13) although crusading continued throughout the 14th century, the crusade is the last one we’ll focus on, because it was the crazy one. the venetians built ships, but then only 11,000 crusaders actually made it down to venice, and there wasn’t enough money to pay for those boats, so the venetians made the crusaders a deal: us capture the rebellious city of zara, and we’ll ferry you to anatolia. this was a smidge problematic, crusading-wise, because zara was a christian city, but the crusaders agreed to , resulting in the pope both them and the venetians.14)  later the excommunicated crusaders fought for the emperor who failed to pay them so the crusaders decided to the byzantine empire…but never reclaimed any of the holy land. the fourth crusade pretty much doomed the byzantine empire, which never really recovered. constantinople, a shadow of its former self, was conquered by the in 1453.15)  so ultimately the crusades were a total failure at establishing christian kingdoms in the holy land long term. and with the coming of the the region remained solidly muslim, as it is (mostly) is today.