I love this guy's voice, he could talk about any subject and keep my attention

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love this channel ❤

[@ovidiubeleut3254]

Great channel. Off topic, does anyone know the soundtrack name?

[@kimbirch1202]

Don't forget that these were also Holy Lands to Moslems also. Jerusalem is their second most Holy site, after Mecca.

[@wolf9970]

I think it was mecca, medina, then jerusalem, after that damascus

[@kimbirch1202]

@wolf9970 Moslems definitely regard Jerusalem as their second most Holy site. This is why they fought against Christians during the Crusades in the Middle Ages. The Dome of the Rock mosque is in Jerusalem, with its golden dome.

[@wolf9970]

@@kimbirch1202 I dont think so, the prophets grave and his highest companions are in medina. But of course that doesnt mean that the things you said are not important

[@kimbirch1202]

@wolf9970 Jerusalem is where Mohammed is supposed to have ascended into Heaven, so this is why its Islam's second most Holy site, after Mecca.

[@kimbirch1202]

@@wolf9970 You are wrong . Ask Moslems, as they should know.

[@israel9794]

What's the name of the soundtrack playing in the background

[@danielcarlos315]

What is the name of this song, is it really good?

[@theodorosgkountoulidis2385]

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[@cakes3733]

@@theodorosgkountoulidis2385links don’t work in KZbin

[@patrickkrohl3612]

The Artwork shown in this clip is great. Very realistic depictions of the respective time periods.

[@RafaelSantos-pi8py]

Why do people joined the crusade? To follow our Emperor in his glorious quest to reunite the human worlds and battle zenos and the forces of Chaos. Oh, wait, you meant the other ones?

[@raygiovano1984]

My brother in the Imperium, that is the Great Crusade

[@Jsjfjvinwnwl]

My brother in emperor, that crusade isn't about 2 desert religions fighting another. It's about fighting for the glorious atheist emperor

[@steadfastway1897]

beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, is an old English idiom. The fact that jews left Europe &came to live in muslim countries throught history, means, that their forefathers admit that muslims give them& everybody a chance. The fact that crusader peasants stayed back in lebanon etc, is a testament that muslims forgave them and continued to forgive the crusaders every generation past 900yrs. The noble headed back when muslims forgave them. They got the oppertunity to learn at the worlds first universities& be treated at the worlds first hospitals that only muslims had then. A chance for freedom to live and trade freely- get affluent. Your people flourished living amongest muslims, but we don't expect gratitude from you, God will reward the righteous and generous. Forget what you were taught by those who filled your heart with power greed and killing/ hate, come to islam, the religion that named 3 capitals with Darussalam = meaning home of peace& another with (The place Allah made tranquel& safe). when no one else could name even one village with such peace and happiness that only muslim travellers with Quran in their hearts can, this evidence ought to challenge the bias in media& miseducation that hurt you from the inside We pray for you as we pray for ourselves daily: Guide us to the straight path (Quran 1:6)

[@insectslayer1374]

@@steadfastway1897 No. It was not out of kindness. Muslims wanted to extract that jizya from Christian and Jewish men. Like a mafia. you think anyone would be fooled by that narrative nowadays(other than liberals)?

[@hospitallercross1155]

@@steadfastway1897 full of BS u writes here

[@marksteve9247]

"I just want a good fight and conquest!" That's how I saw crusades tbh.

[@VikingerOnYT]

Bring them back.

[@Huub-h1t]

Who?

[@babyrage6666]

If sword era then Muslim solo

[@ashkanfattahi1945]

@@babyrage6666 history aint an anime powerscaling battle. The muslims got their backs handed to them in the battle of tours

[@babyrage6666]

@ashkanfattahi1945 in history christian only win in gun era, but if sword vs sword muslim solo even outnumber.

[@VikingerOnYT]

@@babyrage6666 Christians have, luckily, won many a time. And they will again.

[@titanbaron4516]

Does anyone know the music that plays in this?

[@affan3095]

Irony is that crusaders looted and pillaged Constantinople and eastern Roman Empire 😂 which eventually make that empire weak and unstable

[@RoyalRegimentofScotland]

It's not really ironic. They sacked Constantinople because the Romans refused to pay back debts to specific crusaders. They didn't exactly just do it on a whim

[@sanavkids4790]

​@@RoyalRegimentofScotlandbro je he is joking😂

[@umptischmutz]

The 4th Crusade army was excommunicated by the Pope prior to the sack because Venice maneuvered the leaders of the crusade to sack Zara in Dalmatia (Yugoslavia) as payment for the Venirian fleet.

