Ridley Scott's three movies, "Gladiator", "Black Hawk Down" and most recently "The Kingdom of Heaven" explore the morality and identity of warriors. They do so in exotic landscapes and settings that emphasize the confrontation with danger as external and frequently unknowable and political violence as something that has complicated geographies.

The Crusades were a pretty violent time for Europe and the Middle East. Tragically, though, the violence isn't the only thing that would kill you if you lived during the Crusades. Here's why you would never survive the Crusades.