Why The Fourth Crusade Happened
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- In this video, we, along with the channel Eastern Roman History, review the Fourth Crusade, and find out why a crusade against Christians happened.
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Happy birthday Rome!
“Conquered we conquer.”
@Tyrone Koumoundouros ....The Byzantines considered themselves to be Romans, dummy. (They even called themselves "Romaioi".)
@Tyrone Koumoundouros You doing drugs mate?
@Tyrone Koumoundouros ?
@Tyrone Koumoundouros Are you drunk budy?First you added american poltics into Roman History.And then you are assuming my mom has drugs?
The fourth crusade is basically when a side quest affects the main story
In those ages heretics and schismatics were considered as bas as infidels. Even today to the modern internet crusaders, orthodoxs are considered just a temporary ally in necessity against islam. Of course street teen thugs consider everyone except the gang leader as enemy.
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan Αnd of course in the internet age every gang has at least a techrat.
Sadly, they were not aware (or didn't care) that the byzantines were actually preventing the eastern armies to enter western europe.
Damn greediness
@@gustavoargumanis1863 Νeither today they care. They just want to get away with hate crimes.
After taking Constantinople Baldwin made a big mistake by attacking Bulgaria in 1205. The unbreakable crusaders were completely crashed and up to 10,000 elite knights perished in the near swamp. Baldwin was captured and Bulgarian Emperor Kaloyan did put him as a decoration in tower of his palace as example to other potential invaders th-cam.com/video/QlZoArfWZek/w-d-xo.html
"... but as soon as he did so, his courage left him"
what a brilliant emperor
That charge could have driven away the crusaders.
The 5000 varangians were a tough force to deal with. And he also had superior numbers.
@CyrusTheGreat who are you lol? imposter!
CyrusTheGreat quite the conundrum you 2 have fallen into
@CyrusTheGreat these are my guards!
He was what we call a wuss.
Moral of the story: never trust an italian that tells you he’s got deal you can’t refuse
Like more like dealing with the never trust a Turk.
Another Moral of the Story: Dont Genocide Italians when you're the Byzantine Emperor
I feel deeply offended
Or if you owe them something and they start sentence with my friend how long has it been since we made some money together? Or when they say I have favor to ask of you.👌 If you don't know that one watch The Irishman on Netflix
never trust italian kid who has a dream.
Really good video Justin. It is interesting to see the end result for both of our videos and I think we have done a really good job. Pleasure to work with you.
I do as well, thank you! Good working with you.
I will sub to the channel before viewing the content. Because, I love ER history but especially because I trust @Fire of Learning judgement. Thanks for both channels to make history accessible and free for the public!
Constantinopleans: "why are the crusader ships coming this way?"
*Roundabout plays in the distance*
I'm in the roundabout!!!!!!!
Don't you mean walk like an Egyptian
*constantinopolitans
@@Michael_the_Drunkard constantinopliniplitianians
@@arawn1061 LOL
The 4th crusade is very much misunderstood by most people thinking that the crusaders just attacked that empire because the pope told them so. Nothing is more further than truth, the 4th crusade was essentially a coup led by the exiled emporer with the Venetians looking to get as much coin as they could from the coup with the crusaders being bound to their debt were no more then mere pawns to the venetians.
Sam the man Right!! This was not the first time the Venetians used their own Western kin as pawns. Earlier in history the Children’s Crusade, which originated from France & Germany, resulted in the enslavement of the children in the ports of Venice. They sold the children to Muslims across the Barbary coast. The Venetians were notorious for their treachery against their own kin!
To be fair, when the sack of Constantinople happened, the Pope was bribed to lift his excommunication.
Yeah the Pope was fucking flipping his shit when he heard about it.
Xianghou Zinjiang Hu Children’s Crusade never happened
@@metrickone7546 What the fuuuuck?. Didnt know that nor the enslavement of the kids. Fucking Bastards!
I think it would be interesting to see the history of Greek southern italy, as it is rarely covered
Indeed.
