Anatoly Fomenko, Gleb Nosovskiy
ASIN: B013J9WYHU
Publisher: Delamere Publishing
Pages: 202
Why and when were the Crusades?Christianity originated in the Byzantine Empire in XII century as an Oriental Orthodox Catholic religion that went in the XII-XV centuries through the subsequent splits, mutations into the competing Orthodox, Catholic, Western, Eastern, and Oriental Christianity, Mithraism, Judaism, Buddism, and Islam.Crusades of 1189-1192 AD and 1199-1204 AD to Jerusalem-Constantinople were military operations under the banner of Christianity by the followers and relatives of Jesus idem Emperor Andronicus killed during a religious mutiny. Crusades have ended with the Sack of Constantinople in 1204.Crusades provoked a counter-reaction of Islam that by the XIII century started to morph from an early Christian belief into a powerful religious movement, forming a Caliphate that spans from Middle Asia to Spain. Constantinople was taken by Mehmet the Conqueror in 1453, renamed ...