Why are the crusades so overrated? French invade and fight outnumbered

Can someone post that pasta about how to distinguish the franks from the french?

Anyway, "frank" during the time of the crusades referred to western yuros. Calling them french is incorrect even if most them came from france.

>>1659046
>mfw playing CK2 right now
Crusades especially to the Levant are fucking pain in the butt. Half your army die on the way and if anyone decides to fuck you in the ass while you are out crusading, you have no way to defend yourself. And then even if you win and get the Kingdom of Jerusalem created, Ayrabs will jihad you every 10 years and you get zero help from Europe.

>>1659056
>Anyway, "frank" during the time of the crusades referred to western yuros.
If you were a Saracen in the middle ages, sure. For anyone else, especially someone from the 21st century, no, that's not how it works.

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>>1659046
First for Saladin was a Kurd

>>1659056
>Anyway, "frank" during the time of the crusades referred to western yuros. Calling them french is incorrect even if most them came from france.

Most of them came from France and the muslim generalized it to all of them by calling them "franks" (aka the name French refered to themselves with in that era)

Past the 9th century (and the division of the Frankish Empire in 843), "Franks" basically means French
Germans (the former Eastern Franks) had already found another name (Deutsch) to distinguish themselves

>>1659127
sounds pretty realistic desu