Monday, August 17, 2026

The Crusades - Dr. Roy Casagranda

The Crusades - Part 2


🔆🔆🔆Ibn al-Khashshab {(son of the wood) Shi'a Qazi} - 05:10

- Arab world - 06:30

- Minority - 07:35

`Roman - Italian.

`Natsi - German.

`Japanese - Japanese.

- Egyptian Fatimid dynasty - 09:40

- Syria - 10:00

👑Ghaznavids.

👑Kakuyids (Shi'a).

👑Buyids (Shi'a).

🗽Saljiks - 10:25 (1037 AD).

🗽Saljuk started from Khurasan - 10:30

- Crusaders arrive 1098 - 11:10

🗽Saljiks first contact in 61 years - 11:15

🗽Saljuk sultan, Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar)  - 11:55

- Attacks Khalifa to shame him.

⚔Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar)'s army finds that...

🗡Aleppo has an army.

🗡Damascus has an army.

🗡Jerusalem has an army.

🗡Antioch has an army. - 12:45

🔙Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar)'s army returned back - 13:20

⚜Rizwan (Fakhr al-Mulk Ridwan), Leader of Aleppo - 13:50

⚜Duqaq (Shams al-Muluk Duqaq, Rizwan's brother the Leader of Damascus - 13:55

🛠Fatimid Khalifa al-Mustansir (al-Mustansir Billah) selected Nizar (Nizar ibn al-Mustansir) but Musta'li (Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Mustansir) got elected - 14:25

👺al-Afdal Shahanshah the Wazir pulling the strings - 15:05

- Musta'li (Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Mustansir) + al-Afdal Shahanshah defeat Nizar's (Nizar ibn al-Mustansir) army. Capture Nizar - 15:32

- Nizar got killed by trapping into a confinement. Slowly dehydrated & starved to death - 15:36

- That creates the Nizari sect of the Isma'ilis - 15:45

🕵🏻‍♀️ Hasan al-Saba'h - 16:00

🕵🏻‍♀️Hashshashin → Assassins (Order of Assassins) - 16:35🕵🏻‍♀️

⚜Rizwan (Fakhr al-Mulk Ridwan) was partially controlled by the Hashshashins - 16:50

🗽Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar) tries again by sending an army led by Mawdud (Sharaf al-Dawla Mawdud ibn Ahmad) - 17:50

⚜Duqaq (Shams al-Muluk Duqaq) dies & his top general, Toghtekin (Zahir al-Din Toghtekin) displaces his two sons & takes over - 18:00

⚔ Mawdud (Sharaf al-Dawla Mawdud ibn Ahmad) goes to Damascus & was killed by stabbing to death - 18:20

🔙Saljk army goes back again - 18:55

- Rizwan's son Alp Arsalan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) takes over after his death - 19:35

🔆🔆🔆 Ibn al-Khashshab (son of the wood) makes Alp Arsalan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) for targeted killing - 20:35

🤯Alp Arslan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) goes 2 years long murder scheme - 20:20

⚔️The slave, Lu'lu {(Lu'lu' al-Yaya) Pearl} stabbed Alp Arslan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) to death - 21:30

⚔️Hashshishans stabbed Lu'lu {(Lu'lu' al-Yaya) to death - 22:00

🔆🔆🔆Ibn al-Khashab {(son of the wood) Shi'a Qazi} became the defacto leader (1117 A.D) - 22:00 

🔆🔆🔆Ibn al-Khashshab {(son of the wood) Shi'a Qazi} makes Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) to take over the city - 23:00💥💥💥

- Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) was ruling Mardin in Iraq (1118 A.D.) - 23:20 

💥Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) defeats the Crusaders & drives them off - 23:45

💥Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) dies in liver failure in 3 years for heavy drinking - 24:40

- 20 days time for the the King of Jerusalem, Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) - 25:05

- Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) decides to attack Egypt - 25:15

- 500 soldiers - 25:35

💨🔙Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) takes a bath in the river Neil & Fatemid retreats - 25:50💨