[@G__--]

Excomunicated venetian mercenaries who were seeking personal wealth* No irony here, they also attacked catholic cities at Hungary ( Zara, for ex ) and given the fact that they didn't followed papal orders, they weren't crusaders, just venetians with crosses on their armor.

[@antiepix9555]

@@RoyalRegimentofScotland Yeah, because of one little GOOBER called Alexios IV promising the Crusaders so much money just so he can rule💀 (And because of Alexios III the Even Worse fleeing to Thrace with the ENTIRE IMPERIAL TREASURY)

[@Sammeran09]

Great video

[@Kartupels]

Wasn’t the primary reason a reaction to defend attack from the ottomam?

[@gdrobloxianemperor1737]

No the Ottomans came later

[@RoyalRegimentofScotland]

No the seljuks

[@Ismail-fv6ki]

After the disastrous defeat of the Roman empire against the Seljuk turks at manzikert the christian world was in crisis and in need of a common enemy Wich was the Muslims (infidels) and against the heretics (Orthodox) after.

[@Leopard_Star5667]

Nah they wanted to take the holy land. Ofc, don’t justify it

[@djohnson9857]

Not the Ottomans, but Islam. Muslims had taken all the Christian Middle Eastern countries, into Turkey and North Africa, held much of Spain for 800 years and constantly raided and attacked other European countries, taking millions of Europeans into slavery. The multiple crusades were Christians going to the aid of Christians who were being butchered and enslaved in their homeland.

[@seanthermes3707]

I remember hearing that one of the main reasons the then Pope called for Crusade was to try and end/dampen the infighting between all the small kingdoms in Europe, particularly France, as nothing unites a people like an external enemy.

[@lelandkinsella7380]

Christianity already had strong roots in the Middle East, North Africa and even Ethiopia BEFORE the spread of Islam. Muslim conquest had taken these places and started pushing into Europe......so Christians wanted to at least take back the Holy Land.

[@TheGrenadier97]

Truly wonderful how so many conducted intercontinental campaigns when professional military services and nation-states were hardly existing.

[@Il_Principessa]

Mercenaries: so we're not mentioned?

[@GregorySmith-xq8yt]

💲💲💲💲

[@overlord5068]

​@@GregorySmith-xq8yt No

[@overlord5068]

Go away, trolls

[@overlord5068]

Move

[@perfectsplit5515]

The Crusades were most likely the inspiration for the fictional Army of Light in Season 3 of the 90’s sci-fi show Babylon 5. All the previously feuding factions of the League of Non Aligned Worlds, the Minbari, the Vorlons, Babylon 5, and what was left of the Narn Regime had to unite to fight the common enemy. In the Crusades, all the feuding factions of Christianity had to unite to fight the common enemy.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I think we need them back

[@blutherhood3893]

We also need Salahuddin Al Ayyubiy, Alp Arslan and Yusuf Ibn Tashfin back

[@fsdds1488]

I think we need Cyrus the Great back to teach childish people like you how adult behaves.

[@IPendragonI]

​@@fsdds1488If we wanted to know how Children behave all you have to do is look at Islam in the Middle East. How does it feel to get destroyed by Israel over and over again?

[@IPendragonI]

​@@blutherhood3893Saladin lost every battle against Richard the Lionheart. Bring it on.

[@blutherhood3893]

@@IPendragonI How it ended? Kicked Crusaders out of the holy land.

[@TheD-Ham]

We need this guys voice for Medevil 3 when we get that in 20 years

[@DerDenkende]

The crusades were a necessary answer to the brutal Islamic conquest. If they hadn’t stepped in, Europe and therefore North America were Islamic by now. Rather thank them for doing this work for us

[@Arkus123]

Lol the islamic conquests were not any more brutal than the Christian ones 😂😂😂 you calling them violent is like a diabetic pig calling someone fat😂😂

[@Arkus123]

If it weren't for the noble French secular atheists Europe would still be a Christian feudal shit hole 😂😂😂 ruled by inhumane Christian laws.

[@Arkus123]

The only reason Europe is prosperous is because Christians got they're asses kicked by the Secularists who liberated Europeans from Christianity.

[@DerDenkende]

@@Arkus123 Christians didn’t raped and killed kids and women. They just fought against men.