You mean byzantine southern Italy or you mean Greek southern Italy before the original republican conquest?
Or both I guess actualy rereading the comment
Magna Gracia
Pope Innocent: To War!
Crusaders: To War!
Pope Innocent: You’re all excommunicated.
Crusaders: 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
*Assassin's Creed theme plays*
*gets bribed by said crusaders after they sack Christian cities* Pope innocent: Welcome back!
This was a very balanced review of the Fourth Crusade. Thank you. So often the knee jerk reaction to this event is that the crusaders were entirely at fault and that they were eager to go after Constantinople, while the Byzantines did nothing wrong. Thank you for showing that the Fourth Crusade was really a lot more complicated than many think it is.
"more complicated than many think" is the best way to approach history
Eastern Roman History brought me here, nice content here too.
Watch the video titled “the truth”
Two videos one after the other, what a blaze!
thanks for this memory of history class!
Well, the reliationship between east and west never were good. Since the fall of the western roman empire both cultures and the chruchs were separates and don't like each others. Such a shame that after the sacking many works of the past were lost. For example, a Trajan statue in a chariot, with the four horses, that are now in Venice.
If they are in Venice now they aren't lost.
Two underachieving siblings fighting over the unearned name and legacy of their long deceased parent civilization.
Half of Venice has the tag "Made in ERE"
@@blindtherapper2470 and the othet half is "made from anywhere but not Venice,we are only middle-mans".
Yeah, and with time both halves of a once glorious church separated further and further.Even their Sacred symbol is different!
Props for collabing with my boi EasternRomanHistory!
It was a pleasure.
I love your content. Please keep it going. :)
5:15 vemnetian rempumblic
Much trade,much wealth.
@@tasinal-hassan8268 The official currency of Venice is now the Dogecoin.
Much canals, such cities
much swamp. such sea lanes
I believe it would be fascinating for you to eventually make a video on Iranian history
Hey Justin,
Any plans to cover Indian Empires and Age's?
The Maurya's, Indo-Greeks and the Mughals are all very exciting topics and it would be awesome for you to cover them from a western standpoint.
The extent of Hellenism in India after Alexander's conquest is also significant.
I agree and I don't know a lot about the Indian history before the Mughals
Indians dont matter and dont make history
Great video
Thanks for this. I don't think I knew anything about the 4th Crusade before this.
I have been binging through some if you videos concerning strategists. Can you do a video about diplomats like Napleon's courtier Tallyrand.
@Mallyoo Yes, he was. That's why he is interesting.
I love your content!
The biggest own goal in Christian history.
Courtesy of the same Western/Northern Europeans currently digging their own collective graves.
And they tried later the same in the Northern Crusade.
@@anon4932 yep because the abandoned their faith in the 16th century.
@@thatchannel195 Its Karma considering yall invaded most of the rest of the world in one way or another.
OHHH MAAAY GOOOD. We need scienties man to teach us about this matter
Simply this crusade shows how greedy and selfish were the crusaders. It shows that all crusades had false claims. They did not fight to save Jerusalem; they fought to satisfy their greed and false claims
seems to me that the culprits here were the Byzantine emperors themselves, squabbling between themselves as they did before for centauries weakening the empire more and more.
As far as I know, the decline started with the Alexios family. Before that, the empire was having a good age (not as great as the time of Justinian, Narses or Belisarius, but still nice)
Eh, there’s plenty of blame to go around
@@gustavoargumanis1863 The real decline started before the Comnenos dynasty, during the Manzikert battle, when the main part of anatolia has been lost against the Seldjukid turks. Actualy, Alexios I, John II and Manuel I were good emperors who managed to defend the territory for decades.
9:27 When you forget your own password
It is so fascinating to learn about warriors and peoples who lived way modern humans
You should do a vudeo on the history if South Africa since there was a lot of rebellions wars and migrations like the Great Trek and the boer Wars there is also many othere rebellions like the Maritz Rebellion and Swellendam war of Independence.
