THE CRUSADES

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 THE CRUSADES
     
The background: 11th century

Many different factors contribute to one of the strangest threads in western medieval history. The story of the crusades is an exceptional blend of idealism and barbarity, even by the standards of other holy wars.

In the 11th century Europe is growing in confidence and wealth. The destructive raids of Vikings have ended, as the raiders themselves settle - in Normandy, Sicily and the British Isles. But by the same token the secular rulers of the time are confident, boisterous, unruly. Papal Rome is engaged in a long-term attempt to submit them to ecclesiastical authority. Involving them in a war for Christianity, under papal control, seems to offer a neat solution.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistoriesResponsive.asp?historyid=ab54#c1785

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Hollywood kills me. They always need a villain for the movie, and rather than do the research, they always dump it on the Templars.

100% Wrong.

Templars were the Good Guys.

I guess Hollywood hates them because they were Christian Warrior Monks, and the retards in H'wood don't have the guts to dump it where it belongs, the Roman Pope and Vatican dirty politics.