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Yeah...I guess your ancestors really showed their arses during the Crusades.
The Crusades?
You're speaking of the Christian response to the Islamic raids throughout the Mediterranean, which shut Europe off from the rest of the world, creating what has long been known as "THE DARK AGES" and despite coming HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATE... were responsible for freeing Europe, initiating the subsequent "Enlightenment"?
What's your problem with the Crusades, exactly?
You sound like George W. Bush explaining why he had to attack Iraq!
Course of the First Four Crusades
First 1095-1099 At the urging of Pope Urban II in 1095, the First Crusade succeeded in taking Jerusalem and was the most successful from the European point of view. When Jerusalem fell in 1099, crusaders massacred Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. Then the leaders divided up the land into territories, each governed by a European feudal lord.
Second 1147-1149 The Second Crusade started when Europeans lost control of Edessa, territory that they had previously controlled, to the Muslims. Led by King Louis VII of France and King Conrad III of Germany, the Europeans failed to regain any land and the crusade was a failure from a European point of view.
Third 1189-1192 The Third Crusade was a response to Jerusalem’s fall in 1187 to Salah al-Din (Saladin). Three great armies from Europe were led by Richard the Lion-hearted of England, Philip II of France, and the Holy Roman emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Europe’s greatest warrior. However, Frederick accidentally drowned, the other two kings quarreled, and the whole crusade failed from a European point of view.
Fourth 1201-1204 Instead of going to Jerusalem, the Fourth Crusade went to the Byzantine Empire’s capital, Constantinople, for various reasons. The European armies looted (robbed) the city and overthrew the Byzantine emperor. The main outcomes of the Fourth Crusade were to deepen the division between Greek and Latin Christianity and to hasten the Byzantine Empire’s decline.
Another LIBERAL CONFIRMS Trumps muslim statements!
