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05/13/10(Thu)18:22 No.937908>>937850
>I NEVER EVER EVER learned THAT in my history class.
Because
it's not true. There's more to the crusades than the goal in christian
propaganda at that time. Nobles wanting to fight, conquer land, and
while at it, pillage the fuck out of all the orthodox-christians, Jews,
and muslims, while they were on the way to the Holy Land.
For
example; the IVth crusade didn't end anywhere near Jerusalem, it ended
with the capture of Constantinople.
"No one was without a share
in the grief. In the alleys, in the streets, in the temples, complaints,
weeping, lamentations, grief, the groaning of men, the shrieks of
women, wounds, rape, captivity, the separation of those most closely
united. Nobles wandered about ignominiously, those of venerable age in
tears, the rich in poverty. Thus it was in the streets, on the corners,
in the temple, in the dens, for no place remained unassailed or defended
the suppliants. All places everywhere were filled full of all kinds of
crime. Oh, immortal God, how great the afflictions of the men, bow great
the distress!" |
