hazelbark wrote:marioslaz wrote:
A little exaggerated to speak about world conquer, since in southern Italy arrived just 200 men

Enough to give the birth to a dynasty, but a little few to conquer even just Italy

Although I think it was fewer than that that bascially did conquer sicily?
Yes one of the stunning points in history how so few have such a dramatic impact.
200 were the knights, if I remember well. The army was about 500 (I found in wikipedia). They free Sicilia from Arabs, but they reigned over southern Italy with a population of Christians and Muslims that lived in peace. This tradition was continued by Federico II di Svevia (Stupor Mundi) who reigned over a population of Christians, Muslims and Jews and all lived in peace in Southern Italy (Sicilia e Puglia above all) and all worshipped their God. It seems we would have needing of a Federico II in our time.