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It also depends on time period here. Byzantines by the time of the first crusades already lost Syria and Egypt.
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Jesus when I think Im done with this forum someone's opens interesting thread lol.
They were not into that war because of race friend, Europeans didn't payed much attention to race in those times even though they knew they're white ofcourse, so you got it totally wrong, they were not there because of Christianity neither, you got that right.
They were there because of gold and to make themselves rich in the name of some "Christian Reconquista" of Holy Land, because Holy Land was just another Byzantine province before Muslims conquered it.
In addition to this, have in mind that Crusaders robbed Constantinople 1204 AD, they sacked Constantinople stealing everythin they could find considering gold and silver.
Constantinople was brought back shortly after that by Byzantines, but it was never same again, in fact Ottomans would never (IMO) conquered that city 1453 if wasn't for Crusaders who took "the soul" of that city 1204 and it's strength.
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P.S. Somethin interesting, Croatian King Zvonimir wanted that Croatian Kingdom join Crusaders, but he was killed by our own Croatian ppl because of that, it was said as a myth that Zvonimir cursed Croats for that before his death, his own ppl lol.
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Doubt my ancestors had anything to do with shit throwing like crusades. Some Crusades I believe did have fully religious motives but they are less heard of than the main ones whuch had less to do with religion. Crusaders sacked Constantinople and fought pagans in the North I don't think it had much to do with race. Economy maybe or seeking more power and lands.
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mixed people also joined the crusades...
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Crusades are perfectly justified, it was about reconquering terrirotories that were Christian before the muslim invasions.
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