Right click Descr-strat.txt and take it off read only or edits will not stay. And western colonialism in the Holy Land was only the beginning of a long history of colonialism that has continued into the 20th century. The Crusades certainly accelerated the deterioration of western relations with the Byzantine Empire and contributed to the destruction of that realm, with the disastrous consequences that followed. With the support of the Byzantine emperor, the knights, guided by Armenian Christians ( 57.185.3 ), tenuously marched to Jerusalem through Seljuq-controlled territories in modern Turkey and Syria.
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