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Originally posted by ltl/fb
The Crusades were about redistribution of income? It seems to me it was a bunch of rich people living off poor peasants as they rode through Europe to attack the infid . . . uh, I mean, Constantinople.
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The Crusades were a papist plot to distract people from the wretched, conflict ridden state of the major polity of the west by invading the Middle East.
Slave and his brethern among the Rs are quite familar with such things.
