(June 28, 2015 at 7:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So the answer is that you do not know what you are talking about. I already knew that.
Julius Caesar conquered all of Gaul in 8 years. Time to stop listening to those cassock wearing perverts. They don't know shit.
The Byzantine emperors wasted a good deal of time on fruitless campaigns. But as I said he did not ask the Pope to send forces to the Eastern Roman Empire. As soon as Urban was asked to, he did straight away. He sent more than just forces in fact, he threw half of Europe at the infidel to protect fellow Christians in the East.