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Are you sure? I thought that it was about some hottie named Helen ... No matter - we can safely assume that whatever horses there are in the City, these are two thousand years better :) Besides horseflesh itself there is the very concept of horseback fighting, tack etc.

Oh, yes, with 1000-1500 year drift UT Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Arabic, Latin or Armenian are definitely not intelligible. Nevertheless they are not starting from zero, as they would be with Etruscan, Turkish, Hungarian, Malay or Chinese. An interesting titbit I noticed on wiki - Moslems were...

Actually the Uties would know c 200BC Greek. The Septuagint, i.e. the Bible translated into Greek by Jews no longer speaking Hebrew nor Aramaic, is used by the Greek Orthodox even today, and apparently understandable. Off topic - I once read a blog by a Greek (b 1970? 1980?) who tested his...

Thinking about this further ... Naturally, Jerusalem establishes a state around itself in order to be fed. But IMO additionally it will try to reach the sea. And pull a "yo-ho-ho a bottle of rum and a sailor's life fer me!" act, if simply to see with their own eyes how do Italy and France look...

I am not sure whether it was in Jerusalem at that time already. You'd have to check the TL. But indeed - Saladin getting Jerusalem without the Mosque of the Rock etc. but inhabited by a bunch of pagans (Hebrews were not monotheists yet) would be ... interesting :)

An interesting scenario from AH-com. Jerusalem stolen from under Salah ad-Din's nose and dumped into the Age of Judges (i.e. tribal caciques, or warbosses if you preffer), immediatelly pre United Kingdom. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1553/saladins-conquest-of-jerusalem-1187-ce/ If that...