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What's specifically wrong about the first crusade? It was in response to the rise of the seljuk Turks and their advance on the Byzantines and also similar to the Muslim invasions of the middle east, northern africa, southern italy, and spain.

That area of the world had changed hands between Rome and Persia for hundreds of years before then as well.

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Ah, the Crusades were good because the Moors invading Europe was good? Or is this another case of "You say what we did was bad, but people who I think are terrible also did the same thing, therefore what we did was actually good!"

I guess this adds "also other people did things like that" to it, but are you saying anything here you couldn't also say about slavery or serial killing?

People should be judged relative to their time.

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