
Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages
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The First Crusade - A Great Success
The pope's speech calling for a crusade in ten 95 was met with an enormous outpouring of popular enthusiasm. Thousands of people immediately took up the cross, putfixed cross figures to their clothes and pledged themselves to go on this armed pilgrimage to jerusalem. The crusaders successfully captured a large strip of territory running from the byzantine empire in asia minor, down through syria and palestine and all the way to jer Jerusalem.
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