BTW your videos are very interesting. The one I’ve enjoyed the most is what if we went into the dark ages.
Thank you for your restraint and scholarly commitment by not affixing a dog into the picture when you said "Doge". *Watches it a second time.* Must've blinked. Nevermind.
2:33 pretty sure that the church of byzantium seen that as "Rome had split the union with us and the other churches". I mean i know that the catholics and Protestants think that the orthodoxs split christianity the orthodox see it the other way around.
I just find it a such a massive shame that there was no common effort between the two Churches to re-take the former Christian Roman areas in the middle-east. And the 4th crusade was the pinidle of said lack of cooperation. And greed destroyed them all.....
It was the Pope in Rome who split his fake church from the "Orthodox" Church. The Orthodox Church is catholic but the Catholic Church is not orthodox. This video is just papist propaganda.
@@decem_sagittae or protestant propagnda. I mean they used the existence of the orthodox church and the catholic narrative about the break as a "precedent".
Romanian Székely așa este. Ai dreptate.
The Catholic church is the ACTUAL church. The OG one, started by Jesus' hand picked Capo. The others are all spin-offs.
yo austin, can you cover the history of the middle east? like, the history of Mamluk egypt, or a documentary on Saladin. And among other thing, can you cover the South East Aians, too?They're highly overlooked by other regions of the world, so it would be awesome if you would cover it.
Could you do a documentary on Denmark? By far my favorite Nordic country
poo poo
As an icelander whose lived in denmark since 2003
I can confirm why one would think denmark is the best....the weed here is super cheap and very accessible thanks to Christiania, but honestly denmark is so boring and a mess of a country its a joke
But that's the point of the nordic countries today, their all laughing stocks
Their all hilariously lost and overzealous bigots, but that is the way of the north nowadays,.... besides it don't matter anymore we won't be around for much longer.
But seriously i have not a dummer bunch then the danes
I have not met a more lost lot then the swedes
I have not met a more pathetic lot then norwegians
By far the best country in Scandinavia is the one that gets overlooked the most
The Faroese lot, again as an icelander, we used to (for shits and giggles) compare ourselves with them.....now we can't, everybody puts us to shame.....
@@bugzyhardrada3168 lol rekt
@@camrendavis6650 yeah sorry mate but Scandinavia is absolutely fucked....but it is seriously beautiful here so we got that going for us......except for denmark which is just flat and boring...hence the demand for cheap weed.... i also used to lived in ireland which was fun.....but the nuns can really pack a punch....especially while clutching the bible in the grasp like its a weapon with such ferocious vigor that it becomes almost inspirational especially when the older nuns go crazy on ya ass...... anyway Scandinavia, yeah that's fun, the Fins are bonkers.... frikkin love them
@@bugzyhardrada3168 Bro , you are from iceland and you call denamark boring. Iceland is just a cold litte rock
ah yes my favorite history-based channel
ave friend
This appeared on my home tab right beneath the latest bread boys video. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Moral of the story, as all of history. Never trust Venice or the Latins.
200,000 silver marks, submission to Catholic authority, 10,000 troops to the Holy Land, and a 500 knight garrison force.
Too soon. I'll need at least 800 more years to process this betrayal and move on.
We need to take Constantinople back!
@@LarryNathanielPhoto so what you already have is stable & well handled now?!
Very good video. I never knew much about this until I read the novel "No Moon To Pray To". I wonder how many of the Christian soldiers who did this were wracked with guilt after they realized what they had participated in.
The truth at last.
Thank you
That doge meme right at the end tho
I need like this explanation eith the fifth crusade eeww !!! Yu have just nailed it and i understood it v . Well thank you
The thing i hate the most about history of Crusade is that most of historians neglected the role of Constantinpole in the first place and pretend religions are the only cause behind it.
inferno0020 well it was religious jihad that triggered the holy war. So yes, in fact religion caused it
@@ic.xc. here comes another guy that cannot read but pretends to be historian.
