Talk:Faith/@comment-24.238.95.53-20171129230102/@comment-173.177.181.52-20171212021750

The first Crusades were not defensive. The first one took the idea of defending Byzantine Empire and threw a huge bunch of free soldiers and nobles into the Holy Lands as an offensive and a way to get rid of all these free mens that were fighting against each other in Europe and also to take Jerusalem. Then after it became more defensive if you think these lands were the ones of the Europeans at the first place.