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No.

>>34119

In the movie, they're from Etheopia. And Etheopia was still orthodox christians at the time I guess.

No, but the Ethiopians tried manning a crusade in the late 14th century, but they failed.

In fact it was the opposite in the first crusade: there were Ethiopians in the ranks of the Fatimids at the battle of Ascalon in 1099.

So yeah Kingdom of Heaven is bullshit and they put a black just to get a higher score in minority.

>>34121

Ethiopia wasn't even connected with Europe before Portuguese came in late 15th century.

Something like what happened in the movie, extremely unlikely but possible imo.

I read somewhere that western crusader knights influenced Ethiopian "kinghts", and that some of these served in crusader armies, i don't think is really all that far fetched, they'd be like black armenians in a way.

>>34126

But they came from the levant then at that point in the movie

>>34119

Nope. This is just Hollywood "fixing" history for the sake of social justice.

At best, the Crusader armies might have hired the services of local mercenary groups, which in turn may or may not have had some black people in them, but the crusaders came from Europe.

Which in turn (and despite of what typical SocJus cultists like to claim) had virtually no black people at the time.

>>34119

Well considering muslim arabs pretty much created the modern black slave trade and took black boys from african countries to cut their dicks and balls (most of them dying in the process) to make them eunuch then I guess more than a few blacks would join the crusades, even if just for revenge

But again this is conjecture, don't get your hopes up tumblr

>>34150

>had virtually no black people at the time

Yep

>>34219

>Arabs from Arabia starting West African slave trade

>shig.dig

Come on dude, don't be satisfied with a simple explanation. Both black Africans and lighter skinned north African Muslims captured and sold black African animist and even Muslims into slavery

>>34119

Aside from that, don't forget that there were many African mercenaries, it's not impossible that some of them converted to christianity or were hired by crusaders