Why didn't they do a Crusade against them. They were complexly isolated from the rest of the Muslim world and could have been very easily destroyed.
Why would them? What benefit was there to go on a Crusade?
>the Russians are in the way>the Pope barely knows who they even are>Byzantium doesn't give a fuck about them>they just trade and farm>nobody gives a fuck about owning the Volga Kama besides Russians maybe>get pwned by the Mongols
And on top of that they were barely isolated, the Volga trade route kept them in touch with the rest of the Muslim world and Saqsin was a great pitstop to Shirvan, Northern Iran and Khwarezm.
>>18059848TO wipe out Asiatic mudslimes.
>>18059822Did they have stuff worth taking?
>>18059982TO wipe out Asiatic mudslimes.
>>18060092OK but you can't pay an army with muslim corpses.
>>18060098Dead Tartar mudslimes are greater than any treasure, according to CHristian doctrine.
A crusade needed broad popular and clerical support. The papacy preferred to present them as souls to save, which justified conquest, conversion, encomienda, and enslavement without the mobilizing, destabilizing category of crusade.
>>18060100That's nice, but doctrine is a notoriously stingy paymaster. Were the humans wealthy enough for their conquest to pay for itself? Even a holy war needs to run in the black.
>>18060134Absolution of sins and they may rape and pillage the countryside as they like after the conquest, they may even overhunt the game and cut down every tree until nothing is left.
>>18060145Cool. Trees. Worth the march.
