Assassins vs Templars: The Crusades
Echoes of History
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The Crucifixion of the Christendom
If the first crusade had turned up in 1090, I think it would have just about got into modern Turkey and then being thrashed and sent home. So there's a sort of element of just time and luck here. The Muslim world found itself reasonably united and there was an opportunity. In 1099, at the end of the first crusade, after all those years on the road and they've reached their spiritual goal, yes, there is an appalling, a pouring of violence. And that population is incredibly polyglot. You've got Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, Jews, historians, Jacobites, Maronites, Armenians. They do need to live alongside and as overlords
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