The Crusades: Part 1

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At the end of the lecture, Prof Cassagranda is telling the story of the Childrens Crusade and how they were sold into slavery. The laughing coming from the class is rather disturbing yet illuminating. The idea of European children amuses them, how do they feel about the experience of slavery in America? Do they laugh when they see depictions of whips on human flesh, or does the fetish only extend to cruelty to white children?

Such bloodthirst is horrifying!

I love watching your lecture Professor. All the way from Malaysia!

Buy yourself coffee on me. You've earned it. More to come, Habibi. Your presentations are more than fair.
Much love and respect from Palestine😍
The home of the free.. and the land of the brave✌️
Let the truth rain👊

Dr. Casagranda should stick to historical fiction. He has a real gift for it.

Would be a decent lecture if he wasn't wasting our time with his constant virtue signaling

No sir that's your own humbble interpretation when you say they were nice bc they were ignorant, they were nice to the new people bc they are governed by avery nice book in it Allah told us be my representative and treat people kindly

People, what is stopping you from accepting Islam?

Amazing

Well the buildup about the vikings is not accurate. First of all scandinavia wasnt a backdrop with the shittiest land, it was also the absolute most resourseful land in terms of vital minerals (like iron) transported from Norway over the rivers in sweden down to the mediterraenean. This was the main driver behind increasing wealth during the iron age. Second, calling scandinavian german at the time would be like calling spanish latin today.

Im crying watching this..

I would love to see lecture about area of Illyria as early as possible to modern day Balkan and especially Bosnia because what I have read from social media Serbs says that Bosnians are actually Muslim Serbs and Serbs are original people of that area, whyt I can't believe as true.

So would be great to sea your thought and knowledge about it. It is between Iran and Italy. 😁

The most amazing lecture ever! 😊

Enjoyable history with facts

In capitalism you buy and sell slaves, in communism you just take them for free.

I wonder if there is a connection between Professor’s last name and the city Casa Grande in AZ

Please promote your writings! The moment I saw your novel I went online looking for it. It not available in my country Pakistan. 😢

You sir, are a great historian. I am so lucky to find your channel. Thank you for sharing your valuable time with us and God bless you.

I'd love to play CK3 with this guy

@Roy Casagranda - Thank you for the lecture. So, the Arabs ended the Roman empire and that is not well known. Very appreciative of the timeline really which puts events into perspective.

Guy laughing at the end is crazy 😂

The subject caught my interest but when i saw the length of it i thought i will watch some of it but once it started i couldn't leave. Thank you so much for a great lecture

As an Arab and Muslim I think i have to disagree with the idea of Naming it the Arab empire
It's true that the Arabs started it but the Muslims in general are the ones who kept it running including Arabs and non Arabs
For exemple Many scholars Were not Arabs like Ibn roshd Ibn nafis.
And lot of military and political figures like Nouredin Zinki who's turk or Saljuk
Or Salahddin ayubi whos kurd
But they all fall under the Muslim Empire and not the Arab Empire

Hi Roy… you are an amazing eloquent lecturer… could you recommend some books to read please. Thank you

This professor need to teach in all universities around the world

Did u cut ur hair or did ur head get smaller?

the reason why you should call it the Muslim empire is because the 1st identity marker of the people who made the conquest was religious as opposed to racial or ethnic like the other empires. The islamic empire rose on the shoulders of muslims of of course largely arab blood, but a sizeable portion of converts, some of which even were companions of the prophet (persians and romans, ethnic jews who converted to islam etc.) It was an islamic conquest.

What books do you recommend on this subject

So true about the Muslims being "disunited" this is what brought almost all the Muslim Empires down. This is the worry that the Prophet (peace be upon him had for the ummah)

Christian Crusaders were Cannibals!

Im your fucking follower from turkey dr im ready to do anything at this point :D

If you consider this "informative" you are fully misinformed! This guys revisionist history is completely motivated by a dawahist hatred of the west. Islam is a religion designed to create brainwashed foot soldiers...just like he is trying to make you hate western civilization to help destroy it from within...a technique this old arabic "religion" has used over and over again!

This Professor is an extremely knowledgeable yet cool / humorous Legend…whose legacy will generate much needed knowledge in the west systematically boycotted by centres of learning for centuries due to European imperialism and academics with anti Islam bias…

Is Dr Roy a Muslim?

Good Arabic pronunciation!

He is into altaic. Cool!

Wish I had Teachers like that ....

As always Dr. Roy, fantastic lecture. For the entirety of the lecture, it's hard to blink your eye not to miss such an amazing content.
If I may, I have to disagree with you with the naming of the "Arabian Empire". It is true, the Ummayyid caliphate merely relied on the Arabs and that was one of the reasons behind the rise of the Abbassid caliphate among other reasons, and it's still true that the abbassids themselves (for the first century and a half) did the same as Ummayyids when it comes to Arabs, but it's important to note that the main and only reason this empire was united is Islam. The Arabs themselves were not a united entity but based on clans, and what made them forget about the clan thing was that Islam denounced tribalism and favoured piety.
Yes, high rankings and sensitive positions in the empire was given to Arabs, but that concept quickly faded with time. Persians and turks in particular started to gain more and more power overtime. Soon after the Abbasid caliphate was established, breakaway states started to emerge starting from Andulisia all the way to India, and these new states did not maintain that Arab principle thing, but they did with Islam. As an Example, Egypt was ruled by a turk, then by an Ethiopian before the fatimids, they still held loyalty to the caliph in Baghdad, but at that point it was just symbolic. Islam was the main feature of these states. By the time the crusaders arrive, there isn't much of an empire there, rather, bunch of ones that the only one thing they had in common was Islam. Ayyubid Dynasty, and then the mamluks, were the main characters to step up and stand for the crusaders and then the mongols. They weren't specifically Arabs, very especially the mamluks. Saladin for example was a kurd, not an Arab. Emadduldin Zinki, the first one to realize the danger of the crusaders and puts up unified resistance, was a turk.
Abbasids at that time were still standing in Baghdad, but there impact was non-existant, merely an image, and their borders didn't get past modern-day Iraq until Holagu arrived and ended them.
The point is, if Islamic empire is an incorrect name for this thing, Arabian empire name would be more erroneous, though the main feature of the empire was Islam, and that was the same feature that will unite the breakaway states later against the crusaders and the mongols. Arabs role in Islam began to fade after 2 centuries from the emerge of Islam, and that role began to be independent of fade. Arabian Peninsula, for example, after the fall of the Abbasids, will not be truly ruled by Arabs until the last century. Same story for Egypt and Levant.

UK still own Australia, Canda, New Zealand, Greenland too

Love the fact you referred to ERE as Roman Empire instead of Byzantine and calling out the 476 ad myth. This has been a super entertaining lecture. A lecture that keeps its audience enthralled.

Love this guy ❤

Om my god
The children point at the end is totally insane

I am an agnostic person... But, I still respect religion. Western scholars keep doing this mistake... Arab Empire, Ottoman Empire, Byzantine Empire, all of these names are wrong. These entities had unique names but western institutions keep insisting naming things to their liking...

Dr..sorry but i will like to correct you But Muslims didn’t have their own money coin till Umaya Dynasty under Emir Marwan Abdul Malik.

Can we get taimurlane history???

Thanks Dr. Roy. You give the best lectures!

I love the little nuggets of facts that Prof Casagranda casually drops in to his lectures. I learn so much from these talks I'd like them to go on for much longer!