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📜 Europe's First Crusade - Part 1 - Extra History
In 1095CE, Pope Urban gathered the leaders of the Christian community at the Council of Clermont. Urged on by Emperor Alexius Comnenos of Constantinople, he called for a crusade to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied Jerusalem. Muslims had occupied the Holy Land for over 400 years, but the timing was politically right for the Pope and the Byzantine Emperor. Pope Urban wanted to re-unite Christendom after the anti-Pope kicked him out of Rome, while Alexius Comnenus wanted to retake the territory he had recently lost in Anatolia from the Seljuq Turks. As incentive, the Pope offered crusaders a plenary indulgence: complete forgiveness for past sins in the eyes of God and the church. It worked too well. While the official armies of the Crusade prepared, a charismatic leader named Peter the Hermit began breaching directly to the people, claiming Jesus had sent him to lead them on Crusade. Walter sans Avoir joined him in France, and a man named Count Emicho of Leiningen emulated him in Germany. Both peasant groups met with and created disaster: Walter Sans Avoir's group pillaged Belgrade while Count Emicho's group turned on the local Jewish population as an excuse to slaughter them. Thus the First Crusade began with a disastrous People's Crusade.
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@HoundofOdin 5 лет назад

"Thousands of Jews were slaughtered." Seems to be a pretty common phrase throughout history.

@JJ-kd5st 5 лет назад

Proud2bGreek umm

@arroyhondo 5 лет назад

Kicked out of 109 countries throughout centuries hrmmmmm

@akunhun4499 5 лет назад

OY VEY

@melanienebula2550 5 лет назад

Proud2bGreek I bet you’re a Holocaust denier

@austinreed7343 5 лет назад

Dr.Bright By Germans, no less. Indiana Jones was right.

@sinnerthesinful552 5 лет назад

I aways wondered why, in crusader kings 2, my king could do a pilgrimage to jerusalem without dying or something bad happening to him

@somerandomguyfromthebeyond1821 4 года назад

same reason why every empire/kingdom in that game tends to get into a civil war every five minutes

@abbad707 4 года назад

lmao.

@noahgray543 3 года назад

But something bad does happen to him, he had to travel before the industrial age. Truly terrible.

@mop_hair7848 3 года назад

Well, now it’s Crusader Kings 3

@apalahartisebuahnama7684 3 года назад

As long as king pay to local Emir or sultan then it's fine

@adriannaranjo4397 6 лет назад

We must march to reclaim the holy land! *5 minutes later* Hey, let's just attack and pillage our own people. It's a shorter walk

@sushikitty5621 4 года назад

@wilfthebig7910 4 года назад

@@sushikitty5621 Crusaders attacked random village

@sushikitty5621 4 года назад

@@wilfthebig7910 thx

@Reub3 4 года назад

Literally sounds exactly like antifa and blm in our modern times. antifa: lets get those pesky conservatives who are on the wrong side of history and take over. *later the same day* loots and burns their own cities.

@normatrujillo5036 3 года назад

Adrian Naranjo im the like number 1000

@awddfg 5 лет назад

*_-Try and take Jerusalem_* *_-Fight each other_* *_-Profit?_*

@jano867 5 лет назад

Stonks

@beeplayed8753 5 лет назад

༼ つ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ༽つ

@kiri2784 5 лет назад

Profit.

@kayseek1248 4 года назад

The Mr. Man 420 likes

@chrischu1285 8 лет назад

I joined just for the Crusader trait.

@azazeldryland3997 8 лет назад

+Chris Chu This is beautiful

@markhomer6903 8 лет назад

+Chris Chu Not sure if MED2 joke, Or Eu

@markhomer6903 8 лет назад

Still saving for that game.. for a actually good version(dlc)its like 70 pounds

@markhomer6903 8 лет назад

Yeah.

@markhomer6903 8 лет назад

I'm saving up for HOI4 first.

@grfrjiglstan 9 лет назад

Wow. I knew the crusades were a mess, but this...holy shit.

@jacobwisner7821 9 лет назад

***** Yeah I kind of assumed I knew how things went down (badly), but the sheer idiotic violence and depravity of it all exceeds my assumptions.

@Tr3at_y0_self 9 лет назад

I see what you did there

@khornhole 9 лет назад

PINGPONGROCKSBRAH said the guy from Germany

@tammysilverwolf1085 9 лет назад

***** Yeah, it's crazy what organization and a tight leash can do for (or to) a martial force and those that encounter it. If you want a little bit of extra reading check out the ill fated Children's Crusade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade Not nearly as spectacular, but every bit as tragic.

@Quadlaser 9 лет назад

***** Holy shit indeed

@feynstein1004 6 лет назад

I know it's not a laughing matter but I find the sheer randomness of the events really amusing. Pretty much any wise guy could gather up a mob, claim to be crusaders and do whatever he wanted. And the silly cartoons don't help either.

@nathanbruce1992 6 лет назад

Feynstein 100: I think that’s why I have always enjoyed history. I like entertaining a very simplified view of complex events and it’s hilarious to me every time. Don’t get me wrong I like painting the entire picture. Knowing more backstory helps build that background. It’s almost like a tv show but things that have actually happened

@acebalistic1358 6 лет назад

A few young men took 2000 children girls on a “crusade” It was much worse if you see what I mean

@aaroncohen2700 6 лет назад

Tyler McDaniel where do I look?