[@WinterXR7]

@@Arkus123Christianity spread peacefully, they used missionaries and slowly converted the Middle East and Europe unlike Islam which needed war to expand.

[@bryceruppe9260]

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15.

[@bryceruppe9260]

"15.1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 15.2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 15.3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 15.4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 15.5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 15.6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep." 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-6 "1.6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 1.7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 1.8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." GALATIANS 1:6-8

[@pilarrusso9883]

Jesus gave his life for uss to save our sauls❤❤❤❤

[@abdulkareemaliyu8991]

Yeah right? Better call Saul

[@hhaze2020]

Lmao no,he was a Prophet of God,he didn't die at the cross but he will return before the day of judgement as a Muslim and ummati of Muhammad PBUH,he will live and die as a Muslim and be buried alongside the Prophet in Medina

[@Polish_Orthodox_Knight]

​@hhaze2020No. He is God revealed in flesh

[@hhaze2020]

@@Polish_Orthodox_Knight "God in flesh" do you hear yourself? a supreme being who created the universe died? how does that work?

[@Polish_Orthodox_Knight]

@hhaze2020 His body died. He did not. Don't you see, btw, that He rose along with body on the third day? Btw, what type of god allah is, if he: 1. Calls to kills enemies 2. Has his roots in paganic tribe of Quarish people (Muhammas belonged to that tribe), Al-lah was known as moon god, that is why Muslims often use crescents. 3. All his words are mix of paganic Arab, Roman, Macedonian, Byzantine and Persian poems with some additions from Bible to make it Abrahamic

[@bustanuttington]

It was either to secure a place in heaven (this is why Martin Luther posted his thesis on a Germanic Church frustrated with buying or proving oneself for heaven) or to prove themselves to their ancestors

[@overlord5068]

Martin luther was not a Christian

[@bustanuttington]

@@overlord5068 what that mouth do 👄 😏

[@danix4883]

It was actually mostly to get titles and riches since they (the knights that went to fight) were passed over from inheritance as they were 2nd, 3rd, etc child and not the first born

[@overlord5068]

@@danix4883 No

[@overlord5068]

@@danix4883 It's not because money is your god and you are willing to do anything for it that it applies the same for devout Catholics

[@RogerK9883]

They also had a bunch of guys, trained in the most brutal warfare, walking around their streets. They wanted them out of town.

[@aa6dcc]

To defend their fellow Christians from the invading muslim force in the holy land

[@nicholasd5536]

An invading force? The Holy Land had been Muslim territory for centuries

[@xp7575]

​@@nicholasd5536 Muslim invasion colonization and occupation is how they got there

[@wackypeace1135]

Took them 400 hundred years to react 😂.

[@Harmuthkuthanapalithi]

Muslims have taken over europe I mean look at uk france run over

[@bujinfujin8603]

Imagine going on 9 crusaders and winning barely winning 2 of them

[@adrianmetzler2523]

It all really boiled down to trading routs and why dominated them at the time.

[@BachirKahki]

Battle of GAZA 1244 : A major battle took place in Jumada al-Awwal 642 or 1244 north of Gaza in which the Muslims, led by King As-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub and with him an army of the Khwarezmians, were able to annihilate a large Crusader army, who had with them some traitorous Ayyubid princes, along with a few hundred of their men. Muslims killed more than 30,000 Crusaders including many princes and priests and took great spoils. Before that, the Muslims , thanks to the Khwarezmian warriors, conquered and liberated Jerusalem on Safar 8, 642 AH...they slaughtered all the crusader men and enslaved the women and children. the Khwarazmians also dug up all the graves of the Crusaders, took out their bones, and burned them (Muslim chronicales)

[@54356776]

That's disgusting, to treat others with such evil and hatred. It's also false to claim "liberation" when it was the Muslim armies who first conquered Jerusalem. To be liberated they would have to be free from Islamic rule. I'm not hating on Islam by the way, this is just being truthful.

[@WinterXR7]

Not liberation just reconquest.

