Assassins vs Templars: The Crusades
Echoes of History
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The Pressure of the Second Crusade
The second crusade is about shoring it up. They established what we call the crusader states in the first 10 years of the 12th century. And consolidate their hold on the region. But the Muslim Near East begins to react, begins to start pulling itself together. So you've got a kind of odd European colony now in the Middle East. It wouldn't be the last.
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