Looking to read up on the first crusade and the Islamic conquests which proceeded them. This year at university is my last and my Capstone paper is coming up, was originally going to write something about how the Japanese diplomats sent abroad helped rapidly advance Japan as a society but I don't know if I want to write about that anymore.
Do your own homework student boy
>>1455971
>Looking to read up on the first crusade
Crusades bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/7h8fASgv
>the Japanese diplomats sent abroad helped rapidly advance Japan as a society but I don't know if I want to write about that anymore
Hasekura Tsunenaga was sent in the early 17th Century.
>>1456007
Thanks famalam
But wouldn't the 17th century have been the beginning of the Tokugawa and their isolation/stagnation?
https://m.youtube.com/user/RealCrusadeHistory
Great channel, you'll find sources and ideas there.
>>1456048
>be the first Japanese diplomat sent out
>travel through Americas to Europe
>meet the pope and shit
>people and places are literally named after you in southern france and italy
>get back
>nobody fucking cares because isolationism
>you're largely forgotten for centuries
>>1455971
"The Crusades" (1965) by ZoƩ Oldenbourg (1916-2002) (English Translation by Anne Carter)