[@texenna]

womp womp got cooked ngl

[@sleepycharlie673]

Average muslim behavior

[@hendrifai4223]

Arabs not muslims

[@robertwaid3579]

IN your very brief explanation. I was initially impressed that it was so short and basically correct. To what I had ever known about the Crusades previously. Then I was reading the follow up comments. Where by I then was ahh perplexed by how screwy most people's views or past teaching's are about them? FGI: I myself had never really researched or studied them previously. Well I'm now thinking 🤔🤔 that at the time of each of those many Crusades. That were being organized. IT was very much similar too now? And it came down too how one felt about those causes then being confronted? Also it was really basically, about who was indulging the people too support it or Not support it. IN mere fact the people were being offered choice's of what could be construed as a Free Choice of their own acceptance. Since in many cases the ruling power's couldn't install conscription's, draft's, or other forced means of gathering Army's too go & fight for them? Each person could then? Decide whether or not to go & get involved or stay where they were. This apparently is where Freedom of Choice was created or became the norm.

[@mortimersnerd8044]

The Pope absolved crusaders of all sin upon reaching the Holy Land.

[@Arkus123]

So he can just do that to whoever??? Who does he think he is, god???

[@iakovos56]

​@@Arkus123 The Pope today even allowed gay marriage. That's catholicism

[@szymeq.haizaki4898]

​@@Arkus123Pope represents Jesus Christ on Earth. Pope is a second person after God, to rule the Christians.

[@Arkus123]

@@szymeq.haizaki4898 where in the bible does it say this???

[@Arkus123]

@@szymeq.haizaki4898 I don't think that's in the bible

[@アリアン-n8i]

Song name?

[@ephrimkuzmitski709]

Europe was being conquered by Muslim extremists at the time, and they had conquered all the way to Central Spain. The crusades gathered diverse people from sects that normally hated each other and unified them to save Europe and the Holy Land. Not all the Crusades were good by any means, but they were not a stain on Human history.

[@tylerrobbins8311]

😂 muslim extremist? You mean the jihad? Literally not extreemist when it's a core tenet to conquer non muslims.

[@ephrimkuzmitski709]

@@tylerrobbins8311Yeah, I think I get what you're saying. I guess it's not really extremism when it's what the Muslim faith literally means.

[@alanahmed7144]

@@ephrimkuzmitski709Please explain to me why Muslims and christians worked together against muslims and christians in spain, like the emir of toledo working with king alfonso of leon against emir of cordoba, or king of castille and leon working with muslims against kingdom of aragon. then please explain why, when the original agreement was to return christian lands to byzantine empire, the franks broke their oath, betraying their so called diverse allies, also explain to me why crusaders were fighting with eachother, disagreements about who should own what city etc. then explain to me, if they wanted to liberate their rightfull territory for christians, why did they massacre eastern christians and force catholism on the holy land, when it was never catholic? you see, your rethoric is false, christians had no problems with muslims in spain, often allying them and working with them against other christians. and as i have proven, the crusades were far from holy, being full of crimes of war not only against muslims, but also christians

[@classit8248]

“Muslim extremist” 🤣

[@CSILon96]

What about the sack of Jerusalem in 1099 whereby the "extremists" crusaders massacred the entire population?

[@Hektor0]

Music name pls

[@AEdHR]

Oh man @EpichistoryTv, it's really disappointing that you didn't state the main reason for the Crusades which was mostly a defensive effort against the Ottoman Empire expansion towards Christian lands.

[@SentencesFromMyThoughts]

Wasn't it the Ottoman came later and as far as I know the crusade didn't exist when the Ottoman finally formed

[@vlr4631]

Ottoman empire didn't exist yet. The religious stuff was mainly a pretext to a) aid the Byzantine empire in a power struggle in Asia minor and b) to cement the authority of the pope

[@AEdHR]

@@SentencesFromMyThoughts The Seljuk Empire did, which greatly established the groundwork for the Ottoman Empire. As they were essentially the same power since the only difference was the leading House at the time, first with the House of Seljuq, then the Ayyubid Dinasty, and then the House of Osman.

[@SentencesFromMyThoughts]

@@AEdHR ohh ok

[@tekinet7958]

Source?

[@ScottByther]

Hate is a powerful motivator

[@parkla4098]

There is only one reason. DEUS VULT!

[@subutaykhan9387]

Don't forget cannibalism and kinslaying😂

[@SentencesFromMyThoughts]

God wills it

[@SentencesFromMyThoughts]

​@@subutaykhan9387 ohh g-... God will s it

[@Polish_Orthodox_Knight]

Deus Vult✝️☦️

[@ArtukTalasi]

Sack Constantinople!