@@ic.xc. What you are telling is absolulty false. Jerusalem was ruled by Moslems for 5 centuries when the first crusade occured. There was not "Jihad" at that time. The coming of the Turks is the main cause, for they hav forbidden the access to Jerusalem for pilgrims.
@@etiennemacq even though islam had not been a religion for 5 centuries at the time of the first crusade?
@@morgott13 622-1099=477
Very interesting video. There was also a sixth patriarchy - the Bulgarian, established in 918. The Bulgarian Patriarchate became the first national patriarchate in Europe, and the sixth autocephalous patriarchate after the five forming the Pentarchy - those of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople. With the elimination of the patriarchate of Constantinople by the Roman catholic crusaders, Bulgaria became for a period of time the centre of the Orthodox Christianity. The Latin - Bulgarian wars that started after the sacking of Constantinople is another interesting and yet not very known subject.
Can you do a video about the Northern Crusade against Pagans like Vikings and others
HONEY! WHERE IS MY GREEK FIRE RECIPE?
WHAT?
Archbishop of Paris Sibourg during Crimean War (France Catholic supports Turkish Islam against Orthodox Russia) say this is a crusade to defeat the Orthodox "Like all the crusades"
“Crusade against Christianity” thumbnail shows what could only be a member of the Varangian Guard WITH BACK SCABBARD!
Were Varangians still around during the fourth crusade tho?
@@mortache yes
@J. L. I assume you have some proof since they are specifically referenced in holding back the Venetian assualt during the 4th crusade?
@J. L. and the varangian guard wasn't limited to Vikings. After 1066 it was mainly composed of Anglo saxons for a period.
@J. L. yes
Five minutes on your way to reconquering the holy land and chill and he gave you this look
Lol nice
The Eastern Roman History video is not there. Where is it?
It is now.
Please please please do a full documentary on Knights, templar and of the round table. Just knight's in general.
Fire is the bane of learning. Historically speaking.
you should make a documentary on the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Please cover the Volcae
5:14 that dogge is something
excelent job as always. i would enjoy an episode focused on the muslim expansions too
Is 1204 the starting point of the creation of the modern Greek identity ?
you should do one day the crusade of the Cátaros
in my humble opinion, as a moderate Muslim, I think costantinople, or Istanbul should be granted special status in the modern day, like the vatican but under turkish protection, not that turkey would do that, but it would certainly help turkey improve its ties with Greece ad other orthodox countries, and its not like Turks are native to anatolia in the first place. Its important to say that I am an egyptian and most mediteranian Arabs tend to be more sympathetic to orthodox christianity, so there is a bias there.
What do you mean by "it's not like Turks are native in Anatolia"?
Those "Turks" you're talking about are not real Turks, but in fact mixed Turkish, Anatolian and Greek.
Even besides that: even if they were full Turks, like a 100% Turkish, even than it would be their land, because these people have ruled over it for hundreds of years. This idea that land belongs to "one people and one people only" is unrealistic. The realistic approach is that land is owned by the descendants of the conquerers of that land. That is how the world has worked, since prehistoric times. Since the age of the first human beings and even before that.
@@saraqostahterra4548 nevertheless Constantinople certainly carries more religious significance to orthodox Christians than it does to muslims, its not mecca or Jerusalem, it was just a city that was conquered from a civilized people by Muslim Turkic tribalism, Turkey as a state has consistently tried to forcefully "assimilate" Anatolia as well as other places it rules, Armenia, Kurds, Greeks, Bulgarians etc. not to mention it has anexed a part of Syria. Turkey is a nation built by war, and will continue living by war, and can only end by war.
