[umgud]

This history, rather predictably, doesn't mention the 450 years of jihad that had overwhelmed Christian lands in the Middle East and North Africa before any Crusade was contemplated.

If people are ignorant about history, does that mean it didn't happen?

[endthematrix]

"If people are ignorant about history, does that mean it didn't happen?"

Yes.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH! "In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance." - Orwell, 1984.