Wild People, Resistance and Change History

At the time conquered the city of al-Nu'man Ma'arrat, wild Crusaders eviscerate the people of Islam, slicing his body and baked

Every time I read or study history, we usually think of great people, leaders, or which moved him very Important Person. In general, the history is almost always represented by these figures. However, sometimes it changes history pioneered by ordinary people, even by those who are involved in crime.

Some important events in world history actually started by people who are not disciplined and tend to the wild, even by the prisoners. Here we discuss three important examples in the history of European society.

1. I First Crusade

In November 1095 at Clermont, France, Pope Urban II announced the Crusade to help the Christians of the East and the threat of the Seljuq Turks to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim domination.A call was received from the public exceptional French and other Europeans. The nobles and small communities in droves states vow to go to Syria. Welcoming spirit of the holy war cry (holy war) and free themselves from sin was an important motive that encourages people to go out of their homes into the country very far to go to war with the Islamic people. However, the remarks of the Crusades may not be for it if published at different times.

Some books mention that the condition of France and other parts of Western Europe when it was not too good. GG Coulton dalam bukunya Crusades, Commerce and Adventure. GG Coulton in his Crusades, Commerce and Adventure mentions that French society at that time was in serious trouble. ' They are involved in a severe conflict, 'robberies often occur, and the streets filled with thieves. "Conflict and arson became common sights. People would be depriving the other party every time they have a chance.Viewed from this side, the Pope actually has a role in transferring 'excess energy' of the European community to the Turks and Arabs in Syria (Syria) there.

Antony Bridge in The Crusades explained that the success in mobilizing the masses in the First Crusade partly caused by difficult circumstances.' 'Plague of Europe since the 1083 attacks, floods after floods swept France and Germany, in 1094, destroyed crops, and the following year drought, its impact is tremendous hunger. The Europeans can get very wild in periods of famine, to the extent possible some of them do cannibalism, killing and eating another human flesh. Cities full of beggars who have no income and no place to live. Besides all that, Bridge is also the phenomenon robbery and common robbery Coulton as described above.

These people who became the first group of the Crusades, led by Peter the Hermit. Their numbers reached three hundred thousand people, including women and children, composed of people of France and Germany. We went past the big German cities, bad tempers these pilgrims came and fell down the first victims: the Jews.The pilgrims are poor and distress, while the Jews of Germany - which his ancestors is seen as the party which crucified Jesus - very rich. Without be hindered by his own Catholic leaders, the Jews were arrested, killed, and his property confiscated by the pilgrims.

When the Hungarian, they are well served by local residents who also Christian (although homage to the Orthodox). But the chaos back there. The pilgrims began to attack the local population, looting and burning their markets. Peter the Hermit, and some Catholic leaders who brought the pilgrims could not hold back the crowd was too great and not discipline. Residents who were attacked, of course run and unable to deal with people who attack them. However, they soon come together with residents in other cities and make fierce resistance when the pilgrims through the city. Now the pilgrims began to feel the effect of their actions. Some of them fled back to their country. Some conflicts are still occurring in some places they've been through, so when they cross the mountains of Thrace and the Byzantine forces under guard from their number was less than half.

Emperor of Byzantium and then placing them outside the city of Constantinople. They are advised to stay until a more complete army came and they could go along with people of Turkey. But these people re-create the scene. They began to steal in the market and the home residents as well as taking some part of the church building for sale. This situation makes the emperor encouraged them to immediately cross the Bosporus strait and go into Muslim areas. Force the first Crusade was finally receiving a bad fate at the hands of Turkish troops. They destroyed and the remainder fled in a state of scattered, their mission failed miserably.

Forces a more disciplined next cross only left a few months later, and they managed to control Jerusalem and some surrounding cities. Attitude of the crusaders who went lately better against their Christian brethren in Eastern Europe, but when facing the Muslims, they are not more humane than their counterparts who went first. They are killing Muslims in a number of very many in the cities they control. And while mastering the city of al-Nu'man Ma'arrat and famine stricken, they eviscerate the Islamic people, cutting their meat, and then roasting and eating them.