@@youssefhany546 Constantinople doesnt hold that much of a religious value to orthodox christianity, at the very least its much outweighted by its cultural significance for both the greeks and the turks. It has been conquered 500 years ago and when it was taken byzantine empire was far from the powerful and highly developed empire it used to be and it could truly be argued that if it wasnt taken by the ottomans then it would have been taken by someone else given its significance. In a way the ottomans restored the glory of constantinople and as such I dont see any reason why the greeks would have a better claim on it than the ottomans. Not to mention the effect such a change would have on its citizens and relations between the greeks and turks is hard to predict. The conflict between the two doesnt stem from the turks owning or conquering constantinople but from all the conflicts between the two since the greeks won their independence.
Egyptian huh? It's weird how these last years we hear your government talk more about Turkey but much less about Palestine.
@@bootesvoid1275 Not your right to talk, especially since you hold far stronger economic ties with Israel than we do, You actually benefit the Zionist entity, while we just have peace with it. Turkey is also a NATO member, a de facto Israeli ally and is serving western interests in the Arab world, Neo-ottoman imperialism is equatable to Zionist imperialism, and I am aggressively against both.
It was not the only crusade against Christians. There were other crusades against the orthodox in Russia. Also , popes in the 13th and 14th centuries preached crusades against political rivals in Western Europe. Anybody who was an enemy of the papacy could be considered a valid target of crusades , not just Muslims.
Muslims, Orthodox Christians, Pagan traditionalists, etc..
7.39 église st George Haguenau
it would be nice if you mentioned Zara's modern name
Will you do history of India?
How many crusades were there?
Fun fact: there was actually a joint catholic-pagan-tengrist(so pagan)-Orthodox-islamic crusade against Orthodox too. They fucked up big time so it ended prematurely (I mean they fled the battle cuz Vitold's troops were a goddamn month late) but the fact that they got the pope to recognise it as a crusade makes me laugh real bad to this day
What is the battle called?
By the way, Barbarosa drowned in Serbia, in a foot deep stream, when he fell of his horse and was unable to stand up...
Years later, Hitler would name the invasion of USSR "operation Barbarosa", which had to be delayed due to among other things, uprising in Yugoslavia.
So, yeah...
Edit: Barbarosa drowned in Syria, not Serbia! Thanks for correcring me!
I think Barbarossa drowned in Asia minor.
You are right! I misread the source!
Barbarossa drown in Asia Minor and operation Barbarossa delayed because of the german invasion in Yugoslavia and Greece.
Funny because German tanks drowns in Russian Rasputitza, xaxaxaxa!!
F for the Byanzatines
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Romans*
F roman empire
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I Cant Imagine the Face of The Muslims when they Heard about That Cruzade...
is basically what happened
I wish there was a movie on this. Though in this movie it would be pretty hard to root for anybody
1:05 why
When you hide something so well that you can't even find it.
5:15
fourmth crumsade
Killer album too
What are they not talking about?
Two in 24 hours!!
I always wonder what the world would look like if perhaps either the Roman Empire as a whole or just the Western or Eastern Empire had continued through to modern times - like how that would have affected history if they hadn't shriveled and collapsed or been conquered... I know the end of an empire is usually the beginning of another or that one rises as one falls or remnants continue on sometimes, but I mean, a proper Roman Empire.
I guess at a cursory glance, at least if the Western Empire had survived, there would be no "Europe" as we know it and/or the European countries wouldn't exist in the same form.. Maybe the Gauls/Etc barbarian tribes would have eventually won their independence. Charlemagne and his family might have been basic foot soldiers or maybe they'd have been Roman emperors if the rules had changed - _proper_ Roman emperors - not Holy Roman emperors lol. The Vikings would have probably been conquered before they even made it to Britain.
I have a feeling the USA would still in exist in one form or another due to us being across the pond, but the Revolutionary War, if there was even still a need for it, would have been fought against Rome. North and South America were always going to be colonized from whatever nations/empires were across the Atlantic - it was just a matter of time - and these colonies were always going to have a rebellious streak, having an entire ocean between them and their parent nations. The World Wars and so many wars since the fall of Rome probably wouldn't have happened or would have been much different since Rome would have probably held an iron grip on most of the world. Maybe if Rome was still around, they'd have colonized Mars by now... Seems like it could make an interesting movie or show lol... I'm literally just staring off into space thinking about it lol.