@Crosshill 6 лет назад

the crusades are hilarious, from the very beginning of the very first to the ending of the last, just senseless chaos throughout

@johnapple6646 6 лет назад

Germans slaughtering Jews? Well that's nothing new

@chaosXP3RT 4 года назад

Jesus: "Killing is a sin" Medieval Christians: "So anyway I started pillaging and killing on my way to Jerusalem"

@MrDwarfpitcher 3 года назад

Also Jesus "Treat another like you would like to be treated yourself" Crusaders: "I cannot hear you over all the sounds of robbing Jews"

@thelonegunman2622 3 года назад

Read “the justification of war” by saint Thomas Aquinas

@forty5842 3 года назад

Seriously are you guyz trying to accuse him?! *DO NOT*

@forty5842 3 года назад

Seriously are you guyz trying to accuse him?! *DO NOT*

@bigtoefungusvs.friedpochun7612 3 года назад

@@forty5842 I don't think they are accusing Jesus, but the Crusaders

@ferrari528 9 лет назад

You can say they were very...hungary

@lewissosa5769 9 лет назад

ferrari528 (takes off hat)

@LesterRamos 9 лет назад

ferrari528 >:( GO TO YOUR ROOM! YOU"RE GROUNDED FOR MAKING DAT PUN!

@Gregtami 9 лет назад

ferrari528 *pulls out a knife*

@RukasuInoru 9 лет назад

ferrari528 **tips fedora**

@kassh 9 лет назад

ferrari528 as a hungarian all i can say is that this is totally the first time i heard that pun

@binifarmer4045 8 лет назад

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd that an 11th-century marketplace would have pumpkins when they're indigenous to America at the time?

@sarahhartman3360 8 лет назад

Yup, the potatoes are also anachronistic.

@addadu8031 8 лет назад

Magic.

@iiiiitsmagreta1240 7 лет назад

Walpole.

@HolyknightVader999 7 лет назад

Vikings. They reached up to North America, and they converted to Catholicism.

@zyaicob 7 лет назад

+HolyknightVader999 But Walpole.

@CamishPwndU 5 лет назад

I love the random acts of compassion by the bishops and other Christian clergy members, so unexpected at this time in history.

@Francesco-cj3oi 4 года назад

I think they were just trying to stop those crusaders from killing the wrong people

@Reub3 4 года назад

obviously there were good people all over europe that much rather live in peace than having to die.

@gekkenhuisje 3 года назад

Actually, an account by a Jewish scholar from Mainz at the time reveals that the bishops only acted to protect the communities of Jews thanks to bribes that wealthier Jews gave them. Jewish communities had to keep giving bribes to maintain their protection.

@MrAkaacer 3 года назад

There is too much BS about the Church during the medieval period. Most point out the cruelty and corruption, but few ever mention the charity and aide. During this period, priests weren't the only ones that preached, so you can have some nut case twisting the words of the bible to their advantage. They just needed to be clever enough not to be blasphemous.

@Cecilia-ky3uw 2 года назад

@Himanshu Soni not really himanshu soni the holy land was a genuine motivation and paying muslims who conquered quite a lot and who are your rivals does not sound good to me also "Alexios Komnenos" is another way i explain the crusades

@chimera9468 Год назад

It's been years since this was released. I remember my 7th grade history class played this for us on a rainy day. This video and series sparked my previously snuffed love for history. Even if Extra Credits is a shell of its former self, I'll always love these older videos.

@CroTsar1916 Год назад

Why a Shell of its former self, if you don't mind me asking? I don't necessarily disagree with you, just was hoping you could elaborate.

@serenisma3402 Год назад

@@CroTsar1916There's this idea (that i don't agree with), that since Dave (the narator) left, videos just havent been the same, so i think thats what he's referring to

@CroTsar1916 Год назад

@@serenisma3402 I can see that. It took some time for me to adjust to the new narrator and direction, but I have come to appreciate it now.

@thenoblepoptart 10 месяцев назад

Extra History comes out with heavy hitters still. Siege of Vienna, Vlad, Policing London, Haitian Revolution, 3rd century crisis, 100 years war, ETC. the new narrator is soy but the series is good as ever still

@thelimon4338 9 месяцев назад

@@CroTsar1916it’s still the same writing and witty style I like the new narrator I do like this narrator for obvious reasons as he was the first

@TheNetherlandDwarf 9 лет назад

Wait so the pope calls a Crusade, leading to a clash of cultures across the Mediterranean, and so a larger introduction of eastern culture to the West, leading to increased trade opportunities and desire for their goods. Increased trade? Accelerated economic ideas and technology, major point of this development? Naval trade. Increased naval trade leads to better ships and a desire for new trade routes also, contributing eventually to the discovery of the new world with Colombus searching for new routes to Asia and from this we get the booming colonies and their trade. Especially in Spain and Portugal who monopolise the southern routes to America. Meanwhile who looks at this trade with interest as a way to benefit himself...? That's right, *WALPOLE*. So basically the Crusades were the single main cause for the South Sea Bubble. I see why you chose this topic EC!

@alexgibson781 9 лет назад

ChannelShoreyo Whoa. That's pretty mind blowing. ( Extra Credits )

@Postalpacifist 9 лет назад

ChannelShoreyo So then anything that is "because Walpole" is also "because Pope Urban II"?

@kierkiboy 9 лет назад

This theory has been disproven for a pretty long time now. The communication between the christian and muslim world had already been great for decades before the crusades. The crusades did not open up Europe for new Arabian knowledge.

@TheNetherlandDwarf 9 лет назад

Didn't say they started it, they only increased the interplay between them with all the cultures clashing by the mediterranean sea. The words I used were "increased trade opportunities and desire for their goods"

@kierkiboy 9 лет назад

Okay but you're still wrong, they did not increase the opportunities and desire for Arabian goods at all. If anything they actually decreased communication between the two worlds (who were barely separate).

@cactuarlol8288 9 лет назад

God, its as bad as trying to organise a city raid in WoW

@Necroskull388 9 лет назад

CactuarLOL That actually happens in the Fourth Crusade. Except... Well, to put it in WoW terms, Stormwind got raided by the Alliance.

@HolyknightVader999 9 лет назад

Dagda Mor Well, not really. More like they raided a neutral faction that back stabbed them.

