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What prompted the cresades?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The first crusade was started when the Turks began to invade parts of the Byzantine empire, and the emperor of Byzantine, Alexius I, asked Pope Urban II in March of 1095 to send an army to help. The pope told all the men in Europe that if they went to the Middle East and drove the Turks back, that God would forgive all their sins and they would go to heaven no matter what.

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13y ago

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