And you know, these Empires lasted for 1000+ years - and what? Over 2000 years if you count from the founding of Rome to the final sack of Constantinople - All the Eastern Roman Empire had to do was last another few hundred years and it would have been modern times... It's just wild. All of the Catholic and Protestant countries would probably be Orthodox - depending on how much history changed in this theoretical timeline.. Before I became interested in the Eastern Empire and learned about them, I figured they had collapsed or been conquered like 1500+ years ago... I was pretty shocked to find out the Roman Empire - in the form of the Eastern Empire/The Byzantines - had lasted until 1453 - that's just 567 years... It all used to seem _so ancient_ to me... But I am totally fascinated by and obsessed with Roman history nowadays.
5:15 "I gotta A LOT of money. All I want to say is, if you guys need something, I got it covered so, just ask..."
Why many people forget that Croatia was in personal union with Hungary but did had it's own parlament and autonomy so Zara or Zadar was actually in Croatian part of this union, i mean it's not wrong completely but it's superficiall, i am from this area of the world so we did learn about this eventy very much trough school, after this sack of Zadar most inhabitans fled to what is todays Biograd and further but also returned few years later
So It wasn't just a bolt thrower album hmmm history class is making alot more sense now
7:06 so much for papal infallibility.
Imagine if lightning struck the crusaders
Last time I was this early the Byzantine empire still existed
Then you would call ot by it's true name of "The Eastern Roman Empire" or TERE
@@alexandrub8786 Sorry I do not recognize facades especially ones of an empire that did not possess the capital that it is tries to name itself after
Oh wait, that's the Holy Roman Empire, my bad 😂
@@alexandrub8786 But to be more serious, it's the same thing. The Eastern Roman Empire is the Byzantine empire as it existed in Byzantium and held no claim to Rome any longer except in name
@@kalebg.7507 justinian's campaigns to reconquer the roman lands: *I am a jome to you?*
Κι εμείς ευχαριστούμε φιλέλληνα‼️👍🏻
They just want to check frendly fire
Was the Pop excommunicating everyone how make him angry?
He could but political weight was always a thing. Simply put if he pissed on a beloved and powerful monarch... well he could regret it.
Honestly, the actual power of it was that technically speaking excommunication meant that any vows or deals one made don't have to be recognized. A king thats excommunicated would find the nobles refusing to listen to him. Or outright rebelling because the Pope declared them as illegitimate rulers.
But if you a powerful ruler like say a late medieval french monarch then having an army kill pope and hijack the papacy is gping to happen. Which it did.
Just one mistake there. It isn't the eastern Church that separated from the Western, it's the other way around. You see, in the beginning there were 5 patriarchys-Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem. It was called "Church (or sacred) pentarchy" and they were supposed to be one church, buy with collective leadership. Now Rome was supposed to be "first among the equals", but through the centuries it became self-aware that, as it isn't anymore inside the Roman/Byzantine empire it doesn't have to succumb to the rules of five. That especially became clear when the pope took upon himself to crown Charlemagne as the Roman Emperor, breaking the law that all five Churches have to approve the coronation and also the law by which there can be only one true "Empire" (empire in a concept of world leader) in the Christian world. And since that moment everything came crushing down. Rome wanted to insert bunch of new theological and politcal laws that would ensure its supremacy. Other churches didn't want that, then it all went political (as all religions in medivao times often did went) and it all led to the 3 great schisms (484-519; 850's-880's and the final one in 1054 till present). Thus, we should say that it was Rome who separated from the Eastern Churches.
