Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?
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The Crusade, the Pilgrimage
Word of the pilgrimage and the movement that the pope was calling for to retake jerusalem a spread like wildfire. The courses of enthusiasm ended up splitting into two basic streams. A great number of knightly recruits, of armed traind noblemen from France who took up the cross. On the other hand, you also get an outpouring of popular enthusiasm and self organized peasants and commoners joining the crusade movement.
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