Chapter 2: Europe in the Middle Ages
The Industrial Revolutions
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The Crusaders and the Black Death
The Islamic world at the time was caught in a power struggle between competing Shiite and Sunni caliphates. The actions of the Crusaders, according to the Crusaders own accounts, were shockingly violent and just gross. All alone in the Holy Land, the Crusaders needed supplies from back home. And so a traitor merchant class, Burjund, in the port cities of the Italian peninsula set up networks with Muslims who sat at the center of global trade along Eurasian landmass.
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