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To: c.hinton who wrote (239891)	8/25/2007 1:49:26 AM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

i wish all a happy labor day in advance.......

To: c.hinton who wrote (239891)	8/25/2007 2:52:58 AM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

Psss byzantium was not just sacked but also occupied and governed by the franks and venetians for more than 50 years

To: c.hinton who wrote (239891)	8/25/2007 8:55:28 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

pss....i was wrong about the date ...you are wrong about holy places and colonies en.wikipedia.org No, I am not wrong about the Crusader states. Did I say there were no Crusader states? I said the Crusades were religious wars designed to secure control of the holy places. Once secured, they had to be held. Of course the Crusaders set up states, how else were they to hold them? (btw state-building was something the Normans were very good at). That doesn't mean that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was set up as a profit center for exploiting the local resources (unless you count pilgrimage as a resource) or a place for new European settlement. Those are the motives for colony-building.