🪱Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) dies in Bilharzia (Schistosomiasis) - 26:05

- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) - 27:10

- Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) created the County of Edessa, Syrian portion in Turkeiye - 27:20

- Turkish genocide of Armenia - 28:00

- Edessa = Şanlıurfa - 28:05

- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) replaces himself with the guy name Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) - 28:20

Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) was replaced by Balak (Nur al-Dawla Belek bin Bahram Ghazi) his cousin - 29:50💥💥💥

 Balak (Nur al-Dawla Belek bin Bahram Ghazi) fights Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) & captures him - 30:05    

- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) on the way to rescue Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) gets engages in falconry 🕊️ - 30:20

 Balak (Nur al-Dawla Belek bin Bahram Ghazi) shows up with his army & captures him - 30:50

🎈The guy in charge in Aleppo has physical possession of the King of Jerusalem - 31:00

🎈 The Count of Edessa just taken out 2 of the 4 crusader leaders - 31:10

 1125 A.D. The Crusaders were here for 27 years - 31:30 

- The Crusaders have captured all the cities on the Syrian-Palestinian coast except two. They were missing Ascalon (Fatimid)

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The Crusaders took an army to take Ascalon from the Fatimid Dynasty at 1111 A.D - 31:50

💨They surrounded the town to put it under siege but the ruler panicked & surrendered - 32:00💨

 Leader of Ascalon gives ransom to be free - 32:25

People killed the Leader of Ascalon & his guard. They go over to the Citadel & murdered the Crusaders to liberate the city - 32:30

The Crusader tried to attack Tyre, Lebanon. It was an island. Alexander the Great didn't have a navy to contest the Persian navy. So he made a causeway to connect it with the mainland which is now a peninsula. The Crusaders build a tower & tried to capture it with a battering ram. - 32:40

Arabs took Oil & fecal matter to dump on Crusaders then light it on fire. The tower went to inferno. The Crusaders give up & leave - 33:50

- 13 years later. The Venetians show up with their navy. Demanded ONE QUARTER of everything - 34:30

- Tyre, Lebanon the island in the Mediterranean didn't have fresh water supply underneath. There were water stored in Cistern. If the city goes under siege, they've boats in the water to to fetch fresh water - 37:05 

People of Tyre, Lebanon called Balak - 38:00

- Manbij,  Northern Syria goes to rebellion - 38:20

Balak wanted to end the rebellion of Manbij, Northern Syria but a stray arrow hits him by the clavicle & sinks in very deep. He pulls it out. He tells his men, "Islam was just struck a terrible blow." Falls over dead! - 38:50

- Timurtash (Ala ud-Din Timurtash) is Ilghazi's (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) son. Timurtash is just 19 years old. He has two things his mind which were not in Aleppo. It's sex & alcohol. That's all he cares about. He hates Aleppo & wants to get out as fast as he can - 39:25

Timurtash (Ala ud-Din Timurtash) releases Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) & Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) with money - 40:15

- Timurtash (Ala ud-Din Timurtash) goes back to Mardin, Turkiye - 40:45

- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem), "I'm gonna take Aleppo!" - 40:45

🔆🔆🔆 Ibn al-Khashshab (son of the wood) calls al-Bursuqi (Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi) - 41:40

al-Bursuqi (Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi) saves the city - 41:50

🕵🏻‍♀️Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) kill Ibn al-Khashshab - 42:00🕵🏻‍♀️

🕵🏻‍♀️Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) kill al-Bursuqi (Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi) in following few months - 42:10🕵🏻‍♀️

🔆🔆🔆 No Ibn al-Khashshab = No leader of Aleppo - 42:50 🔆🔆🔆

🕵🏻‍♀️Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) stats to take over Damascus - 43:15🕵🏻‍♀️

- Toghtekin (Zahir al-Din Toghtekin) is getting old - 43:30

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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Secrets of The Ice Age | Who Were They ? | A Race Before Adam A.S







Secrets of The Ice Age | Who Were They ? | A Race Before Adam A.S

- Milankovitch cycle (Ice age) - 03:55

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