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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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Is There a Second Coming?

Pope's call for an expedition to retake jerusalem implied that the second coming could happen in 11 hundred. People began to speculate, while maybe a second coming is still possible once we have recaptured jerusalem and jer Jerusalem is once again ai ten 95 was actually very on moment to call for this expedition. With all this being said, it was still an enormous gambol for pope urban to call forthis expedition,. A, to a largely unknown, distant land with hundreds of miles of desert and mountains in between, and hostile territory, hostile armies  and somehow defeat the defending forces thousands of miles away.

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