@neurofiedyamato8763 6 лет назад

If you think 1st crusade is bad, the 4th is the worst of the worst. Spoiler alert, they opened the floodgates for the Turks to expand in to Europe.

@elroyscout 3 года назад

@@neurofiedyamato8763 Litterally a total failure in terms of goal acomplishment

@fidatogalib5485 4 года назад

Church: Don’t kill Christian. Crusade: how about we do it anyway.

@dannyruiz3329 4 года назад

You know its going to be a messed up campaign when a dude motivates you without arms, but somehow has hands.

@PINGPONGROCKSBRAH 9 лет назад

I just realized that the guy holding the bow at 1:20 is going to fail spectacularly when he tries to fire it. The string is just going to slide down the shaft and the arrow isn't going to go anywhere. Also, this video made me appreciate how awesome grocery stores are.

@AegixDrakan 9 лет назад

PINGPONGROCKSBRAH OMG, you're right. That arrow ain't going anywhere. XD

@ElFeilasouf 9 лет назад

PINGPONGROCKSBRAH Why makes you say this ?

@AegixDrakan 9 лет назад

Khayam The back end of the arrow isn't nocked onto the string of the bow. When the guy lets go of the string to launch the arrow, the arrow isn't going to be pushed by the string and launched. XD

@notbobby125 9 лет назад

PINGPONGROCKSBRAH I think we found the first addition to the lies video. XD

@Duke_of_Lorraine 9 лет назад

PINGPONGROCKSBRAH How to make a succesful crusade 1- make sure there are enough McDonald's (or other fast food chains) along the road chosen to reach the destination.

@zupergozer 9 лет назад

I love Peter the Hermit's portrayal in this as a madman running through Europe just yelling "Crusade!". Its how I pictured him

@Neonnotecards 4 года назад

To summarize: "You cant do that!" Crusaders: *bet*

@a_channel2545 4 года назад

Pope Urban: Okay guys, I’ve got a plan for this. We can pull this off, but you need to follow the carefully put together plan. Way Too Many People: Nah fam, we got this. Pope Urban: No. No you don’t.

@ModelOmegaForReal 9 лет назад

If you think this is bad just wait until we get to the fourth crusade. Also known as the crazy one. (Hint, nobody even reaches the holy land)

@superdark336 9 лет назад

ModelOmega Also known as "Lets get byzzy"

@RunItsTheCat 9 лет назад

ModelOmega Too much spoilers m8.

@OmegaLittleBob 9 лет назад

ModelOmega There was a Fourth Crusade??? I thought there were only 3.

@gibzit 9 лет назад

OmegaLittleBob There were like 12 crusades.

@OmegaLittleBob 9 лет назад

Ido Herling *Shakes Head* Good Grief

@Croiisssant 8 лет назад

Those three bishops need more notoriety. They are true heroes

@Croiisssant 8 лет назад

zoiuduu nope I am afraid I haven't

@user-vf5mp3vj8j 7 лет назад

killing innocents women and children and elders is not a heroic action to me !!

@Crick1952 7 лет назад

القعقاع بن عمرو التميمي OP's talking about the bishops that protected the Jews

@Croiisssant 7 лет назад

What they said ^

@Croiisssant 7 лет назад

zoiuduu You're alright :)

@Howto-uo8uc 4 года назад

"How did they respond?"...."by pillaging the country side"😂😂

@mamc1986 6 лет назад

I love how you used that Sharknado as an example of a mess. I enjoy these videos so much!

@AlltimeNumbers 9 лет назад

A really interesting part of history I knew little about. Great job EC!

@giorgilobjanidze5667 9 лет назад

Alltime Numbers just look up the child crusade

@extrahistory 9 лет назад

Alltime Numbers Thanks, ATN! It's gonna be a pretty wild ride, so hang on tight. ;)

@giorgilobjanidze5667 9 лет назад

no the one where a bunch of kids were killed in the sea

@worldofwarcraftman2 9 лет назад

giorgi lobjanidze Never happened unless you read the inaccurate accounts, even in Medieval times they'd never send children into battle, its stupid in this day it is possible, thanks to AK-47s but in that time no not a chance and the way the society was it would never happen.

@giorgilobjanidze5667 9 лет назад

just look it up

@AgentTasmania 8 лет назад

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

@jeromebushrid4074 6 лет назад

Edge

@jeromebushrid4074 6 лет назад

asdf jkl; the video is actually largely incorrect

@ariandynas 6 лет назад

Based on.... what claims precisely? Don't get to say you've refuted someone unless you can cite your own sources.

@comradepootis3665 6 лет назад

The 6th Army tried that. Then it turned out those stupid people in large groups could make masterfully crafted large groups of tanks. And pincer maneuver.

@archieames1968 6 лет назад

The Arabs magically appeared all throughout the middle east and eastern europe one day, nobody was killed at all!

@toocutenoirb.4278 6 лет назад

As a History Major i love channels like this cause its tells stories people should know! Great job

@Ostentatiousnessness 4 года назад

Fun fact: When a Pope and an Anti-Pope collide the both -destroy- annihilate each other. True story.

@tjs200 4 года назад

I think the technical term is "annihilate"

@Ostentatiousnessness 4 года назад

Timothy Schellin Thank you for the correction.

@llSuperSnivyll 3 года назад

Holy explosions, Batman!

@fabiannymands3704 8 лет назад

The Motto of the Guys rushing through the Balkan was probably "Hungry in Hungary"

@KalteGeist 6 лет назад

Yeah they should have gone to Turkey.

@CockatooDude 6 лет назад

+Dogemar Do not worry, I know all too well.

@911Maci 6 лет назад

they wanted to have turkey for dinner

@DamonNomad82 6 лет назад

To organize the comments on this thread into a single narrative: The peasants on crusade were on their way to have a Turkey dinner, but they got Hungary on the way...