[@lollygan8193]

When people speak of Crusades of the middle ages they always seem to leave out the Northern Crusades. For Baltic people (and possibly Finnish I don't know about the Finns that much) it was one of the biggest historical events and yet I rarely see anything about them! It's a shame really.

[@JaimeAlvarez-r9u]

Yep those were a success along with the reconquista

[@awediomusic2137]

The Mohammedans were oppressing Christians in the Holy Land following their many conquests. The crusades were fought to liberate the lands, not merely for glory and honour. Any glory and honour in the fighting was based on the advancement of this goal, it wasn’t the end in itself.

[@ceasar7830]

Ya always the victims let me more how all of europe was somehow victim of Muslim And why after 600 years after the conquest ?

[@frnasfrnas8547]

Impressive how you're wrong at everything. Except liberate part. first thing we are Muslims. we follow Allah and mohammed PBUH is his messenger. second thing Christians, Jews and Muslims all existed in Jerusalem under the islamic Rule. which never happend before. and when The crusaders came they killed all. Children, women, Elders. no exception. they Slaughtered Muslims, Jews, and even Christians who aren't on Thier same sect. It became a literal blood path as historians said. and with time crusades no longer were holy wars for The belief but to fill their coffers with coins. and that's a history Listen for You.

[@hanyehap476]

No they weren't oppressed

[@RRRRRRRRRRR956]

They are conquered indeed, but not oppressed

[@zahk661]

@@hanyehap476Being raped, mutilated, killed, forcibly converted or sold into slavery wasn’t oppression? I bet your family tree doesn’t fork.

[@blazecarter]

Yeah, all for multitudes of reasons but never about faith. Or a multitude of reasons under the mask of faith. A good summary about crusaders intruding into the holy land

[@adrianobattaglia4060]

It's by grace through faith in Christ alone. Not by penance or sacraments or any good deeds. Nothing but faith alone in Christ alone by the grace of God alone.

[@overlord5068]

Spoken like a true heretic and non-Christian

[@overlord5068]

In other words: you are not a Christian

[@Khattab511]

Why did they sack Constantinople then ?

[@yes-pw1wv]

A lot of nobles are fueled by the thought of getting Lands

[@JaimeAlvarez-r9u]

Wrong. "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." James 2:26

[@masmustacheo891]

I'm not sure if this was true or not; but I heard that during the Crusades, the Pope would pardon and forgive criminals if they joined.

[@NorthumbrianNationalist]

They risked it to save their Brothers and Sisters in Christ from persecution and other disgusting things done by muslims to Christians

[@justinlabrosse8506]

I love how Epic History became a very popular channel, but it's a bit annoying always seeing shorts of past videos made years ago.

[@gab1172]

and because of the Muslim invasion in Spain

[@Narrator_of_Tarikh07]

I'll never understand why they went to the Middle East instead of where the Muslims were actually invading (Iberian peninsula).

[@Ghostrex101]

​@@Narrator_of_Tarikh07 Jesus

[@Ranchor489]

@@Narrator_of_Tarikh07 Because when the Seljuk Empire took over, it threatened Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land despite being under Muslim rule for centuries. That and also threatening the Byzantine Empire at its doorstep with Emperor Alexios I requesting for military aid against the Seljuks encroaching towards his land. It had almost nothing to do with what was going on in the Iberian Peninsula, only ever relating to one another as Christians trying to take back the lands that were once theirs since the Muslim expansions centuries ago.

[@tijin999]

Its was about the silk road the ottomans stopped trade to Europe thats why Portugal went round peak of Africa few hundred years later looking for alternative routes to India for spices then columbus went west few hundred years after that

[@aetius7139]

​@@Narrator_of_Tarikh07There already are christians kingdoms in spain who keep moors at bay. The turks in anatolia was already at the gates of constantinople. Its to "help" their byzantines fellow christians. Emperor alexios was not very pleased when crusaders is at their door. All he wanted is just a few thousand knights, not some 90,000 ragtag army of peasant soldier, pilgrims and poor landless knights.

[@Kurtlane]

One more major reason is absence of kmowledge and understanding. People had no idea what they were getting themselves into.

[@DerKrault]

This line of thinking is dangerous, people back then weren't "stupid and misinformed" they knew why they were doing the crusades.

