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Christianity is a native religion of the region. It was born in Jerusalem and was endemic throughout the Middle East and North Africa before the Muslims invaded.

"Nothing that rivals the terror of the crusades" ...mongolian throat singing in the background.

"Violence never seen before" Like the Romans in Dacia. The Romans in Jerusalem. The Romans in Carthage. Attila (The scourge of god), exterminating cities full of civilians. Just to name a few pre crusade, pre Christian events more violent than any crusade.

"unprecedented hate" Cato the Elder : "hold my salt"

It's weird. In 1986 (9th grade), I had a World History teacher who was fantastic. And in 1986 he warned our little, young MushMinds that books such as the garbage you hold in your hands would be coming. Objectivity and a desire to cultivate THOUGHT still existed as recent as the 1980s. Just, wow.

Why Does the Heathen Rage - Awesome novel by J. Stephen Roberts - Highly recommend to everyone watching this and please support Knights of the Cross!

As a Catholic and registered nurse, I LOVE that shirt you’re rocking.

What?! A Rolling Stone contributor who’s dishonest?! Who would have thought😄

Rolling Stone magazine has....words? Not just photos?! Do the subscribers know that?

Really interesting and insightful. Even in Catholic school, they said the Crusaders were evil and abominable savages. I’m glad you set the record straight.

Great video, also worth noting that the raids in the Mediterranean by Muslims powers didn't stop in the 11th century, in fact up until the 18th century, slaves were taken from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and even as far away as the southern coast of England & the western part of Ireland , also Iceland! America even went to war with the Barbary states because they took Americans as slaves! Nobody seems to want to talk about the millions of eastern Europeans, Ukrainians & Russians that were forced into slavery due to the ottomans, Mongols, etc! I guess if it's white people been enslaved it doesn't fit a certain narrative!

Yet another reason I love the Real Crusades History channel. I totally appreciate your clinical examination about history J. It's very important for proper education that we can understand what we are looking at warts and all. Looking forward to Knights of the Cross too.

🤔"Early 2000's", "Rolling stone"........I mean , who would have thought , right? 🤣

These people can't even be honest about what chivalry really is rather than the self hatred for courtship they tout it to be. Really pisses me off.

In 1096 the Levant was a battlefield and The Crusaders basically were like "Player 3 has entered the game"

You forgot to say that those land were not only initially Christian countries conquered by Muslims but that when the crusades happened, they were still mostly inhabited by Christians. In Egypt, Palestine or Syria, Christians became a minority only at the end of middle ages.. It was rather freeing christian countries than conquering islamic ones.

It is, much harder to pass this crap off nowadays. Because of the internet and quite frankly you in particular are a huge part of that.

I am really grateful for your channel. It is a good counterweight to a lot of the disingenuous garbage that I hear about the Crusades. Keep up the good work.

It should always set off a little alert in your head when you can tell the author is rooting for one side.

Victor Davis Hanson in fact described Alexander's relentless and victorious drive into the Persian Empire as, in a sense, "the first Western Crusade." And that of course was well BEFORE Christianity or Islam existed.

I am so grateful that folks like you sink so much time into correcting the errors.

Love clarifying history,there are written records from the times,it,s good to avoid changing history,thankyou real crusades

You’re the man. I love your material.

Stumbled across the channel. Great video, look foward to more

In Provence (in the south east of France ) nearly all the villages are on top of hill because of the muslims raids.

I remember reading somewhere that virtually all crusaders returned home with a net loss of money, based on some data from Galician and Occitanian crusaders who would take off with lots of money and, armament etc. and return with basically nothing.

This chap is a superb historian. His work is excellent and enjoyable. Thank you.

Good stuff, as always!

Thanks for posting this counter balance to current amnesia

Awesome work J. Stephen Roberts!

Great video. You are a real historian.

suggesting that the crusades were somehow unprecedented in terms of violence ... did this person ever hear of roman conquests?

I just discovered your channel. Awesome!

Great information.

Excellent commentary.

I remember something my history teacher once told me about the crusades. To show how desperate the eastern (orthodox church) were against Arab attacks, apparently the eastern pope hated the roman pope but with the constant attacks and enslavement of Christian settlements, he no choice to ask him for help. I’m not sure how accurate this is but its always something that stuck with me.