@nxdiaz5916 6 лет назад

Verne Is it possible to love and hate a quote simultaneously

@1BlueYoshi 9 лет назад

Holy shit a video on the internet that vaguely references religion and yet the comments are not an absolute shitstorm? I'm impressed. This channel has some great fans, I'm proud to be a part of it :)

@Josephistry 6 лет назад

It's probably because the first crusade is a meme

@Delta-es1lg 6 лет назад

Nah man, just look at the comments under all time numbers comment. It’s a mess down there.

@fulcrum2951 6 лет назад

Just wait...

@gavingrey1362 5 лет назад

Oh the irony they got Hungry in Hungary

@bigtoefungusvs.friedpochun7612 3 года назад

*coincidence

@rrosski 3 года назад

@@bigtoefungusvs.friedpochun7612, beautiful username.

@wavestrider2160 5 лет назад

0:26 and thus The meme was born

@aaronman4772 9 лет назад

People masquerading as people of faith in a misguided attempt to use the faith to gain power. As a Catholic man myself, it pisses me off so much when people use the faith and the faith of others to gain their own power under the guise of a holy quest.

@AnonnymouZ 9 лет назад

aaronman4772 no true scotsman fallacy. it doesn't matter what we call them, what matters is religion inspired them to call themselves whatever title they wanted.

@t3hsourcey 9 лет назад

aaronman4772 Orthodox Christianity has done a better job at keeping itself further from such mishaps. I don't know when and which happened, it's more circumstance driven as well.

@Necroskull388 9 лет назад

AnonnymouZ Literally any label can do that. Saying that religion is wrong because some people used it to justify atrocities is the same as rejecting every belief system ever, including capitalism, liberalism, and atheism.

@AnonnymouZ 9 лет назад

Dagda Mor Agreed on the label comment, however, the point is, if no religious bullshit was made up we would probably avoid stupid events like crusades, jihads and holocausts. What i'm saying is, we would be killing each other for other reasons instead. More honest ones like: -those people have a different skin color!- etc. But most importantly, we would have a chance to react accordingly. our sense of morality would be tested more honestly than any provided by "religious reasons."

@Clone007Productions 9 лет назад

AnonnymouZ So we'd have to remove whole belief systems, take away anyone's hope for a possible afterlife to meet their loved ones again, so we can test our sense of morality? As you said, we would be killing each other for other reasons, you can even see the morality of the 'people guided by God'; they will kill others for themselves to survive, they will kill innocent, possibly richer people for personal gain/wealth. If no 'religious bullshit' was made up, the printing press would have advanced somewhat slower and we wouldn't even have the great wonders of the world (Egyptian/Mayan pyramids, Christ The Redeemer, etc)

@SocksMacguffin 8 лет назад

I really connect on a spiritual level with that turnip picking peasant.

@Crick1952 8 лет назад

true dat

@Isildun9 6 лет назад

It was Baldrick

@AndreTheSalty 6 лет назад

Me too. Thats how i'm like whenever there is a new trend.

@MrBeef-sh3lc 6 лет назад

"Oh well. More food for me!"

@joshe9409 6 лет назад

It was walpole

@mr.coffee6242 5 лет назад

Walter sans avoir Literally translates to: Walter that owns nothing Or Walter the destitute. Yeah ! A destitute man leading piss poor, destitute peasants.... thats a genius plan 😂

@umerraja5715 4 года назад

I'm really starting to like this channel. The best thing about this channel is they are not extremely bias or pushing worldly agendas and are historically very accurate for the most part. Unlike @theinfographic show and some other YT channels they try to stick to historical facts and records as much as possible.

@extrahistory 9 лет назад

When the Pope promises absolution for ANYONE who joins the crusade, things quickly get out of hand. #ExtraHistory

@Jedibob5 9 лет назад

notoriouswhitemoth "...and a few impatient a-holes going Leeroy Jenkins." That is the best possible description that could ever have been given to this. Excellent job.

@pkmn1260 9 лет назад

notoriouswhitemoth yup, yeah, it annoys me too when people start spouting hate against religion and try and bring the crusades as an example.

@wiskeeamazingdancer4964 9 лет назад

notoriouswhitemoth Just like what we see with Islam today. Spirituality is never the problem. Institutional religion is. Power corrupts and so forth.

@MatthiasPendragon 9 лет назад

notoriouswhitemoth Exactly. The church, when put in a position of power, becomes just as corrupt as anyone else. It saddens em to no end to see how many times in history Christians have committed atrocities in the "name of God" when the bible constantly teaches us to live in peace and gives no justifications for this kind of madness.

@axelkusanagi4139 9 лет назад

History is probably the most important subject. What a pack of frothing dumbasses. Good thing nothing like that happens anymore...(turns on news) I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

@Georgus_420 7 лет назад

One does not simply siege a Hungarian castle and expect to win

@Georgus_420 7 лет назад

Michael Knapman i dont get it

@Georgus_420 7 лет назад

Michael Knapman thats polish anyways

@EggGaming105 7 лет назад

Thisismyname104 The Mongols

@911Maci 6 лет назад

the ottoman and the golden horde (mongols) were tribal unions hungary is just a country not entire europe gathered under a religion

@HurricaneHunter03 6 лет назад

Said no EU4 player ever

@christopherseton-smith7404 4 года назад

I vaguely remember having to deal with this in a Medieval History A-level a lifetime ago, but it wasn't until listening to this fine narration, that it occurred to me just how stage managed Urban's acclaimation now sounds. Additionally Peter the Hermit sounds a real arch manipulator

@user-cd4bx6uq1y Год назад

This channel actually has all the best topics

@AlvoriaGPM 9 лет назад

Whenever I see a series on the crusades, or really any event that deals with a religious group doing something, I'm always very afraid that people will come away from watching it with the message that "religion = evil" rather than the proper one of "ambitious people without much value for human life = evil". To that end, I'm really glad that you're taking the time to discuss the motivations of the groups and people involved in this horrible event; making sure to put the responsibility for both the good and ill on the people involved rather than on the faiths they claim to be fighting for.

