A Reason To Crusade

>>2055725
Sounds like something a highschool teacher would say

Viking Age was completely over at 1095 when Clermont happened. You missed a golden opportunity to humiliate your "teacher".

>>2055725
Are you a Brit?
Is this what British education has come down to?

>>2055725
>the reason

sophomoric

>>2055733
In Brazil "history" highschool teachers are generally sociology/social "science"/anthropology graduates that can't find a job anywhere else, are extremely bitter about muh capitalist society, and "teach" history as well as geography, philosophy and pretty much anything else except science, to fill in the gaps. Their classes consist of denouncing capitalism and Christianity and urging the students to vote for and join their (leftist) political party.

So yes, in my country I would fully expect a highschool teacher to say something like that.

>>2055725
>Can anyone confirm or deny? How off their rockers are the teachers?

Read the actual discourse of the Pope to justify the Crusade, the Crusades were religious in nature, and nobles participated in the Crusades, thus it contradict your thesis.

http://www1.cbn.com/spirituallife/calling-for-the-first-crusade

>>2055725
This is some retarded levels of generalization desu

>>2055725
Most of the Vikings had converted to christianity by the 11th century. The crusades began a generation after the battle of Hastings, by that time the Danes were not a major power anymore and the main source of conflict was rebellious barons and rivalries between dukes the like.

At a stretch your teacher's idea might apply more to the Normans than the Vikings. The Normans managed to project force to Sicily and England and were an influential military power, they considered themselves servants of the pope in Italy for a while.