Excellent. Thanks for calmly getting the real historical facts out there 🙂

So happy to hear you set the story right. Thank You.

this (the book) is what happens when fedoras do history

I knew as soon as you described the author as "some guy", that this "some guy" was going to be in for a roast.

This content deserves more views! Very interesting and valid, fills in blanks from what is taught in school. Ps, i am a historian by education.

I really liked this video keep up the fine work sir 💪🏻

I would congratulate you for your brilliant critique; but you were only up against an intellectual midget. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.

Interesting thanks for the video...

Good video excellent detail.🛡🗡

I mean how far do you want to go back? Perhaps the Hittite Empire vs Egypt because you simply have to start somewhere. The point is the middle east has been one big ongoing battle ground since for ever. The grasslands of the fertile crescent was the great prize for those coming out of the asian steppes. To say the crusades bought a new level of violence never seen before to the Middle east proves one thing. The person who wrote that garbage was an ignorant fool.

I acquaint the book you first showed to those ancient alien and Bermuda triangle books that were so popular in the seventies and eighties. Big on thrills, low on facts.

Rolling stone and vanity fair? I think I see the problem alright.

thanks for addressing the fragmentation of the Islamic world during this period, low information stuff about the Crusades doesn't touch that important context at all

Love your simple one-sentence conclusion!

Have you covered much on Charles V's wars with Suleiman I?

"Unhistorical" may be one of the best words I've heard in a long time lol

Do you have any information about the Knight Albero de Cagnauo 1064 to 1100. I believe he fought in the first Crusade for Jerusalem. Thank you

Crusade is more of a modern term and thus we refer to each expedition as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. But in the time period the Crusades were actually taking place, how did medieval Christians refer to them?

Hey, it's Jay Stephen Roberts!

I would love to hear your review of good and bad books to read.

Yo I’m loving that shirt

I picked up a book a while back called ‘The Crusades’ by Thomas Asbridge. Any thoughts on this book and author?

yeah and 200 years?, depending on one view the crusades were still going on during the 1500s to the 1700s

We leave in deaply cynical world. The fought that so munch people where ready to take so much risk for spiritual motivation with little material win is totaly alien for a lot of us

Sounds like the book was awful, then.

Well said. New member here

I shared this on a different (relevant) channel hoping to cross polinate a bit (so to speak)

Thank goodness I didn’t buy this book. It was in my Amazon basket.

Thanks for the review. This book is/was on my shelf unread. It’s getting traded in. A real shame as I bought it because it appeared to be extremely popular in the subject. I can imagine a large amount of people reading it and assuming it to be factual. A real shame.

Thanks for the true

This is what happens when journalists try to be historians.

Those are lies we were fed. It’s very dumb. But thanks for being a light in the darkness!

As much as we all say we want to be 100% honest and truthful about history, we all have a natural bias based on our CURRENT philosophical beliefs. That book is a prime example of that. "Rewriting history", happens by almost every nationality and religious belief. And those who have no religious belief STILL has belief about religion. This affects every single person in the world. It affects every one of us. We all have a predisposed idea of how we think the world should be. And then we look at history though those glasses. We can't even all agree on current events... Much less historic ones! That's why wars (crusades or any other names we want to call it) have been fought in times past, why they are being fought now, and why wars will continue to be fought into the future. Wars are fought over land and beliefs. Some good wars. Some bad wars. We all agree with, "the good wars"... and we all disagree with "the bad wars". But we can't all agree on which wars are good, and which wars are bad. I do like these videos. They are very informative and they are presented with as much balance as possible.

The guy in the thumbnail looks a lot like Rodrigo Santoro

Is your book available on audio?

15:29 You made a slight mistake in saying ".. neither is christianity". Christianity was indeed a native religion of that area in the fact that it grew out of Judea/Palestine.

Any religion can have fanatical factions .

Saladin was a Kurd.

3:45 I’m starting to notice that Turks and Armenians don’t go well.

It's been a long time since high school but didn't Rome wage holy wars in this region?

At least the preface didn't offer an apology on behalf of the human race.

Hey dude. Love what you do. Quick question: what's your opinion on Dan Jones' books? Specifically The Crusades

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You play guitar or is it just decoration?

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