@tummywubs5071 6 лет назад

I know I am late to the party but yup. Its great to see that. Its so damn easy to just blame something when in reality their are hundreds of factors what cause something. Blaming one basic thing is naïve and ill sighted.

@highlandcheesestick8402 2 года назад

Yeah. A lot of people seem to think of the crusades as "Christians dont like that Muslims own the land. Muslims dont like that Christians own the land" when it's much more than that. If religion was the only cause, then the crusades would have happened years ago, but instead Christians made a peace treaty with the Rashidun Caliph.

@Duke_of_Lorraine 9 лет назад

And on the paper the First Crusade looked like an easy success... Now I can't even imagine what happened during the Fourth, please make it after this series :D

@vegetazzo 9 лет назад

***** The people's crusade is usually considered separated from the first crusade as it wasn't an official one lead by a king. Think of it more like a 0th Crusade. The first crusade was indeed a success though.

@Necroskull388 9 лет назад

***** Spoiler alert: The fourth crusade is one of the main contributing factors to the final death of Byzantine Rome and the conquest of her lands by Muslim Turks. Which is precisely the opposite of what the first crusaders set out to do.

@lewissosa5769 9 лет назад

***** spoiler alert in the 4th crusade the crusaders sack constatinople itself, just because they were stuck in there with nothing to do

@Ennio444 9 лет назад

***** The First Crusade looked like suicide. The fact that it was a success still creates debate among historians, since it's one of those astonishing occurences of History, those events so unlikely that some historians even rely on revisionism in order to explain what seems unexplicable. Keep in mind that the First Crusade is the only one ever to succeed by force of arms. The Sixth succeeded but it was because its leader, Emperor Frederick II, was best buds with the Sultan, Al-Kamil (Salahaddin's brother) and they agreed on the outcome of the Crusade (which was mostly a stunt to boost Fred II's populatiry, since he's widely considered an atheist, even at his time he was accused of being godless). As for the Fourth one... it was a confused crusade. Led by people who were soon bankrupt and had to "default" the Crusade to their bankers, the Republic of Venice... they sacked and conquered a couple of Christian ports the Venetians wanted and then they helped a Byzantine prince so that their rear would be covered when they attacked the Muslims,. Having a firendly Emperor in Constantinople was considered important. When said Emperor was killed by the Byzantine population, the Crusaders first sacked the city and then considered that the Greeks would never be their friends again, so they created a Latin Empire in order to keep their Crusade going... which never happened, because two or three years later the Tzar of Bulgaria, Kalojan, went down from Tarnovo and beat down the main army of the new Latin Emperor, captured him and most of his knights, killed the King of Thessalonica (Bonifacio de Monferrato, the brains of the Crusade) and ended, so to speak, the might of the crusaders in Greece for good. They would never expand again. Sorry for the wall of text.

@Insomnia153 9 лет назад

Ennio444 I guess the success of the First Crusade could mainly be explained with the lack of a coordinated defense by the muslim leaders, who were busy feuding among themselves until Saladin started uniting them. At least that's how I remember reading it.

@timnergaard3831 6 лет назад

this was a brilliant episode! really well done. keep em comin!

@rubenpompilio3142 2 года назад

This is slighty historicaly inacurate. The Pope never actually said going on a crusade would get you a free ticket into heaven. He said that crusaders would recieve remission of penance, not remission of sin.

@aaronpaul9188 8 лет назад

Arab muslims had ruled jerusalem for hundreds of years, but the turks had only recently taken the levant, in 1073. christian writings largely cease suddenly around this time, which historically does suggest persecution. Also, among mulsim and jewish sources, there is plenty of evidence of persecutions by the turks of the people of the Levant, which was still majority christian at this time. I am not saying that this is the only factor in the crusades, but its sill to dismiss it off hand.

@aaronpaul9188 8 лет назад

***** Not really actually. As I mentioned, the levant had recently changed hands from the arabs to the turks with a new dynasty in power. The arabs for much of the time since the conquest did not try to change much of anything. Thanks to the Jizya tax it was beneficial to allowed the christians to keep their language, culture and religion in order to collect these taxes. It was not until after the reconquest of the levant from the crusaders that the arabs decided to arabize the population.

@aaronpaul9188 8 лет назад

***** Also most of those were greek and local languages rather than latin.

@aaronpaul9188 8 лет назад

***** I am also dyslexic, so it would be hypocritical of me to judge. If any errors make me misunderstand your intent, then I will simply ask for a clarification. "They" had not been ruling the levant since the 600s. Its true that the Byzantines had lost the Levant and Jerusalem in the 600s, They were taken by Abu Bakr, and the Rashidun Caliphs. Then it passed to a series of ruling dynasties. By the time of the Crusades, the Seljuk Turks were battling the Fatimid Dynasty for jerusalem, which changed hands several times. There are ample reports of christian pilgrims being attacked by various raiding parties. Neither dynasty was strong enough to guarantee christian safety even if they wanted to. Arab and islamic records have a history of white washing and removing any blame or responsibility. A Fatimid Caliph destroyed the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in 1009, for example which was likely a major contributor to the crusades. My point is that while muslims ruled the levant since the 600s, it was not one group that controlled it, and christians were facing persecutions in the land. They were small, eratic, disorganized, and lots of people lacked security at the time, but the pope only cared about the christians. Many historians and scholars noted that the arabs after the first invasions ruled over christians jews and other groups in the land. Arabs in the levant were governors and garrisons ruling over the mostly greek and christian populations. The notion that people simply changed all of their culture without coercion is silly IMHO. Especially since many of those greek christians are still in the area today.

