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I won’t say much about the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and even Classical period in Europe - there is too much history involved, I’m afraid it can’t be finished in three or five days.

A brief section says.

Until the establishment of the Roman Empire, Europe achieved unprecedented unity and strength - the Romans expanded their territory to the entire Italy, followed by the entire Mediterranean perimeter and Western Europe.

Later, the Ki religion was legalized under the rule of Constantine the Great.

Just a few generations later, the basic religion became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire was divided into two parts.

Then the barbarian tribes began to invade the Western Roman Empire. The Visigoths were one of the tribes that first crossed the Roman border south and west into the territory of the former Roman Empire, and in the early fifth century, they besieged Rome three times.

Later, the Visigoths established the Visigoth kingdom within the former Roman Empire.

Decades later, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed.

Europe entered the medieval period.

At this time, parts of Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean were still under the control of the increasingly surrounded Roman Empire, but were ruled by Constantinople instead of Rome.

Under Emperor Justinian, the Roman army restored imperial rule in most of the Mediterranean.

But the territory expanded by the Roman Empire this time began to erode in the late sixth century.

Constantinople's control over Western territory began to weaken, and more Germans invaded and established kingdoms.

The remnants of this Roman Empire are generally called the "Byzantine Empire".

By the seventh century, the Arab Empire rose, and the Arab Empire became a firm promoter of Muslim religion.

With the support of the powerful Arab Empire, the former Roman Empire was occupied by the Arab Empire in the provinces of the Middle East and North Africa and quickly became murmurized.

In the eighth century, Charlemagne was crowned king by the pope.

However, Charlemagne's territory was divided two generations later, and Europe was attacked by three groups: the Vikings in Scandinavian, the Muslim religion in North Africa, and the Magyars in Hungary.

The responses to these attacks vary - some regions unite to resist the threat, others take their own measures.

When the last millennium was about to end, the Near East had basically stabilized, and some balance was reached between the Byzantine Empire and the Arabs. The road to Jerusalem was also open and safe. The holy land was in the hands of Muslim religions. It was not only a holy place for the basic religions and a holy place for Muslim religions, but also attracted countless devout pilgrims.

However, this balance was broken by the Seljuk Turks. After the death of Emperor Basil II, the empire fell into the struggle between the Ducas and the Komuning dynasty. What is more serious is that the Slavs in the north, the Normans in the western Mediterranean and the Turks in the east began to pose a threat to the empire at the same time, especially the Seljuk Turks. After the collapse of the Arab Empire, they flocked to the Middle East in large numbers, converted to the Iranian religion, and established the Seljuk Empire in the middle of the eleventh century. In the Battle of Manzikt in Asia Minor, the Turks defeated the Byzantine army and captured the Emperor Romanus IV. From then on, the Byzantine Empire retreated step by step in the wars in the Near East and were unable to resist, so that the capital Constantinople was under the strategic siege of the enemy.

Moreover, the Turks were not as civilized as the Arabs. They made things difficult for pilgrims who went to the holy land in Europe, lent heavy taxes, and carried out frequent looting and insulting.

After this situation was passed back to Europe, it aroused great anger in the basic religious society.

Under pressure from the Turks, Alexus Comninius, the then Byzantine Emperor, finally had to ask for help from the Pope and the Western Church, hoping that they could provide military assistance and defeat these pagan enemies. He wrote to Pope Gregory VII, asking the West to send a mercenary army to help him regain his lost territory. The spoils along the way belonged to the mercenaries, and promised that the church would be reunified under the authority of the Pope after the event was completed.

Gregory VII was very moved and planned to lead a religious army to fight against God's enemies until the place of God's tomb.

But soon Gregory VII fell into a long struggle with German Emperor Henry IV and later died of depression.

The plan for the Eastern Expedition was inherited by Urban II, the descendant of Gregory VII.

Emperor Alexus' appeal made Urban II begin to make a grand idea: the Western basic religious world would regain the holy tomb with great efforts; the concentration of the army in the name of the Pope can prevent the rulers of Europe from fighting each other and bring peace to Europe; the concept of basic religious unity can also be brought to the East, and eventually even the long-term disagreement of the East and West churches can be reunified under the pope.

The First Crusade began since then.

The Crusaders crossed the sea near Constantinople and entered Asia Minor, captured the capital of the Roman Sultanate, and then captured Edessa and Antioch, establishing several of the first crusading countries - the Edessabo and the Antioch Principality.

Soon, the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem the holy land and established the Kingdom of Jerusalem in Jerusalem.

After Li Yan defeated the Turks and occupied Central Asia, he did not provoke these crusaders - before, Li Yan did not want to go to war with Europe.

But with the Second Eastern Expedition of the Crusaders, as the Crusaders easily defeated the Turks who were severely injured by the central army after entering Asia Minor, some Crusaders began to expand.

The crusaders led by King Conrad II of Germany and King Louis VII of France foolishly decided to attack the worthless target Damascus.

At this time, the Muslim religion in Damascus was still a strong ally of the Gai religion.

More importantly, Damascus is now named "Zhong", which is part of the "Tongguo" established by Li Yan's son Li Tong.

Therefore, the foolish claims of King Conrad II of Germany and King Louis VII of France were unanimously opposed by the crusad countries, who insisted that the Crusaders attack the Crusaders' greatest threat to Aleppo and recover Edsa, which was still under the control of the Turks.

King Conrad II of Khad and King Louis VII of Khad did not listen at all, and stubbornly attacked Damascus.

It was at this moment that Li Yan decided to go to war with Europe.

actually--

Li Yan decided to go to war with Europe, which had little to do with the Crusaders' attack on Damascus. It was mainly because Li Yan wanted European territory and European beauties.

but--

The Crusaders attacked Damascus but gave Li Yan an excuse to the western expedition - the Crusaders suddenly attacked Damascus and caught Li Tong off guard. What's even more unfortunate is that Li Tong died in battle while resisting the invasion of the Crusaders. In addition, after the capture of Damascus, the Crusaders led by King Conrad II of Germany and King Louis VII of France also carried out bloody battles on Damascus.

At that time, Yue Fei and Liu Qi, who had already left halfway, immediately took the banner of avenging Li Tong and the people of Damascus, and accelerated their quest to Damascus...

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