Crusade Before The Crusades? Sardinia Expedition (1015-1017)
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No need to present Crusades as a strangle agains muslims. Charlemagne' Frankia was in good terms with the Caliphate. Charlemagne calling Harun al-Rashid his brother. Crusades were agains kidnapping christians, selling them to slavery or requesting a ransom. It was against prohibiting Christins to visit the Holy Jerusalem. It was agains cutting trade routes with India. It was agains introducing piracy. All these were introduced with Seljuks having upper hand in the region.
What went wrong during the following Crusades is another matter, culmination of which was Crusaders conquering the Eastern Roman Empire.
Date: 2022-09-10
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Homer
'For many Arabic scholars the beginning of the Crusading period had been in the 1060's and 1070's', then they would be missing the whole idea of a Crusade.
It wasn't about taking any old area from Muslims, (That's why the are call Reconquista and not Crusades in Spain) but the recovery of Jerusalem, the holy land. That why Crusades could and did fail. Otherwise just taking that village over there would be a success. It also involved the idea of pilgrimage, who would do a pilgrimage to Sardinia?
Papal sanction doesn't equal a Crusade, otherwise the invasion of England by William the Bastard would have been a 'Crusade'. And just because an 19th historian calls an attack on a Muslim town a crusade, doesn't make it one either (retrofitting to the max.
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'For many Arabic scholars the beginning of the Crusading period had been in the 1060's and 1070's', then they would be missing the whole idea of a Crusade.
It wasn't about taking any old area from Muslims, (That's why the are call Reconquista and not Crusades in Spain) but the recovery of Jerusalem, the holy land. That why Crusades could and did fail. Otherwise just taking that village over there would be a success. It also involved the idea of pilgrimage, who would do a pilgrimage to Sardinia?
Papal sanction doesn't equal a Crusade, otherwise the invasion of England by William the Bastard would have been a 'Crusade'. And just because an 19th historian calls an attack on a Muslim town a crusade, doesn't make it one either (retrofitting to the max.
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Lisa
How come the Muslim conquests of other countries is OK but taking them back is bad? This doesn't make sense. The only ones that are considered wrong are the ones beating back Muslim conquests, why? Good on you for acknowledging the Muslim slave trade, few will. The west has been taught that the only slavery was white against black without ever teaching that slavery was a constant throughout history. Thank you for acknowledging that the slavs were so often used as slaves that it is where we get the name. Ask yourself why, despite having a more extensive & far longer before & after the European slave trade in Africans, do you not see a black diaspora in Muslim countries. The answer will turn your stomach.
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How come the Muslim conquests of other countries is OK but taking them back is bad? This doesn't make sense. The only ones that are considered wrong are the ones beating back Muslim conquests, why? Good on you for acknowledging the Muslim slave trade, few will. The west has been taught that the only slavery was white against black without ever teaching that slavery was a constant throughout history. Thank you for acknowledging that the slavs were so often used as slaves that it is where we get the name. Ask yourself why, despite having a more extensive & far longer before & after the European slave trade in Africans, do you not see a black diaspora in Muslim countries. The answer will turn your stomach.
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Vegan
According to Gnostic Phrophecy it appears that due their eating of Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil ( that is eating of animals, animalism) the forebearers had good and evil. They had much evil due to a diet that makes them have hardheartedness. Creatures are not food. plant kingdom is, it's of Tree of Life. To Be Children / Sons of Light, do the Heavenly Fathers goodwill, be harmless as doves. Avoid and cause no evil. love.
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According to Gnostic Phrophecy it appears that due their eating of Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil ( that is eating of animals, animalism) the forebearers had good and evil. They had much evil due to a diet that makes them have hardheartedness. Creatures are not food. plant kingdom is, it's of Tree of Life. To Be Children / Sons of Light, do the Heavenly Fathers goodwill, be harmless as doves. Avoid and cause no evil. love.
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budibausto
First collision was much earlier, the battle of Garigliano in 915. Franks, Longobards, Italians and Eastern Romans vs arab muslims, who already settled and raided central Italy since 880s. As usual, they infiltrated first by being traders then establishing strongholds over a period of 6o years, in order to launch attacks and taking over lands to convert. Never forget.
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First collision was much earlier, the battle of Garigliano in 915. Franks, Longobards, Italians and Eastern Romans vs arab muslims, who already settled and raided central Italy since 880s. As usual, they infiltrated first by being traders then establishing strongholds over a period of 6o years, in order to launch attacks and taking over lands to convert. Never forget.
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Bryan
I'm very disturbed at the west's own judgment of the Crusades. As it being wrong either historically, and/or it being necessary to hold some present-day guilt for them.
As a staunch athiest (should not matter, there should be NO shadow over them.
The plain text of their writing demands always to strive towards world domination. It is NOT the extreme view!
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I'm very disturbed at the west's own judgment of the Crusades. As it being wrong either historically, and/or it being necessary to hold some present-day guilt for them.
As a staunch athiest (should not matter, there should be NO shadow over them.
The plain text of their writing demands always to strive towards world domination. It is NOT the extreme view!
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Drumsgoon
I liked this a lot. Although it becomes clear throughout the video, in the beginning you could have put a bit more stress on the century long muslim expansion into the Christian world, for context. I am not religious, but these days it seems the Crusades are often singled as a Christian lunacy, so the context of the muslim lunacy that preceded it could help.
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I liked this a lot. Although it becomes clear throughout the video, in the beginning you could have put a bit more stress on the century long muslim expansion into the Christian world, for context. I am not religious, but these days it seems the Crusades are often singled as a Christian lunacy, so the context of the muslim lunacy that preceded it could help.