@aaronpaul9188 7 лет назад

***** Read the writings of Michael the Syrian, a contemporary of the time. Moshe Gil writes that the Seljuk conquest was a time of "slaughter and vandalism, of economic hardship, and the uprooting of populations" And sorry, but the armenian genocide did in fact occur. I am sorry their death and suffering makes the turks look bad, but that doesnt mean it didnt happen.

@aaronpaul9188 7 лет назад

***** Are you referring to me, or Serhat?

@AegixDrakan 9 лет назад

That squirrel at 5:05. XD He's looking at the guy like "No, I will NOT give you my flippin' acorn. What the heck is wrong with you human people?"

@AegixDrakan 9 лет назад

Aegix Drakan Also, that one smart dude with the turnip going "SRSLY?"... XD The artist had fun with this.

@HxH2011DRA 9 лет назад

IKR

@HeatherMcNabb 9 лет назад

Aegix Drakan :)

@codeblood2000 3 года назад

It's very interesting the matter how many videos I watch on the history of the first Crusades everyone seems to have a different view of it... you're no exception Extra Credit.

@rampantsarcasm2220 5 лет назад

While these series are always interesting, why does EC never cite it's sources? I kinda wanted to go do some more reading myself

@luska5522 4 года назад

They cite in their Lies episodes

@restreven4455 4 года назад

The format seems to be you try to disprove what they say by doing the research yourself. I think.

@luska5522 4 года назад

@@restreven4455 Yeah

@wnd9434 4 года назад

Easy, Just read wikipedia. Its all there

@Killadog1980 9 лет назад

History is like a reality TV show, and it never ends! I love it.

@travishopkins4124 9 лет назад

Some say the crusades continue to this very day, battles being waged across RU-vid comments sections daily and hourly with sharp tongues and Bible quotes.

@lewissosa5769 9 лет назад

Travis Hopkins that comment just made my day xD

@nerdseternal1138 9 лет назад

Travis Hopkins and like the crusades it accomplishes nothing save a big bloody mess that makes everyone involved look bad

@travishopkins4124 9 лет назад

+Nerds Eternal Precisely.

@travishopkins4124 9 лет назад

bindochnetsoblöd undgebmeinennamenan Sarcasm doesn't translate well I guess. I'm sorry if I offended you, I was just making a little joke about how people get super angry in the RU-vid comments section and post long comments about things that don't exist.

@felixleidinger1670 9 лет назад

Travis Hopkins Im not offended. Youre right, I but I usually get a bit carried away with my commenting, I guess that proofs your point anyway.

@MrMarinus18 6 лет назад

I'm still hoping for future videos on the crusades. Mostly the second and third ones. I think it would be best to make them 1 series as one was very heavily influenced by the other and they happened practically back to back.

@anhbui-bc4ew 5 лет назад

1:18 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the Seljuk Turks, AHHH said the Byzantine empire

@abdullahalmehza8345 4 года назад

Is that a crash course reference?!🤔

@anhbui-bc4ew 4 года назад

Abdullah Al Mehza Bill wurts reference

@elcamp0 9 лет назад

Man, I have to say, you guys really do deliver on making history fun. I really never took the time to learn much at all about the stories you cover, but I am definitely hooked on these series.

@MT5647 9 лет назад

Woah, an american who's actually capable of pronouncing german words? Respect!

@jmlkinc 9 лет назад

MT5647 Well, technically he's Canadian.

@username65585 9 лет назад

jmlkinc North American

@Postalpacifist 9 лет назад

MT5647 I know right? I always cringe in situations like in Witcher where they mispronounce clearly Russian-like or polish names so often it seems as if it's no purpose.

@TheDrunkenHetzer 9 лет назад

I'd assume it's because he's done a lot of research on this topic, and heard the names pronounced quite a few times. I'm a fan of German history, and I'm sure my pronunciation of German words has gotten better over time, although it's not amazing.

@MT5647 9 лет назад

Seth Cox Yeah, it just takes a bit of practice.

@jonathanpowell613 5 лет назад

"How do they respond? By pillaging the countryside!" Jeez, I hope this doesn't become a habit! Talk about brutal!

@mariannecristy_ 2 месяца назад

why is the animation taking me out HSHSAH thank u for this!! God bless you

@afrothekobold 8 лет назад

this is probably my favorite Extra History series. Despite the...hundreds of thousands of deaths, this just gets silly at points.

@karlbushtheII 8 лет назад

You like Islamic propaganda?

@afrothekobold 8 лет назад

karlbushtheII What?

@karlbushtheII 8 лет назад

afroblademaster This video, it was nothing but pro Islamic propaganda.

@afrothekobold 8 лет назад

karlbushtheII I don't see how you came to that conclusion, considering this is a history video series, teaching about the first Crusade, where a bunch of Christians and Catholics went to go take Jerusalem FROM the Islamic people, and won in the end.

@karlbushtheII 8 лет назад

afroblademaster Take back Jerusalem.

@CuleChick11 9 лет назад

"I've done horrible things and killed people. I know how I'll get into heaven; I'll more more horrible things and kill some more people!"- Great logic there. Face/palm.

@edwardjucao 9 лет назад

Cule Chick its the middle ages, what did u expect? "LETS ALL BE PEACFULL AND STUDY BACTERIA!" *face palm*

@superdark336 9 лет назад

Cule Chick the church earned money by selling people literal tickets to heaven. AND PEASENTS BOUGHT THAT.

@AegixDrakan 9 лет назад

Superdark33 And that's exactly why I have no trust in organized religion. -_-

@Funebreuh 9 лет назад

Aegix Drakan This was a thousand years ago. We don't do that anymore.