Demikianlah Perang Salib telah dimulai dengan gerombolan orang-orang Eropa Barat yang sangat buruk perangainya, bahkan terhadap rekan-rekan seagama mereka sendiri. Thus the Crusades began with a crowd of people of Western Europe a very bad temperament, even to colleagues of their own religion.Now we will see examples of the latter.

2.The discovery of the Americas

In the year 1492, roughly half years since the possession of Granada by the Kingdom of Aragon and Castile, a man born in Genoa, Italy, succeeded in realizing his plan an expedition by sea to India through the West. Yes, the man was Christopher Columbus. He did not succeed to reach India in these expeditions. However, what works is far more important discovery for Europe. Columbus has been 'discovered' a new world (a new world), he discovered the American continent. Since then, the Europeans announced Columbus as the first person who discovered the American continent, although this latter began to argue with. Admiral Cheng Ho was mentioned already arrived on the continent for more than half a century before the Columbus expedition.

Let's forget about who had first arrived in the Americas. In an effort to fulfill his dream, Columbus faced many challenges. Many Europeans still believe that the earth was flat. No one else is interested sailors to sail west across the Atlantic. No one knows what they'll find at the ocean's western edge. That is the idea crazy, totally crazy ideas do not generate click amazed, in fact it invites scorn and ridicule. But Columbus believed that the earth is round and therefore he could reach India by sailing to the West.

Because of this insane plan, Columbus difficult to get sponsors to finance her trip. And when Columbus managed to obtain support and funding, no one wants to go with him. To get the crew, the mission is then offered to the prisoners (convicts) with the reward of freedom for those who accompanied him. Demikianlah perjalanan yang sangat bersejarah ini ikut dipelopori oleh orang-orang penjara. This is a very historic trip was part pioneered by people in prison.

After sailing the ocean with three ships, not how big for about five weeks, Christopher Columbus and his crew, including the prisoner before, managed to reach the mainland (South America) and interacted with the indigenous population. Later known if it was not India, but a continent that they have never seen or heard or know. The inmates who accompanied Columbus having contributed to form a new history of the world.

3. The discovery of the Australian Continent

The Europeans certainly not the first 'discovered' the continent of Australia.Bugis people had sailed to Australia to seek tripang long before the first European explorers reached the continent. What distinguishes them is the fact that the Bugis people of the continent has never claimed as their territory and then master it and make the original inhabitants (aborigines) as second-class citizens.

At first, Europeans were not interested in making Australia as their colony.However, recently the UK was taken aback because the most important colony in the Americas became independent in 1776 (later became the United States). They were also puzzled by a prison system those who are no longer able to accommodate the prisoners. So ogled Australia began as a promising ground for the formation of a new colony. England then decided to send prisoners who could no prisons accommodated England to Australia to become the early generations who built the colony there.

The formation of this new colony began in January 1788, and British prisoners to send to this place gradually.Until the mid-19th century the number of inmates who are sent to this place a hundred and fifty thousand people. Twenty percent of this number are women and most of the womenfolk of this work as prostitutes. Once the economy started growing colony, the immigrants are free (not inmates) from various countries began to arrive in the continent. Even so, the narapidanalah who has started the history of modern Australia.These people, as well as their children, who became the early generations that make up the Australian society and the country we know today.

All three events mentioned above is a very important part of world history, especially modern Western history. The first (the Crusades), although it has passed seven centuries, still continues to affect our lives down to this day. He became the main symbol of conflict between the West and Islam. The second and third to open the way for the formation of a new civilization in two huge continents: America and Australia. Travel history was started by three wild men, prisoners, or in other words by people who are not respectable.

History is sometimes really weird and a little embarrassing ... but that's history.