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> . They also had large populations
Anatolia was depopulated, Iran depopulated after tamerlane, north africa was never that populated to begin with same case with most of arabia save for syria and iraq regions.
Only notable populated areas were iran, and fertile crescent area.
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ERE being have to call crusaders to save her ass was already an effective mark of her dying nature. Before 4th crusade it was getting roflstomped left and right even with Komnenos dynasty trying to restore.
4th crusade was not reason why ERE fall it was in fact result of the fall. ERE never able to reqonquered chuknks of land conquered by Seljuks but they were able to retake Constantinople, so the claiming it was reason to downfall is vastly overestimating also quite eurocentric.