P.S. Also to note that I deliberately didn't use the names "Catholic" and "Orthodox", because both of these names actually are related only to the Eastern Church. The why "Catholic" shouldn't be related to the Roman church in these times lies in etymology. You see, the word "Catholic" comes from the Greek word "καθολικός", meaning "universal". But "universal" in the times when it was invented actually meant "collective". It implies to the collection of the five original patriarchys. Since Rome stepped out of that collective, Western (or should I better say Latin) Roman Church stopped being collective. Thus we cannot really call it "Catholic" Church, although the somehow name stuck through the ages. Thus that's why I was not using the names "Catholic" and "Orthodox".
Steva Stevanović This was an amazing explanation!! Thank you for the illumination
Steva Stevanović 😤dobro je da se neko javio ko zna pisati engleski i lepo objasnio,masa ljudi to ne zna😃
Old Arch Warhammer music was a nice throwback.
This is so sad
yo justice when are you going to do a documentary on russia its a very interesting history different then any other place in europe
When you say please.
If you do PLEASE dont gloss over their history just claiming the norman theory of Rus is correct. Really try and look ar both the norman and slavic theories...
@guy c you dont consider eastern europe europe? Lol
@guy c what you mean Russia is in Europe?
@@SupremeIntentionCrew you know right
In the next episode of human history:
1) Crusades to Czech Republic vs catholic Europe
2) Crusades to Poland & Lithuana vs Teutonic Order
Sponsored by German HRE and Papacy ;)
Oh I forgot those.
Also
3) Crusade against the Russians of Novgorod
4) Crusade against the French counts of Toulouse (and the 1 million murders that followed)
There were no crusades to "Czech Republic"
@@tententononce2570 There were many Crusades. Search up for the Hussite Wars.
@@ComradeHellas Yes but Czech Republic didn't exist then. It was Kingdom of Bohemia
@@tententononce2570 I am aware?
1204: worst year of my life
"A year that will live in infamy."
You're old.
It s a Domino theory of all religious order and placement.
Don’t remind me. It makes me cry.
9:00 Kings and Generals flashbacks
I never know there's a fourth crusade
Wealthiest man Alive i think there’s seven of them
I knew it.
I think it's a little unfair to the Venetians to blame them for the debacle that was the 4th Crusade. They put aside all other business for a year and a half to build solely the Crusader ships. The Crusaders couldn't pay the agreed price. Venice was put in a bad situation. Enrico Dandolo, the blind 90+ year old doge, was a pretty smart fellow. He wasn't left with much choice but to find income somewhere else to keep the city from faltering. Also, the Venetians and the Byzantines had a longtime rivalry. The Venetians had a chance to get paid back and knock out their biggest rival in the eastern Mediterranean. Now, the sacking of the Constantinople was unforgivable. Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire was greatly weakened and finally fell to the Ottomans.
The issue with documentaries is that they never tell you the whole story, preferring the simplistic version of Bad vs. Good. As you rightly said, Venice has hugely invested in this Crusade and if the Crusaders couldn’t pay, are you allowing a whole state to go bankrupt? Certainly not! And of course Venice would have see these Crusaders in debt as an opportunity to deal with two countries that she was in conflict with: Hungary and Byzantium. Because Hungarians weren’t innocent either, they often attacked Venice either via sea or from the land. Byzantium as well had it coming by leading an aggressive anti-Venetian politic. And since trade was the sole mean of survival for Venice, what do you do? You meekly accept to be destroyed or you destroy your enemy? In real history nobody’s innocent, if you weren’t ruthless and cunning you had no chance of surviving. Mors tua vita mea - your death is my life.
@@giltineful ....Not to mention that the Venetians were still infuriated at what happened to their loved ones in 1182 (the Massacre of the Latins in Constantinople). I'm sure they had not yet forgotten in the intervening 24 years.
@@MrJm323 Exactly, thank you for adding that
Actually after Constantinople, the crusaders attacked Bulgaria (also Christian state), but lost (Battle of Adrianople (1205).
It’s a shame the Romans had so many self-destructive internal power struggles. Oh what might’ve been. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
5:16 I denounce you!
Why would you put Varangians on your thumbnail? There are so many more important players in this crusade...
Cause they look cool