First Crusade

>>2225659
It went well, a complete success

>>2225659
>dying over barren desert cause "muh holy land": 11th century edition

europe is my holy land, not israel

>>2225694
>barren desert
so how is that burger Cletus/Tyrone?

>>2225703
Other than muh holy land what is worth dying for in Palestine?

>>2225729
if you aren't willing to die for your faith you probably never believed

>>2225729
Good farm land and olives. They also have oil for your 21st century man.

>>2225729
Nothing.

Everything.

>>2225744
Why aren't you dead then senpai?

>>2225751
dry oranges and loaf avokado*

>>2225780
t. Saladin

>>2225659
It happened because of Byzantine politics increasingly relying on mercenaries, then got turned into a meme by Western Europe.

>>2225659
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVFqpbIIwA

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>>2225659
تلحسوا طيزي. :)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PMjG3xF2ts

>>2225659
>byzantines
>people
Your picture is wrong OP

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Why hello there.

>>2225659

Crusades saved europe, expanded trade, and gave us the new world.

I'm very open to argue this if anyone disagrees.

I can also expand on my reasoning/opinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI5_idvxm18&list=PLKk8OVRiLGsetWY3IfX31bPxXhts6p_GX&index=3

Not bad, all things considered. Preserved the Byzantine Empire for a little longer.

>>2226212
>Dandolo
>First Crusade

>>2226229
I'm curious as to your opinions why they were good.

>>2225659
Switch the Jew and the Byzantine

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>muh hardore knights

>>2225780
kek

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>>2229511
Costuming was so good in that movie. To bad the rest of it was rot.

>>2229790
The music and camera work was pretty dope. Most of the acting, too.

>>2229817
I prefer my desert camera work in the form of a biopic about a masochistic homo... like you could jerk off to the camera work in that movie.
Best scene/shot/thing in KoH is when Baldwin IV shows up with the glinting cross and army.

>>2229374
t. Schlomo

>>2229790
The entire movie is amazing, only sheep don't like KOH. Arguably the best ensemble cast in the past 50 years.

>>2225744
*tips fedora*

>>2225744
So you're an atheist?

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>>2225850
This. The most reasonbale answer to OP's idiot question.

>>2226229
>Crusades saved europe

No they fucking didn't. Muslim expansion into Europe had already been curtailed at Tours in the 8th century. The First Crusade wasn't even a reaction to any real Muslim threat to Latin Europe: it was actually an over-reaction in thanks to Byzantine scheming that got out of hand.

All the Crusades accomplished was unifying the Muslims by giving them a common enemy, and if that wasn't enough, weakening (and then destroying) the only entity capable of holding back the various Muslims hordes: the Byzantine Empire.

>>2230988
>>2225850
What so many really don't get about this is that the Byzantines were out for themselves, so it wasn't a Christian vs Muslim thing for them but a Roman vs Barbarian one. This led to some hilarious and constant feats of irony.

>Gee, these northmen would make pretty good sellswords, let's start attracting as many as we can to fight for us in the Mediterranean
>Oh no, some of these northmen took Southern Italy and are now invading us
>Oh well, let's build up an army in Anatolia to-
>Oh no, they're revolting and usurping the throne
>Oh well, let's get some of these Turks to help fight in the civil wars and against the Normans
>Oh no, some of these Turks took Central Anatolia and are now invading us
>Oh well, let's get some Frankish knights to help fight them and-
>Oh no, some of them are taking land for themselves and even attacking us
>Oh well, let's get Venice our long-time outpost in the West to help defend our coasts and-
>OH NO

>>2230988
>Tours
You mean the Arab sieges of Constantinople. Tours was just a battle against a raiding party compared to these two sieges.