The History of the Fourth Crusade 

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Dear Flashpoint History, pls can you make some videos about the history in England and Western Europe during the Crusades? Robin Hood and Richard the Lionhearted being imprisoned and ransomed and how events like these effected the Crusades and Europe’s potential ability to conquer the Middle East. Ty. Much love.

@@flashgordon6670 Robin Hood would make an interesting doc I think

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Very good documentary thank you for this.

Before the climax. You can see why it was in their own interest to control the trading routes and knock out, loot, sack Constantinopla and Byzantines as trade competitors. Venetian power increases after the fall of Constantinopla.

Be strong! Let me know how it works out

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The truth sooner or later comes out. And the world seems different.

Well, crying is part of the way of the world. At least you have historic city of athens and turks didn't treat you as badly as you often cry about. You were treated much better by a monarchy that what congo or india or south africa were treated by "modern constitutional monarchies". In fact, greeks were forced to enroll in elite turkish forces, doesn't sound that bad of a treatment. Imagine being sold on ships?

@@saimbhat6243 “forced to enlist” ..I’m assuming you’re referring to janissarys. They were actually children TAKEN from Christian families at a young enough age they often didn’t realize that they were being sent to fight and kill their own ppl. Also Rape was a written tactic commanded for Turkish military over the occupied Greeks and Serbs in an attempt to breed us out of existence. Men who fought back or took revenge for their women being raped were often castrated but always had their eyes gouged out and hands cut off. So that they not only couldn’t hold a weapon and fight again but they couldn’t feed themselves or even wipe their own ass… yeah “not as bad” …we just stayed united instead of fighting each other

It was made safer still as it was done by men wearing the cross.

@@FlashPointHx Please extend this to the downfall of 1453.

@@jasonpalacios1363 will do ;)

@@FlashPointHx what do you mean ? 🤔

«Απασών γλωσσών το ελληνικόν υπέρκειται γένος». «Πάσα τοίνυν φιλοσοφία και γνώσις Ελλήνων εύρεμα... Συ δε, ω Ιταλέ, τίνος ένεκεν εγκαυχά;» (From all the languages the Hellenic is superior. You Italian, what reason do you have you to boast?) Theodore II Laskaris Empreror of Nicea. The fourth crusade and the anti-latin hate was the trigger that led to the Hellenic revival of the 13th century. The ERE was not the same after that.

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I just wanted to post exactly the same :) outstanding quality of content and style of presentation.

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When I read that tidbit I was equally impressed.

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Where the eff are ya flying to?

Don't crash.

Thank you!

From another viewpoint, it was also the stupidest crusade unless you were the Doge. From this point on Venetian dominance of the Mediterranean grew to its greatest height. The Turks just had to pick up the pieces after they overcame their own problems of divisiveness. take care rwmccoy

@@robertmccoy9323 In the end the Ottomans would grow to superpower status and Venice would become the next major target

But the Ottomans were not part of the 4th crusade that so weakened the Byzantine empire. At this point of history they weren't even the small potentate led by Osman I.@@FlashPointHx

@@robertmccoy9323 he meant that the venetians were the reason for the 4th crusade and because of that the ottoman grow strong and attacked venice and thus the downfall of venice after the venetian- ottoman wars. so the venetians kind bite themselves in the butt

My pleasure! really happy that you enjoyed this!

Wonderful! That makes me so happy that my work has influenced another to get into history!

Appreciate it! This one took me awhile to do

Yea. If it was just that simple. If it wasn't for the so called Christians, the world would be at peace. You can just go back a year before them, or thousands, to know that wasn't true.

This really would make for an epic movie - I really liked Ridley Scott's work with Kingdom of Heaven - even if it wasn't completely accurate

@@FlashPointHx I have always wanted to watch that movie, just haven't had time. Watching you videos are amazing. Details you don't get anywhere else.

In case you don't know of it, there is a director's edition of Kingdom of Heaven that is a legit 9/10 level film. The theater version was not a complete film, unfortunately, and I'd recommend anybody reading this to see that film as intended.

I want to see a Ridley Scott movie featuring flashpoint's hypothetical meeting of Hannibal and Archimedes 😁.

Much appreciated!

Appreciate it ! Happy that you liked this video

Hahaha - kinda is

Nope; historia civilis.

@@aristophanesghost3839 ha the only history channel that doesn't have boxing on RU-vid is jack Rackham history and he just uses drawn puppets, it's really good.

hahaha - Appreciated as always

hahaha - well Venice was like any other civilization that sought to exploit others for its own gain - perhaps they just did it to an extreme

Stay home, too many tourists now. They don’t want your business anyway.

this made me laugh out loud (having enjoyed the video already 👍)

@SeaLisa lol, because they have such great income alternatives other than tourism...NOT!!!

