9th January 2008, 4:06 PM
N-Man Wrote:Well, that's very silly. At the time of Kingdom of Heaven, the "white men" (the Arabs I've met generally considered themselves to be "white" btw) were engaged in perpetual warfare with each other, while the Middle East was pretty much an ocean of peace - at least if you don't consider the arrival of the Turks, which is what brought the white man to intervene in the first place.
The turks and Mongols more or less disrupted that peace; It was the burning of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher that triggered the first crusade that and assaults on Byzantium.