At the time of the Crusades the global population was something like a fiftieth or a thirtieth what it is now, and the Crusaders rode on horseback for hundreds of miles. But, oh, "only 3-9 million," brutally slaughtered in the name of a preposterous belief. That would be equivalent to murdering 100-500 million today. Your dismissal of this is nothing short of monstrous.
At the time of the Crusades the global population was something like a fiftieth or a thirtieth what it is now, and the Crusaders rode on horseback for hundreds of miles. But, oh, "only 3-9 million," brutally slaughtered in the name of a preposterous belief. That would be equivalent to murdering 100-500 million today. Your dismissal of this is nothing short of monstrous.
At the time of the Crusades the global population was something like a fiftieth or a thirtieth what it is now, and the Crusaders rode on horseback for hundreds of miles. But, oh, "only 3-9 million," brutally slaughtered in the name of a preposterous belief. That would be equivalent to murdering 100-500 million today. Your dismissal of this is nothing short of monstrous.