​​​@@captnwinklewell yes... Veneto its One of the most industrialized parts of Italy so.... Venice its not Calabria. Northern Italy produce. And much. It's an industrial center, the inhabitants of veneto are Rich, almost all are landowners in the countryside. So....yes, they have others income. Veneto its not Calabria or puglia where without turism they almost starve. The inhabitants of Venice city hate tourists. Those Who love tourists are the owners of restaurants, souvenirs shops, and others things, it's called tourists trap in italian. They are made ad hoc to steal Money from you. So, stay at home. Venice Will have less pollution and disorder. These vultures that eat with tourists trap Will cry. And you Will not loose your Money. Btw It was 50 years ago that veneto was poor (other parts of northern Italy are industrialized by 130 years, veneto instead remained poor for much time, but it's from at least 30-40 years that its one of the most rich industrialized parts of Italy capable of deal with austria....). So.... They can avoid tourists in Extreme cases like venice

Happy you liked my video so much Irene !

I take it you liked that video?

@@FlashPointHx yes i did ❤❤

I wonder if they thought that this might be the real beginning of the end - or perhaps they had gotten so used to their leaders failing them that they didn’t care

Yeah this one took me awhile

Yes Sir!

Great suggestion! But for now the next stop is the Reconquista ;)

@@FlashPointHx again?

@@evergreatest3316 Need to go back and finish it

Thank you so much 😀 This took a lot to make

It was a battle Royale with only the strongest surviving

@@FlashPointHx are you going to cover that? Because I cannot wait if you are

@@dennismarquez7354 Yes- but first its time to complete the reconquista

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Humans have that duality and the choice to be good or bad. Sometimes I think you are right - we. are doomed to destroy ourselves, yet other times I'm blown away by the sense of humanity that is shown when tragedy occurs

Thank you! Will do!

This did take awhile to do - happy that you like it Marshall. Yes this really is a lesson in that the best intentions can go horribly wrong

Thanks so much Junta !

hahahah - I'm happy that you're happy =)

hahaha - they never got to the holy land!

Yeah that feudal system isn't exactly cohesive

Any time!

Thanks!

Thank you!!

I sometimes feel that catastrophe is what is needed for social evolution to occur. That said, we now live the most peaceful time the world has ever known (I know it seems counter intuitive).

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It was a very sad state of affairs. The Latin empire had no idea how to run the state. It became desperately fragmented and impoverished. They basically sold off anything that wasn’t nailed down to make money. By 1261 the Eastern Romans retook their capital. However by then it was a shadow of its former glory. From that point onwards it was a death spiral. What’s truly astounding is that it lasted til 1453. Especially with the emerging superpower of the Ottomans that had literally surrounded them.

@@FlashPointHx Thank you :) Didn't know it was the latins who sold off everything. Does JJ Philips talk about it in his book?

@@laMoria jj norwich does - especially in the bigger three vol series

@@FlashPointHxthanks, will have a look. The bigger series sounds like a Game of Thrones, with thousands of pages xD

It rivaled (or exceeded) the sack of Rome, the destruction of Baghdad, or the burning of the Library of Alexandria

Very soon! Gonna have the next video out hopefully early next month

Thank you so much 😀

Thank you! Cheers!

He had a wild life of betrayal after this - eventually they locked him up in a monastery and he never got out.

The failure of the Manuel Comnenus philo frankish policy and the rise of the anti latin party was One of the main reasons for the sack of 1204. The cause that unleashed all. The Italians and the crusaders was poisoned for all a serie of reasons, and the byzantines too was poisoned against the latins. The pretender Who ask help to the crusader, was the pandora.....

😊 thank you

Gracias!

Thank you very much!

The ultimate 'LOOK THERE A SQUIRREL!!! "

You get your card stamped for every christian city you sack along the way - the fifth city you sack for free!

I installed said game last night after watching this series

Ofc. I m playing sship mod with the Kingdom of Jerusalem. I Always sack cyprus and others byzantine cities, they are my treasury 😂❤

Thanks!

hahaha - Happy that you liked that

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you!

Appreciate that Darren - happy that you liked my content

@@FlashPointHx When I am great, I want you to narrate my life.

@@darren5597 Deal =)

For sure

Yaaaass - - was waiting for the three thumbs up Henkster

Oh yeah! =)

Let me know what you think!

Thank you so much Matt!

No thank you

Welcome

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Talk about venture capitalism

Why can't Arabs and their converts, they created this mess.

