gold is money ... gold coins used by crusaders, page-21

For those that want to read wider than a very biase Wikipedia,or who have only been educated by the movies, would realise that most of what people spout about the cusades is dribble.

The crusades were firstly a call, as Horsa, stated to free Jersulam from the Muslims, and to free there fellow Christians.

It is all very well for us ,a 1000 years later, to cast dispersians on people that lost land, wealth and life to do this.

Remember if it was not for those people that answered the call to arms we could possibly now be living in a Muslim world and then you would really be complaining. Read the history e.g Battle of Vienna.

Yes crusaders committed atrocisties, as did Muslims. Where did all the North Africian churches and Christians go? slaughtered by muslim armies. etc etc.

I would say that the crusaders are far more heroic than a lot of the armies taht we see today.