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.
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.