Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

[macaan]

 

[Samaalic Era]

Fourth Crusade is hilarious. Them Venetians back-stab europe for the next 500 years. They gave maps to Mongols and sold information to the Turks

 

[4head]

 

[macaan]

Fourth Crusade is hilarious. Them Venetians back-stab europe for the next 500 years. They gave maps to Mongols and sold information to the Turks

They may have sold out their Eastern Orthodox cousins to oblivion, but you can't knock their hustle for $

Btw, a large portion of the loot/booty ended up in Venice, including the famed Horses of Saint Mark:

 

[Cauli]

Ironically, it was the Fourth Crusade that enabled the Ottoman Turks to then successfully conquer Constantinople two centuries later.

Eastern and Central Europe would be a playground for the Turks for the next 500 years. :siilaanyolaugh:

The dream of Nur al Din, the Turk atabeg of Aleppo seeing his Crusader and Byzantine enemies vanquished would have made him smile in his grave.