That nature abhors a vacuum - when a country is weak it will be preyed upon. Russia is going to prosecute this war to a very bloody end. Putin would let his own country go down the economic tube before he would lose face.

@@FlashPointHx indeed. I have no doubt now who are the “crusaders”, who is Venice” and who is the young prince. Who represents the Byzantines you can guess. Im not sure who will be the new Baldwin of Flanders though. The Bear is against the wall like John Mersheimer puts it. Excellent work sir. I follow Dan Carlins podcasts and your narrative is excellent.

Laskaris forget that the eastern Roman empire was made by Rome. That Constantine, belisarius, and justinian was latin speakers, and romans, and that emperor like theodosius and justinian even smashed what did remain of hellenic traditions closing the schools of Athens and forbidding the hellenic religion. As in Italy, traditional Roman religion was forbidden too time before. Was they maybe ashamed by the latin Roman origin of their state? I don't think. Laskaris words was only a way to Attack the venetians. Politics often instrumentalize history. Anyway....i really don't understand these stupid bicker. Italian and greeks are relatives. (Also the byzantines devastated Italy ending literally Roman civilization in Italy in the gothic war, with the results that Italy was depopulated, devastated, and desolated for Centuries, and subject to foreign invasions for Centuries, justinian turned Italy literally from a indipendent Power to a Battlefield for foreign peoples, without the possibility to become unite for Italy, anymore for 1000 years After the fall of the romano gothic kingdom, but the Italians don't care, instead they still to consider the greeks as Brothers. While i see many greeks literally poisoned by this story of the 4th crusade. It's 800 years ago history. I understand that in the balkans peoples fight for things of 1000 years ago too among neighbours but....take It Easy guys. It's history. Ok? No One of US was alive when justinian s tax collectors literally steal Blood from italy, and when byzantines armies devastated Italy with the goths, and no one was alive when the italians collapsed the byzantine empires in a similar way, choking his commerce and with conquer, it's only history. It's like if we bicker with a tunisine for the Roman and greek punic wars in sicily. It's absurd. (The rome and Tunisi mayors, in the 80's signed the peace treaty for the third punic wars XD AHAAH REALLY)Take It Easy Friends. Italians and greeks have the same Blood. Literally they eated the same shit for millennia. We should be Friends.

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It had to stamp out heresy both foreign and domestic

And the Jewish people, sadly.

Happy that you liked that hu-mon!

Are you implying he's missed something here? These types of videos take an incredibly long time to make, what needs "upgrading"?

@@rockstar450 since you put it that way, you should read the book as well, the capacity of your medula ablang-gada is extremely low, the length or the duration of your work does not mean, it is correct. HG Wells chronology of the Crusade is Eurocentric, but the accuracy is spot on, which many scholars would agree. Check yourself, Videos are not the same as Academia, as Academics will presuppose a video, no matter what.

I took a break to finish up the reconquista series - I'll eventually get back to this

So this is a JJ Norwich quote - it was said that the Arabs burned it during the Islamic Conquest - but I don't entirely agree that they did it

@@FlashPointHx yeah thats strange . cuz there are no prove that the arabs even encountered the library of alexandria cuz most sources says it was never mentioned again in history before the 4th or 5th centuary

@@cuzimmoody6470 Exactly - in my reading it seems that there is a bit of bias on this. I get the impression that later historians want to place the blame on the Islamic Conquest - but I could be wrong - when they got to Carthage they were said to have razed it to the ground.

the christians...their own city inhabitants.

You mean the sound?

@@FlashPointHx The song or score that starts there. :)

@@Duskofdead Its from Premiumbeats(dot)com called 'Glory and Triumph'

@@FlashPointHx Thank you sir!

As has been the case so many times in history

Love that map - been trying to get the creator to make me another for a long time

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@@FlashPointHx And the next day he fled instead of just fighting with his superior numbers. I understand a lot weren't trained soldiers, but why so little faith, my guy? Constantine XI would spit upon him.

@@HittokiriBatosai He was a weak willed idiot who never had a fight in him. The fire enraged his nobility who he felt would rise up against him. So he decided to the money and run instead - a far cry from Constantine XI

In time, that rivalry and mistrust would only grow.

The other ones were not copyright free

yup

Its called Clairvoyance by Remember the Future - from Premiumbeats(dot)com

@@FlashPointHx thanks sir!

Yeah after this they got really bad

@@FlashPointHxdo you know if i am still subbed to your patreon? You should just create a "join" button on here its easier that way but just a suggestion. Great video

@@kuwaitisnotadeployment1373 I need to learn how to do that. I know I can set up memberships - but I'm not sure how to link Patreon to the RU-vid site yet