Explanation: The Crusades were a series of military expeditions made by Catholic Europe to help their fellow Christians in the Byzantine Empire retake the HOLY LAND (roughly, modern day Israel and Syria) from Muslim control.
… other than the tension due to the Catholic Crusaders and the Byzantines being different sects of Christianity, the 4th Crusade was… notably disastrous for the Byzantines, with their capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul), being captured and sacked by the Catholic Crusaders, temporarily dissolving the Byzantine Empire as a cohesive entity entirely. This was emphatically not the goal of the 4th Crusade, which was supposed to conquer Jerusalem.
Clearly, they got a little distracted along the way!
Honestly, the 4th Crusade is just a whole miserable comedy of errors from start to finish.
It’s a good thing Europeans resolved their differences with the Middle East since then … right? … right? … RIGHT!?
Europe: “We’ve kind of lost interest since colonialism ended, tbqh.”
USA: “Please allow me to introduce myself…”
The US hasn’t arbitrarily drawn straight lines through the Middle East like the Brits did at the turn of the last century. Surely nothing can go wrong when you do that without considering ethnic or religious backgrounds.
Or how should I put it… Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.
Thanks, but The explanation I’m here looking for is: “is that Messi? And if so: why/where?”
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
You can read the history details about the whole affair and there were a lot of things at play at the time … but essentially, it was like an avalanche.
They gathered together a horde of angry, poor, illiterate, bored, landless and hopeless people and promised them glory, a beautiful afterlife and God’s blessing and led them on marches across Europe to get to Jerusalem. Instead, they ran out of money and someone had to deal with an angry mob of people with weapons along the way.
It was an avalanche of a mob of people with sharp pointy weapons … once you set it motion, it will destroy everything in its path without regard for what it is doing … no matter how holy or religious you want to call it.
That kid should not be holding a weapon.
