>>216141175
... Generally the crusades were just raids for gold and wealth under the pretense of a holy crusade.
It was basically viking raids. They slaughtered a lot of people started stealing everything they could after they established a base and pulled out when they ran out of shit to steal.
The crusades were just a capitalistic enterprise. It's why they aren't remembered well even though the wealth they stole set up europes Renaissance
If you ever wonder what the hell that happened that caused Europe to go up and the formerly rich otto/Persian/Muslim world to go down
It's the crusades