What if the European peoples had banded together to destroy the early Islamic caliphates?

Would have been world peace because Europeans would never declare war on each other

what if they did that now?

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What if the European peoples had banded together to destroy the early Islamic caliphates?

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Haven’t spent much time trading about the Spanish reconquista or the crusades, have you?

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Haven’t spent much time trading about the Spanish reconquista

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I offered a guy the 30 Years War for it

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Haven’t spent much time trading about the Spanish reconquista or the crusades, have you?

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There’s like 100 things wrong with this quote from you.

First, the Crusades did not happen in the early days of Islam during the 600s and 700s when the first 3 caliphates were founded. The crusades were 400-500 years later when Islam was already firmly established and never going away.

Also, the Crusades were often weak, half-arse efforts fought with mercenaries.

Furthermore, the Crusades were not intended to stamp out Islam or destroy caliphates. They were intended to recapture Christian holy lands around Israel that had been invaded and captured by the Muslims centuries earlier.

The degree this post is completely ignorant of history is absolutely staggering.

And riddled with hindsight.


To put in context, to do what you suggest would be like suggesting South America invading the US.

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The degree this post is completely ignorant of history is absolutely staggering.

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It's because the OP is a bona fide drunk retard. Disgrace to his own kind. A child and pure idiot in the worst way.

Just speaking facts young man. I do contribute greatly on the Tiger Rant. See my topic history

Then look at your own

Pot meet kettle meets Pot again

You want to pit Europe when they were still reeling and still trying to figure out how to fill the void after the fall of the Roman Empire, against a surging group that was the center of academic learning and accomplishment in the world in the period.

Never mind that when Europe actually could project power, they still failed to take and hold even a small portion of the area, even with religious motivations.

They only barely beat back the Muslims right in the time period you are talking about, with the overconfident Muslims allowing their backs to be broken at Tours.


Which leads to the secondary point: in the time period you are talking about, Europe WAS fighting. They pushed exactly as hard as they could.

What precisely is it you are saying they should have done. Killed every man woman and child in Islamic territories? Europe didn’t have the ability to hold such a wide swath of territory for a duration. Hell, if you want a modern analogue, the hugely lopsided battle between the US and Afghanistan had the US there for 20 years and nothing changed. What you expect to happen with near peers?

Res ipsa loquitur