Let me correct you

Submitted by Richard Lion heart (United States), May 14, 2006 at 23:47

You got it all wrong saladin. I'm not sure if you just don't know or if you do you it on purpose, but I will correct you anyway. In early Christianity there was the eastern byzantine empire and the western Holy roman empire. These two Christian empires never fought against each other altrhough they had their differences. Untill this day we still have western Catholicism and Russian and Greek Orthodox Christianity.

The crusades were lunched after the eastern christians appealed to the west for help against the continuing attacks they faced from the muslims. By that time the muslims had already conquered half the eastern empire. The crusades prevented them from conquering the other half, for at least for three centuries. So stop the disinformation.

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