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KTM
Mujahid was the driving force behind denia, he was an amiris official in charge of eastern al andalus, which was known for harboring many pirates nests. He organised them and saw to conquere Mediterranean Islands to control trade (mercantile Enterprise) that's all, it had nothing to do with religion, he was too ambitious a sea empire
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Mujahid was the driving force behind denia, he was an amiris official in charge of eastern al andalus, which was known for harboring many pirates nests. He organised them and saw to conquere Mediterranean Islands to control trade (mercantile Enterprise) that's all, it had nothing to do with religion, he was too ambitious a sea empire
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Anders
From the Nuraghi, to the Punic and Roman periods, the time when the island was a battleground between Genoa, Pisa, and Aragon, to its instrumental role in Italian unification, the history of Sardinia has always been fascinating! I was planning on going this summer after graduation, oh well, at least I have videos like this.
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From the Nuraghi, to the Punic and Roman periods, the time when the island was a battleground between Genoa, Pisa, and Aragon, to its instrumental role in Italian unification, the history of Sardinia has always been fascinating! I was planning on going this summer after graduation, oh well, at least I have videos like this.
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Cucciolo
The story about Al-Andalus is totally fictional, Sardinia never been conquered by muslims, in the island there aren't ruins of muslim settlements and it wasn't find not even a single object which can demonstrate any kind of arab occupation.
That story comes from a novel written in the XIX century.
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The story about Al-Andalus is totally fictional, Sardinia never been conquered by muslims, in the island there aren't ruins of muslim settlements and it wasn't find not even a single object which can demonstrate any kind of arab occupation.
That story comes from a novel written in the XIX century.
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Pony4Koma
So this is what happend to the califal fleet of Al-Andalus.
I had been wondering why it just disapears from the historical recored in the 1st Taifa period. (to the point I even thought it my have never actualy realy existed)
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So this is what happend to the califal fleet of Al-Andalus.
I had been wondering why it just disapears from the historical recored in the 1st Taifa period. (to the point I even thought it my have never actualy realy existed)
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Isaac
All of the Crusades were re-conquests of former Christian lands and people.
And yes I know that there were other religions in those lands besides Christianity, before they were Brutally subjugated and enslaved by Muslim armies.
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All of the Crusades were re-conquests of former Christian lands and people.
And yes I know that there were other religions in those lands besides Christianity, before they were Brutally subjugated and enslaved by Muslim armies.
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Vince
Except the crusades came after close to 400 years of Muslim wars (Crusades. In fact the, Europe fighting Muslim conquers was the Reconquest, of Europe. Actually if Basil 1 had not worked out agreement, it would have been earlier.
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Except the crusades came after close to 400 years of Muslim wars (Crusades. In fact the, Europe fighting Muslim conquers was the Reconquest, of Europe. Actually if Basil 1 had not worked out agreement, it would have been earlier.
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SCINTILLAM
Later comes the Portuguese Empire whose people never thank the Italians for making it possible, especially Venice and Genoa. But I'm Spanish so I thank Italians like Columbus despite his worshipping Satan as I can prove.
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Later comes the Portuguese Empire whose people never thank the Italians for making it possible, especially Venice and Genoa. But I'm Spanish so I thank Italians like Columbus despite his worshipping Satan as I can prove.
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Terzia
So after the muslim armies were driven out of Sardinia, the proto-crusaders started immediately fighting amongst themselves, effectively becoming the new invasion force on the island. Truly, a harbinger of things to come.
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So after the muslim armies were driven out of Sardinia, the proto-crusaders started immediately fighting amongst themselves, effectively becoming the new invasion force on the island. Truly, a harbinger of things to come.
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blastulae
Hardly the Early Middle Ages. AD 1015 is closer to smack dab in the middle thereof, but in the second half, depending upon when you think they ended. I'm going with AD 476 to 1492, which would make the middle 984.
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Hardly the Early Middle Ages. AD 1015 is closer to smack dab in the middle thereof, but in the second half, depending upon when you think they ended. I'm going with AD 476 to 1492, which would make the middle 984.
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Anders
Another great video! My only gripe is your use of the phrase Moslem blood, as by that logic, Berbers, Iranians and Turks also don't have any, as they were all peoples who had converted. Did you mean Arab ancestry?
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Another great video! My only gripe is your use of the phrase Moslem blood, as by that logic, Berbers, Iranians and Turks also don't have any, as they were all peoples who had converted. Did you mean Arab ancestry?
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Zealot-87
Why is this narrator talking about this mujahid guy not having 'muslim blood'? There is no such thing as 'muslim blood'. Do some better research. I'm a muslim. Im Irish and Hungarian in ancestry.
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Why is this narrator talking about this mujahid guy not having 'muslim blood'? There is no such thing as 'muslim blood'. Do some better research. I'm a muslim. Im Irish and Hungarian in ancestry.
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Muhammed
Mujahid al-Amiri faced fierce resistance from the Sardinian people before he crushed them and killed their leader, Maloto. He wanted to build a state and a military base to attack and seize Rome.
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Mujahid al-Amiri faced fierce resistance from the Sardinian people before he crushed them and killed their leader, Maloto. He wanted to build a state and a military base to attack and seize Rome.
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Brad
So what you're saying is muslims haven't changed for over 1000 years. They still practice slavery, they still kill Christians for being Christian, and they haven't changed technologically.
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So what you're saying is muslims haven't changed for over 1000 years. They still practice slavery, they still kill Christians for being Christian, and they haven't changed technologically.
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