Episode #58 - How Do You Explain the First Crusade? (Part I)

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

There are few medieval events that are still as politically loaded as the Crusades. Even though the First Crusade was launched well over 900 years ago people are still debating it's merits. The debate becomes even more complicated when you consider all of the mythology, falsehoods, and popular misconceptions that surround this event. How should we make sense of this deeply complex and sometimes downright unbelievable story. Tune and find out how people being hung from their bits, the Sultan of Rome, and the end of the world all play a role in the story.
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0:00.0	Hi, this is Chris Howard from the Plugna XR Podcast and I'm taking the pie
0:03.3	draze over the pirates in their game June 27th.
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0:18.1	Throughout human history, there has been a recurring idea and that's that the end of the world
0:26.1	is right around the corner.
0:28.6	This belief that the current generation will most likely be the last generation occurs
0:36.1	across time and across cultures.
0:39.6	In my own lifetime, I've been witness to at least two full on apocalypse panics and I'm
0:46.5	only 32 years old.
0:49.0	As 1999 became the year 2000, some people panicked that the fabled Y2K bug would lead to a
0:57.4	complete civilizational collapse.
1:00.6	Air planes would fall from the sky, financial markets would tank and bank accounts worldwide
1:07.3	would suddenly read zero.
1:10.2	When the clock struck 12 and the disaster was nowhere to be seen, everyone was able to
1:15.8	giddly dance to prints and carry on.
1:19.7	But not 12 years later, the apocalypse was in the news again.
1:26.2	This time, people were stressing about the supposed end of the Mayan long count calendar.
1:33.4	What if the ancient Mesoamericans were correct and the world was scheduled to end in 2012?
1:41.2	Would the ancient gods of the Mayans return to cleanse the world with fire?
1:47.1	Well, luckily for us, they did not.
1:51.4	2012 may have not brought on the same kind of anxiety as Y2K, but it was remarkable that yet again,
1:59.2	the end of the world was a topic of conversation.
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