[@SuperMatters]

Main reason was to protect christendom. In the year 3150. Why did ppl go on crusades in the 2030s? 😅

[@blutherhood3893]

Izrael would start falling in the 2030s

[@Ic3x_Plays]

Don't act like Muslims werent killing Christians years prior

[@floof6896]

crusades to protect europe from the muslim immigrants? sounds fun

[@ibairementeria]

No way in the first scene there wasn’t any arrow coming from the Iberian peninsula 🤣

[@Drwnifgop-i6q]

Remember everyone, the crusades ended about 800 years ago. Don’t get too butt hurt

[@Spartan_Disiplin]

The Turks destroyed the frankish armies, captured all their castles, and sold women and children of europeans in slave markets. Thats how crusades ended, dean davis

[@blazer9547]

​@@Spartan_Disiplin because europe was weaker after the great plague

[@Drwnifgop-i6q]

@@Spartan_Disiplin right, that happened about 800 years ago… whats your point?

[@RoyalRegimentofScotland]

Depends some people still consider 1915 to be the last crusade

[@MohammedSirwankurd]

By name, yes, in reality? No not at all

[@michaelharrison3602]

It's interesting to know that the word "infidel" originally meant someone who wasn't a Christian nowadays we treat it as a word describing someone who isn't a Muslim. There are many Things that we are told are Islamic beliefs such as the belief that anyone who dies during a crusade or jihad. But the original idea came from pope Urban 11 who claimed that anyone dying on a crusade would go straight to heaven instead of spending time in purgatory which people in those days believed 😅

[@munchycrusader1143]

And Many Died To Defend The Cross

[@GoofyGoober7582]

Defend? They themselves undertook the offensive brother.

[@carthagonova4132]

@@GoofyGoober7582 It took many more centuries to stop the Muslim aggression. The victory in Spain then the victory over the Mongols, and only recently the victory over Turkey finally brought peace to Europe at least in terms of external aggression.

[@Khattab511]

@@carthagonova4132 “brought peace to Europe” Napoleonic wars cough cough ww2 cough

[@sahil-df4jr]

@@carthagonova4132forgot to mention the europeans cooking themselves in furnances 😂😂😂

[@Mr-eightfivefour]

These crusades still happen in some form in the modern day holy land.

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

In The Name Of God -is the one main reason why people went on Crusade

[@mrperfect1522]

And in the name of Allah - is the one main reason why people went for jihad

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

@mrperfect1522 Well, it was not just that now, would it? We had other reason to go on Crusade.

[@mrperfect1522]

@@alfrancisbuada2591 reason to go on crusade?

[@mrperfect1522]

@@elvé4û9 I didn't compare them bruh

[@sohanmufti6000]

they were not risking destitution. They were fleeing destitution. That was a big reason.

[@EuropeanResistanceFighter-z1k]

God bless the crusaders of Middle Ages.

[@magicpyroninja]

Part of the reason is because of the growing borders of the Muslim empire that was slowly moving further and further into Europe And us Christians like most people don't like being enslaved for our faith

[@ArtukTalasi]

We don't enslave you for your faith (unless you fall as a captive in war while fighting as a soldier)

[@cringlator]

The coolest way to look at the crusades was the Roman empire temporarily reforming to fight an externality. Plenty of way less cool ways to look at it too…

[@RadRoachh]

Islam came with a sword, now it dies a slow cruel death by the internet with no weapon.

[@Adolf-s7f]

Lol no. Islam never came with a sword. And it's not dying. It's the fastest growing religion in the world.

[@MMAspects]

We will win by God's will and grace, oorah!✝️☦️

[@insectslayer1374]

That map is missing some color. Because it seems like 400 years of youknowwhat didn't exist prior to the crusades. Like North Africa, the Levant, Byzantium, Iberia, and much of southern Europe were having a great time after youknowwhat happened around 600 years on the year of our Lord and it's still ongoing today 1,400 years later to the point where the Christian population suddenly drops from over a million down to the thousands in a short period of time.

[@sagittarius5466]

I would’ve 100% joined the crusades if I lived in that time period

[@10MNTMEDIC]

Sounds like shipping off to the modern military to me except for a higher purpose.

[@slayerstenis]

They were out of chewing gum

[@stephenkoenig1532]

Weren’t there mostly criminals and mercenaries?

[@Dhdh-cf3mb]

No he very first crusade was peasants mostly farmers led by the Peter the hermit and was named the peoples crusade then the real crusade began using knights from Germany and France Lords would use their armies in the crusade most of the time

[@sleepless9994]

Cause god wills it

[@Adam-hs9ft]

Personal gain and protection of their faith and way of life, simple

[@bigsarge2085]

Deus Vult.

