HIST 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Santa Barbara City College, Iberian Peninsula, Christian Pilgrimage
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Medieval civ divide between islam and christianity. In truth, their religions were actually quite similar. A place where they actually got along just fine. For the most part pilgrimages were welcome. A bunch of fighting small states, center of their world was. Franks came over a lot to do the crusades after their agricultural revolution boomed their population. Jerusalem is right on the line between these two kingdoms, so crusaders don"t fight a unified front. Proposes that the more appropriate way to think of it is that this is a war about. Trying to come in and conquer the rich civilizational core, a part of a larger pattern that the crusaders were also a part of. They do it not just for the riches of the core, but it has cultural value. Core is byzantium/islam caliphates in eastern med and. Considered like barbarians, brave but not super smart.
