Terry Jones: Self - Presenter

Quotes 

• Self - Presenter : The Turks had only massacred to the Arabs, but the Pope wanted to create war fever. And to achieve it he gave a practical solution to the problem of being a Christian knight: Christ had been misquoted. It was only a sin to kill Christians.

• Self - Presenter : Byzantium was bigger than all western cities put together. Also, it was full of all the riches of a Roman imperial capital.

• Hugh of France : [recounting the cruelties meted by the People's Crusade against the inhabitants near Nicaea]  hey sacked the outskirts of Nicaea, and treated people fairly cruel and heartless. Some children were cut to pieces. Others were nailed to wooden poles and roasted them over the fire. The old were subjected to every kind of torture.

  Self - Presenter : Unfortunately, this action had no great effect in reducing the worldwide population of Muslims because the Crusaders' victims, including children and old, were Christians.

• Self - Presenter : [describing the Turk ambush of the People's Crsusade]  The Turkish sultan sent two spies to Zivoto, where 20,000 French were waiting, to spread the rumor that Germans they had taken Nicaea and were going to keep all of the loot. This created so much rage among the French, that when it became known that the rumors were false, the calls for revenge became calls for justice. They were ambushed 5 km away here, on this very road. And so the People's Crusade came to an end.

  Anna Comnena : When they collected the remains of the fallen, they picked up not just a ridge or a hill but a mountain of considerable height, width and depth. Such was the number of bones.