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They came to fight Muslims, but got caught in palace coups, and destroyed the greatest Christian city
The Fourth Crusade was meant to strike Egypt, but a financial crisis and a disastrous miscalculation left the crusaders ...
While the first three Crusades were launched in an effort to reclaim Jerusalem from Muslims, the Fourth Crusade, begun in 1202, pitted Christians against Christians: Roman Catholics against Orthodox.
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How the Fourth Crusade went off the rails, debt, Venice, and the sack of a Christian city
Behind the pious vows of the Fourth Crusade lay unpaid debts, political pressure, and a fateful deal with Venice that led to the brutal sack of Zara. This episode traces how financial desperation and ...
As a student of history, Ridley Scott knows as well as anyone that the Crusades have been given the gauzy, soft-focus treatment by Hollywood. What turned out to be “one of the blackest chapters in the ...
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