@Lalle524 9 лет назад

Funebreuh now we stay in our churches and marry couples

@nebmis 5 лет назад

girls locker room : eeew i hate PE boys locker room :

@DragoniteSpam 5 лет назад

I could not think of a more perfect way to describe the state of my locker room in school.

@nebmis 5 лет назад

@@DragoniteSpam Same

@tylernelson4901 5 лет назад

Death Bone uh what?

@nebmis 5 лет назад

@@doopboop8359 are you ok?

@nebmis 4 года назад

@@doopboop8359 ok?

@Aannan 5 лет назад

Extra History is the BEST! You guys rock.

@PlebNC 9 лет назад

I can't wait until we get to the last crusade and Indiana Jones shows up.

@Insomniac2969 9 лет назад

Been a huge fan of Extra History so far, looking forward to more of the first crusade and the rest.

@ninetails8471 4 года назад

Wow the animation style has really improved. That's cool to see.

@FlashPointHx 6 лет назад

Lovely rendition on the First Crusade. It is amazing that this disorganized mob - including the later Princes - who lacked central leadership and logistics; managed to get so lucky and take Jerusalem.

@boinkohh8394 9 лет назад

Just wanted to say I enjoy your history videos; They help pass the time, keep doing what you doing.

@KelsomaticPDX 9 лет назад

So excited about this series! I've always wanted to know more about the crusades and there really isn't another place I'd rather learn about it from. :D

@exhaustedbaking 4 года назад

Got to love the irony of trying to earn your way into Heaven by guaranteeing your place in Hell.

@pros4206 5 лет назад

5:54 deja vu i've seen this before ♪

@monsouranda2822 6 лет назад

I really want a full version of this in one video. Buts still great job. You got a new subscriber

@texaschizophrenic 9 лет назад

I freaking love these episodes. Please keep them up!

@sillypinklaffytaffysplt8655 3 года назад

This was helpful and the crusades were fun to learn about!

@jejeakle 5 лет назад

Ok, I'm subscribed after a few of these awesome vids

@CrusaderAmerica 9 лет назад

You did a pretty good job and thank you sooo much for mentioning the fact that the Catholic Church stood in opposition to the "crusader" bandits. I can't tell you how many times people try to claim that the Catholic Church was directly responsible for the jewish deaths. However i would like to add that there was some other justifications for choosing to attack the Muslim Empire. They still were invading and conquering Christian lands in the Mediterranean, in the Byzantine Empire, and in Christian Spain within 100 years before first Crusade. As Christendom was losing territory after territory over the centuries it was high time that Christian Europe mounted a counter offensive of some kind.

@VintageLJ 9 лет назад

John Bohler I agree, I'm not sure if it is the 1st crusade, but a New Sultan took over the Muslim empire and began attacking Pilgrims, which led to the formation of the Knights Templar as a protective force. Edit: Woops I actually made a bit of a mistake. It wasn't the Muslim empire, it was the Turks who had been attempting to invade Asia Minor.

@Heliophanus 9 лет назад

John Bohler Although they may have opposed the banditry, the Catholic Church and the Popes had incited people into violence against Jews for centuries. Which made them an easy target to pick on. Just because there were couple of people -- even Bishops -- who were against it, doesn't chance the fact that the Church as a whole had wanted the Jews dead or gone for a long time.

@CrusaderAmerica 9 лет назад

Yeaaah, care to point to examples of that? The Crusader Bandits are the only examples people can seem to point to and Extra History blew that myth to smithereens quite nicely here. lol

@Knoloaify 9 лет назад

VintageLJ Yeah, a huge point that they missed is that the Turks of that time weren't as nice as the other muslims. They kicked the christians out of Jerusalem and forbid pilgrims from entering the city, there's also tales of massacres that might have happened. So yeah, even beyond his personal interests, Urbain II had a pretty good reason to call for a crusade. However, the big problem was that the Fatimid took back Jerusalem right after Urbain II called for a crusade. But informations network weren't really effective back then, and it's not like anyone could have stopped the crusade at this point. Yeah, it was a mess.

@farmerboy916 9 лет назад

Or, you could argue that it wasn't at all about mounting a "counter offensive," and was primarily a power play.A masterful one at that; by creating the idea and calling the crusade the pope gave himself legitimacy, got rid of his anti-pope troubles, completely dominated his secular rivals, temporarily solved the HRE problem, removed their powerbase, fix the church's income, move people toward "correct" doctrines, quelled popular fears about violence and having too many men who did it by moving it all somewhere else, move forward the idea of faith being involved in combat (albeit in a different way than the peace and truth of god movements), allowed the peasants and nobility to interact more with the faith and getting loyalty that way, possibly bringing the byzantines back into the fold, allowed a bunch of second sons to have an opportunity to gain power elsewhere, and many more. You have to remember that this pope was a micromanager, extremely busy, very intelligent, and accomplished damn near everything he set out to do. I'm sure he thought about most of these at the time. The medievalists I've heard talk about the crusade haven't even mentioned the concept you bring up as being one thought about.

@AndrewMeyer 9 лет назад

Man, watching this just made me realize how much I've already learned about medieval europe by reading the 1632 series. Pretty great series.

@rebel3202 4 года назад

This channels intro is the best. Nice and simple

@patrickv4062 5 лет назад

Ah yes, the good ol days

@android18hater56 5 лет назад

Spare coochie?

@camiloroldan1292 9 лет назад

Why internet is better than TV? Channels like this is why.

@aaronadams9129 9 лет назад

Was very good. I just wish they had mentioned that 2/3 thirds of the Christian world had been conquered since the coming of Mohammad. The fact that Muslims where in Spain and launching raids into France was also a large factor.

@principetnomusic 9 лет назад

Aaron Adams You mean Mesopotamia and Egypt?

@willsinger3 9 лет назад

Imperios no by then Spain was kinda disputed territory

@principetnomusic 9 лет назад

willsinger3 Moorish Spain by itself isn't 1/3 of the Christendom.

