>The Crusaders looted, terrorized, and vandalized Constantinople for three days, during which many ancient and medieval Roman and Greek works were either stolen or destroyed. The famous bronze horses from the Hippodrome were sent back to adorn the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, where they remain. As well as being stolen, works of immeasurable artistic value were destroyed merely for their material value. One of the most precious works to suffer such a fate was a large bronze statue of Hercules, created by the legendary Lysippos, court sculptor of Alexander the Great. Like so many other priceless artworks made of bronze, the statue was melted down for its content by the Crusaders. The great Library of Constantinople was destroyed as well.
>Despite their oaths and the threat of excommunication, the Crusaders systematically violated the city's holy sanctuaries, destroying or stealing all they could lay hands on; nothing was spared, not even the tombs of the emperors inside the St Apostles church. The civilian population of Constantinople were subject to the Crusaders' ruthless lust for spoils and glory; thousands of them were killed in cold blood. Women, even nuns, were raped by the Crusader army,[ which also sacked churches, monasteries and convents. The very altars of these churches were smashed and torn to pieces for their gold and marble by the warriors. Although the Venetians engaged in looting too, their actions were far more restrained.[citation needed] Doge Dandolo still appeared to have far more control over his men. Rather than wantonly destroying all around like their comrades, the Venetians stole religious relics and works of art, which they would later take to Venice to adorn their own churches. Based Venice.Those sea merchant Jews have been screwing Byzanshits since forever.
Dominic Roberts
YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS FRANKS
I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU AS A GREEK
CATHOLICS WILL GET DIVINE RETRIBUTION ONE DAY
Oliver Garcia
>The great Library of Constantinople was destroyed as well. So much history has been wiped out.
Aiden Jackson
Funny how /pol/ cucks always bring up mongols / russians and rape , but wear the crusades with a badge and honor .
Chase Johnson
>One of the most precious works to suffer such a fate was a large bronze statue of Hercules, created by the legendary Lysippos, court sculptor of Alexander the Great. Like so many other priceless artworks made of bronze, the statue was melted down for its content by the Crusaders. The great Library of Constantinople was destroyed as well. Thats terrible desu
Gavin Parker
Because it's unironically ok if Whites do it. Bringing White genes into a foreign gene pool is a net positive, and the receivers should be grateful - every culture values light skin and caucasoid facial features. On the other hand, bringing shitty Mongoloid/Turkic trash genes into a White gene pool is nothing but an act of genetic pollution.
Caleb Stewart
Why are catholics such ruthless barbarians?
Angel Torres
The real answer is that pol has a lot of larping catholics, and the west was just as barbaric as everybody else up until the enlightenment.
Gavin Lee
The Italian Jew is worse even than the actual Jew.
Ian Rodriguez
Such is war, nothing out of the ordinary. Even now does looting and rape still occur.
Camden Young
>Constantinople was full of riches and plunder >yet the Greeks didn't pay their debts, causing the Fourth Crusade to divert LMAO they deserved everything they got.
Charles Hernandez
>Although the Venetians engaged in looting too, their actions were far more restrained.[citation needed] Pretty sure that part comes off Niketas Choniates's account of the sack.
Lincoln Robinson
In fairness, the city being rich doesn't equates to the government (aka the actual debtor) being rich. The decades before the fourth crusade saw some insanely bad government that bankrupted the empire. In fact, when Alexios was put back in power by the crusaders, he had to tax the ever living shit of the citizenry to pay up, to the point that the nobility rose up and murdered him. That's when the crusaders took offense (>killing our client under flag of truce with our army holding the city >dumbass fucking byzs) and decided to sack.
Ryan Perry
>hercules heracles you mean
Josiah Rogers
I couldn’t care less about What happened to the byzantines but the destruction of so much history triggers me to hell
Jordan Gutierrez
they must have been crazy with blood that is so stupid
Lucas Wood
Raping wh*tes is a net positive for the planet.
Justin Barnes
White people did this.
reminder that whites did this to themselves
Nathaniel Carter
Kek and you retarded niggers are crying over the turkish conquest even when the ottomans turned that city into a true city with infrastructure and comfy ornate wooden houses.
Luke Stewart
>fr*nch and kr*uts >white
Leo Cruz
>the middle ages weren't as bad as most people think
Easton Turner
Anglo here.
It's because they're not white.