[@nirobahmed3719]

No phone no computer just people enjoying their lives

[@KamiTenchi]

Make a short video about Jesus.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

Forgiveness for their sins was one thing because they could go on crusade and the church would forgive them for everything. Everything they had done in the past and everything they would do in the future.

[@giorgiociaravolol1998]

Because it is based

[@Leopard_Star5667]

They lost most of the crusades.

[@aa6dcc]

@@Leopard_Star5667 who’s winning in 2024

[@aa6dcc]

@@Leopard_Star5667 you tried to take the holy land which wasn’t yours

[@zombieoverlord5173]

​@@aa6dccMostly secular governments. We don't live in the circles of the 1100s lmao

[@scarletkingcn4447]

There is not a single christian country except Vatican​@@aa6dcc

[@rostdreadnorramus4936]

Sounds more interesting than a desk job nowadays.

[@Kingsalim2001]

🤺🤺🤺

[@BachirKahki]

After the Crusaders were expelled and annihilated, the Crusaders tried to return, but ALL their campaigns were destroyed. For example, in Lebanon, in Safar 769 AH 1367 AD, the Muslims in Tripoli crushed a Crusader campaign and destroyed 30 ships out of 130 and killed more than 1,000 Crusaders. The same thing in 1401 and 1403 AD. In Sha'ban 785 AH 1383 AD, the Muslims in Beirut crushed a Crusader campaign and killed more than 500 Crusaders.

[@aa6dcc]

@@BachirKahki and in 2024, Israel successfully repelled the Shaytan’s army and protected the holy land from pdffiles

[@aa6dcc]

@@BachirKahki and then later on Europe colonised the whole Middle East lmao

[@zombieoverlord5173]

​@@aa6dccWhat on Earth are you talking about

[@scarletkingcn4447]

​@@aa6dcc Lmao By not pure power But being traitor

[@funtecstudiovideos4102]

​@@aa6dcc*most of middle East

[@Bayernvern]

Many of them went because of gaining reaches. Let's do not forget many crusaders they even attacked rich catholic cities like the ones of the today's Croatian coast!!! Not to mention the eastern orthodox cities of today's Greece and Turkey!

[@overlord5068]

No, they were not like you Everything you said is false

[@raijinenel3116]

Time to push the Muslim hoards back again

[@scarletkingcn4447]

You lost 6 out of 9 ninja

[@cakes3733]

@@scarletkingcn4447you just called him a ninja? Is that an insult?

[@aa6dcc]

@@scarletkingcn4447 and now you’ve permanently lost lmao. How did the reconquista go mouthbreather?

[@Hunter-e7e]

​@@aa6dcc what does mouth breather even mean? We didn't permanently lose lmao tides will turn again

[@aa6dcc]

​@@Hunter-e7e pfp says it all. Also "tides will turn" is not an argument it's just a vague thing I can also say

[@ottotwagiramungu983]

For God, Gold and Glory 🙏 🥇 🏆

[@notoriousbigmoai1125]

Christians: Yay, they have come to save us from Muslims! Crusaders: loot and destroy many Christian kingdoms, including Constantinople. Christians: 😐

[@G__--]

Excomunicated knights attack schismatics, and after that both got conquered by infidels. Meh, ironic.

[@Ash-gr3kg]

it was either serfdom or doing something cool like crusade

[@jamesrobertson3124]

The main reason....... to acquire wealth.

[@funtecstudiovideos4102]

Yeah, by marching through all of Europe while leaving your actuall source of income without protector and having to pay for months of travel 😂

[@luiscrakson]

They lost all you fool

[@tin2697]

When Marengo? I cant wait.

[@worndown8280]

Why? Because God willed it. And so did Kings.

[@zombieoverlord5173]

God allowed Crusaders to kill, rape and steal from mostly Christian subjects. Hilarious

[@Khattab511]

God willed sacking Constantinople I guess

[@c.galindo9639]

Going to wars back then was more like a job and men do thoroughly enjoy war :D

[@zhang_han]

These are all proximal reasons, not the distal (root) causes. The root cause would be something like a prolonged time of peace which bolstered male population, or low economic growth relative to population growth, which funnels additional population to trying to take wealth by force rather than produce it by labor.

[@watcher5729]

It feels like a re occurence comming. Slightly different labeled cause.