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Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Pope's Call for a Concerted Crusade

The pope called for a massive, concerted expedition to the east in ten 95. It wasn't just to protect constantinople and the byzantines. But it also offered to possibly solve internal political problems within western europe. The divide between eastern and western christianity had been getting worse over the eleventh century.

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