Isaiah Wilson
Bronze statues are always a target for destruction. The shit is expensive. People scrapped statues in antiquity too. Happened a lot in the renaissance as well since cannons are more useful. Library of Alexandria is a fucking meme that idiots rant on and on about despite the fact that we'd probably only learn trivial shit and it would've been destroyed at one point in time, simply due to the turmoil of the area
Grayson Butler
>every culture values light skin and caucasoid facial features (you)
Anthony Perez
>Crusaders sack Constantinople >hehe, rekt, the weak shall fear the strong, Might makes Right, Deus Vult >Muslims conquer land >How dare they, only filthy subhuman Muslims can do this, reeeee
Luis Campbell
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Henry Nguyen
Sorry I don't go to /pol/. Pls explain
Justin Sanders
It was about Crusaders not White people.
Tyler Clark
Pointing out incoherence and inconsistence is nigger-like behavior according to /pol/. Which shouldn't be surprising, really.
Daniel Rivera
outline of the typical negro meme on twitter
Jace Gonzalez
post an actual example
Zachary Butler
Maybe not facial features, but skin colour absolutely. Light skin = rich enough to stay inside all day, dark = works in the fields all day. Only in the west is a tan considered attractive.
Jordan Morris
>implying it wasn't revenge for the Massacre of the Latins.
Hudson Fisher
Why do people keep repeating this meme? Fourth Crusade was simply one of opportunity. The Massacre of the Latins had taken place over a generation ago by this point, and the response to that was the Siege of Thessaloniki.
Dominic Martin
No it really wasn't.
Julian Rodriguez
>strawmanning is pointing out incoherence and inconsistence
Connor Nguyen
They worship the man who leads the Cult of Rome, not Jesus.
Carter Brooks
>Excommunicated >Catholics
Jace Butler
Yeah you do.
Joshua Hernandez
Ven*tians make jews look like the most honorable people on earth.
Jeremiah Thompson
Except they weren't excommunicated until after they had done it and the pope changed his mind and rescinded most of the excommunications anyway.
Ian Morris
Jesus Christ
Jackson Thompson
Dammed Latins
Colton Brown
*teleports behind you*
Bentley Hernandez
>When Innocent III heard of the sack(of Zara), he sent a letter to the crusaders excommunicating them and ordering them to return to their holy vows and head for Jerusalem. Out of fear that this would dissolve the army, the leaders of the crusade decided not to inform their followers of this. In any event, Innocent shortly reconsidered his decision. Regarding the Crusaders as having been blackmailed by the Venetians, in February 1203 he rescinded the excommunications against all non-Venetians in the expedition.
Nicholas Peterson
>ZOMG WHY DOES POL ONLY LIKE IT WHEN WHITES DO SOMETHING OVER RETARDED NIGGERS, CHINKS OR INBRED TURKS???
Gee this really left my scratching my head. Faggot.
Jason Lopez
kek
Henry Hernandez
>they dindu nuffin they wuz good boys >it was all the doge fault puttin bad ideas in dere heads >need mo money fo dem crussaids such an innocent pope
Mason Wood
>Venice and the anchors to threathmen the Pope. Venice was just filled with badasses it seems.
Christian King
*had
Andrew Murphy
I think the west lost its barbarism with the renaissance.
Christian Johnson
Maybe if they didn't want Catholics to hate them, they shouldn't have helped the Turks in the 2nd and 3rd Crusades. Or Massacred the Catholics and sold the remaining survivors as slaves to the Turks.
Why do people act like they were poor victims that did nothing?
Easton Perez
They are humble merchants.
Andrew Thomas
They literally just were merchants who didn't no nothing except sell and loan shit
Gabriel Rivera
They need more money for dem galleys and exotic fish.
Luke Morgan
Do realize that in the war you've posted Venice never actually switched sides. The pope and his cronies did, betraying France first and Venice later. You can hardly blame Venice for resenting the imperial blackmail attempt (gib all your mainland or I invade u while your armies are busy fighting the french) the pope opted to back no fucks given about fairness.
Levi Reyes
Whites are inferior to normal people
Luis Roberts
>Why do people act like they were poor victims that did nothing? Because muh shield against the mudslimes. Calling out the byzs for being every little bit as base as anyone else goes against the narrative of the united christian world that only fell to the invading infidels due to the perfidy and treachery of greedy jews.
Zachary Mitchell
Cmon a crusade sacking Constantinople thats hilarious as it must have been confusing
Anthony Hughes
Was the library destroyed twice? I remember reading that it was destroyed by muslims.