In November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered a sermon that would echo across centuries. What began as a call to aid the crumbling Byzantine Empire became something far greater: a holy war to reclaim Jerusalem, unite Latin Christendom, and promise salvation to those who took the cross.
In this first episode of our Crusades series, we explore the world that led to that moment—declining empires, rising powers, and the tangled politics of East and West. This is the story of how the First Crusade began.
0:00 The Speech That Changed History
4:33 Crisis in the East
15:30 The Rise of the Seljuk Turks
20:39 The Papacy’s Opportunity
26:55 The Theology of Crusade
30:29 The People’s Crusade
34:36 The Princes’ Crusade
38:36 The Siege of Nicaea
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Those jewish massacres were a result of the resentment of local populations to the jews' usury, manipulation, degeneracy, and occasional torture and murder of Christian children which the jews practiced every country they wandered too. There is a reason they were kicked out of 109 countries
1 minute in and he already discribed what's happening now in 2025
The crusades in the Levant weren't the real war crimes they were made out to be. These were only reactions to Islamic aggression. The Northern Crusades, and that against the Cathars certainly were crimes, and are hardly remembered.
Crusaders – Jihadis of Middle East.
It's so astonishing that the strategy used in 10th century can still be used to motivate cadres in Muslim World
The crusades started off as a “reaction “ to Muslim conquest
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So creative and unique!
God bless Pope Urban II
It’s impossible to not look at the parallels of today.
Here before the modern one!