Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25396609-20151009155051/@comment-25555436-20151010013628

It's something everyone does on instinct regarding fiction. Everything is expected to be just like our world unless stated otherwise.

In the case of works that happen in a different world, everything is expected to be similar to 1 or more things from our world in terms of aesthetics, culture, etc. Didn't someone here say that Atlas was like Russia or Germany?

Regarding events, history is expected to have happened exactly like ours unless stated otherwise and only in the areas where it's stated, and even then everything else is expected to have happened the same way. In the case of happening in a different world, events in said world are expected to have similarities with ours, like the FRR.

And of course, said world is expected to be just like our own unless stated otherwise. For example, if there was a world that wasn't Earth, you would expect it to be round, unless you are explicitly told or shown that it isn't round like Earth is.

It's done instinctively. The why, I do not know, but everyone does it. For example, people expect the gravity of Remnant to be like our world's gravity, even if there's no proof.

So yes, there may be an equivalent for the Crusades somewhere in Remnant, even if fictional.