476 - Rome falls to the Goths, who, by the way, were not quite barbarians, since most of them were Arian Christians.
528 - Emperor Justinian outlaws the Olympic Games (considered pagan)
529 - Emperor Justinian closes Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, both over 950 years old.
632 - Byzantine-Arab war
782 - Charlemagne orders the beheading of pagans
850 - Eastern Orthodox Empress Theodora orders execution of Paulicans (heretics)
1095 - People's Crusade
1095 - First Crusade: Pope Urban II calls for a "Holy War" to "save the tomb of Christ from the heathen"
1096 -During the People's Crusade (as in all official nine Crusades) Jews are killed en route
1101 - Crusade of 1101
1144 - First "Blood Libel" used against Jews in England
1145 -Second Crusade (actually the only successful one, when knights' horses were knee deep in blood after the conquest of Jerusalem)
1189 - Third Crusade
1193 - Northern Crusade
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