Why did the crusades happen only hundreds of years after the Arab Conquests?
>>18452936The Arabs were based, Charlemagne would agree. It was the Turks who were fucking shit up.
>>18452938I thought you Pakis worshipped both Arabs and Turks
>>18452956I only like the medjeet Turks. The mongoloid ones (as the original Seljuk Turkmens) need Genocide ASAP.
>>18452936The Greeks have a cuck fetish and wanted the French to join in.
>>18453002That video is so hot. Looked like they were going to kiss.
>>18452936It took a while for the church i.e. the pope to become sufficiently influential to call for such an action (and be heeded). Probably also required population and wealth in catholic areas to be sufficiently high to even make it viable.
>>18452936arabs couldn't endanger byzantine empire anymore by the time powerful western european states emerged. but seljuks could (and would).
>>18452936The rise of crusades correlated with the rise of the influence of the abbey of Cluny from what I remember. The first crusade-like military campaigns or "proto-crusades" were either a direct result from some sort of influence from Cluniac reformists or ended up giving some of the spoils to Cluny. I doubt the crusades would have come about without Cluniac influence.
The Muslim rulers of the mid east weren't restricting religious pilgrimages even for Christians, so there was little reason for the Pope to strongly agitate for action against them. In fact, him doing that would actually make life harder for Christians in the middle east, because the Muslims would seek reprisals from the Christians among them if Christians from Europe started to make war on them. It was in the Pope's best interest to let the issue lie, as long as the Arab rulers continued to be open-handed to other faiths in the matter of pilgrimage.But then the Seljuks arrived on the scene and upset the balance of power in the region. Well, mainly they upset the Byzantine emperors, who then complained to the pope, who then agitated for some kind of response from European chivalry to do something. He didn't actually intend for what happened, he just wanted some kind of Christian solidarity because it was a chance for the Patriarch of Rome to put his Eastern counterpart in his debt, and maybe even bring some of the east into his purview, heal a rift centuries old. What he got was violence on a scale he could have never imagined. Fist the wildly unsuccessful "popular crusade" got massacred in the Anatolian mountains by Turks, then the knightly crusade that followed it smashed city after city in truly inspired fashion, and wound up conquering a whole swathe of territory in the holy lands when they were only supposed to go there to protect pilgrims or something. Honestly, it was the Pope's bad on this because he wasn't very clear in his original speech what he wanted people to do. If you send a bunch of European nobility to a foreign country, they're going to start a fight. That's what they do.
>>18452936Because it took a while for the Frankish Kingdom to come to emergence in place of the Western Roman EmpireThe dark ages following the fall of the Western Roman Empire allowed the Early Muslim Conquests as there was weakness throughout Europe, North Africa and Anatolia. Byzantines and Persia were embroiled in war. No Catholic force was capable of stopping themIf the Franks never came around in time, perhaps all of Europe would have been Muslim
>>18453103The Arab Caliphates were litteraly raiding and raping anatolia for centuries. The grekoid emperor paid jizya even.Ignorant Kevin.
>>18453400And that situation had reversed under the Macedonian Dynasty and its direct predecessors while the Arab Caliphate declined and then fractured into a bunch of squabbling small states. The Turks arriving changed all that and reversed all the gains the Byzantines had made (and also destroyed the Arab states, but the Crusaders didn't really care about the latter).
>>18453400And they were completely incapable of actually making any serious damage on the empire since the early 8th century and from the 9th century onward were getting beaten constantly. >The grekoid emperor paid jizya even.Fell for Arab propaganda award. Framing it as a religious protection payment when it was not one.
