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        11 months ago

        You… you do realize that the crusades weren’t the only military conflict in the Levant, right?

        … right…?

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                11 months ago

                There was a bit of a minor scrap with some basically unknown fellows called the Mongols, and then there were the quarrels between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Turks, the constant rebellions and civil wars, then the Ottomans and the pseudo-feudal wars, separatist movements, and peasant revolts of that period, which include both prior-to and after the US’s founding.

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                    11 months ago

                    … what timelines?

                    ‘Centuries after the crusades’ - there is not a single century without major upheaval in the region from the factors I mentioned after the crusades. Not. One.