Medieval times were gruesomely violent. So, the European monarchs had the idea to send the most bellicose and fiercest knights to a war outside their territory to calm down and take it no more against their own countrymen but against the infidel and try to establish peace somewhere else… for a good cause: religion! The pursuit of spirituality can always be used as a good cause for war…rarely for peace.
So they decided to go on the Crusades… for more than two hundred years! Approximately from 1080 to 1300.
Does it sound familiar?
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