@neverable2 9 лет назад

Imperios He means North Africa and the better parts of Spain as 1/3. To be honest though most Europeans wouldn't care about Africa. Pillaging France however isn't really all that important since border disputes and raids like that were common absolutely everywhere.

@MrDarthBaker 9 лет назад

Aaron Adams Yeah it kind of annoys me how that part is glossed over. Why do you think the Christian population believed these stories os readily? Because the Moorish Muslims had gone as far as Tours in the late 400s. Sure, that was hundreds of years ago, but people nowadays are still haunted by ghosts hundreds of years old (the "Crusades", to name one).

@mackenziecampbell2411 6 лет назад

thanks for this video it really helped me!!!

@krugersavage6347 4 года назад

21st century view of the Crusades

@Ideabot_69 9 лет назад

Ahh the crusades, reminds me of a game of Medieval 2: Total War I played. Playing as England, I had just finished off the Scottish when the pope called a crusade. I, of course, decided to go. I sent my king, along with a sizable group of soldiers by boat to Jerusalem. I even recruited a fair amount of mercenaries. However, my king decided that "halfway to Jerusalem" was the perfect place to just die, which left the army without a leader. Then they just stopped being my army.

@CoconutsLord 9 лет назад

Shinigami192837 once when i played as portugal, the pope called a crusade for jerusalem and demanded i send my king there, so i took my king, raised some mercs and joined the crusades, i was planning to go through france and italy raising men and then go to jerusalem by boat, so i set forward from toledo to venice. the journey was going just as planned, but the pope had other plans, and so i found my king excommunicated by the pope while carrying out the pope's will in the middle of hostile milanese territory, and to make matters worse my WHOLE ARMY deserted me on the next turn. tl;dr my king got excommunicated while on crusade

@thekaiseriswiser4451 9 лет назад

My HRE Kaiser died on the way back after taking the damn city, and shortly gave it away, and that is why I call crusades on Mongolia.

@connorfirth3963 9 лет назад

Could you do a short episode on character movement speed? In every game there are a lot of tricks that must be employed to make movement, FoV, and just general scale feel natural. Yet, this can backfire in certain ways, especially in multiplayer, and there seems to be no perfect answer to this problem.

@soyusmaximus7176 4 года назад

Minor correction: as the crusades happened prior to the Columbian exchange, Europeans didn't farm pumpkins.

@thelunaticcultist5157 5 лет назад

1:17 It’s a bird it’s a plane *_Its the Seljuq Turks_*

@OfficialManGo 6 лет назад

Found out that one of my Ancestors Odon I de la Hamaide was part of the First Crusade, he marched all the way till Jerusalem :D

@young-blk-investor1059 5 лет назад

Scumbag

@horesfan400 8 лет назад

imagine if they had Pokemon GO in those days the only reason they'll go to Jerusalem is to catch all the pokemon

@apples6684 8 лет назад

yeah, true. that's the only reason I want to go to lots of places, to catch all the pokemon

@thoughtfulpug1333 6 лет назад

Carter Coullard Same

@GodRabbit90 6 лет назад

I live in Jerusalem, and I can tell you that we have shit pokemon here. Not worth the crusade

@JitenderKumar-rp4lu 5 лет назад

Dor Shlush Still I am coming . Be prepared. 😈😈😈

@JacobMcDaid 5 лет назад

lol, edgy boi, edgy edgy boi

@unchartedsteppes7138 5 лет назад

This gave me a topic for my Midterm three years ago so I just wanted to say thanks.

@faithboy12 5 лет назад

Damn so Crusade was like someone now saying "I'm going on Spring Break!" Cool

@FreedomR115 8 лет назад

Tiny nitpick ahead. Seeing potatoes and pumpkins in some of the illustrations. Those wouldn't exist in Europe for another 500 years.

@theappc9043 5 лет назад

I blame Walpole..

@pragmat1k 9 лет назад

I always get giddy when these videos get released.

@eyeamnotellingu8061 6 лет назад

Best part about some of these videos is I use them for revision for my University Exams.

@Brightp546 4 года назад

I would love to see a series over the second crusade

@VaeSapiens 9 лет назад

Addendum: To anyone wondering Alexios Komnenos was actually a very good Emperor. He faced almost impossible odds and overcame them, fighting Turks, Pechenegs, Normans and even on his deathbed he took his last victory against the Seljuk Turks, starting a period called the "Komnenian Restoration" (for more details look to his biography written by his daughter - Anna - yep, a woman wrote a book in the 11th century). His descendants almost retook whole of Anatolia. And everything was going well....until Angelids took over and the 4th Crusade hapenned...

@VaeSapiens 9 лет назад

***** I hope so. Many people never heard of him.

@hourai-san3829 3 года назад

Sans Avoir means "without having" gotta love "Walter Without Having".

@amitabhakusari2304 6 лет назад

Please, please, make the 2nd part of the series, I am just done reading up on this one, and trying to not get spoilers, inspite of the very old episode.

@riotants4018 6 лет назад

The intro music is legendary

@adamtozser4956 9 лет назад

7:38 fun fact, Hungarians actually defended cities with boiling hot fresh soup. Don't you laugh , it worked like a charm

@amak3 9 лет назад

Adam Tozser Delicious

@amak3 9 лет назад

Adam Tozser I guess Hungarians weren't so Hungary at the time.

@mgplayzxd3062 6 месяцев назад

Buh duh tish 🥁

@TurlasThe6 9 лет назад

Oh man, one of my favorite periods in history to learn about and discuss. It has everything...epic battles, genocide, religious fervor, propaganda wars, political intrigue...the Crusades is THE time for any medieval scholor to really get into some of the good dirt of history. Really looking forward to this series! Great start, too. :)