Pope Urban II (n.)
letter to
Christian (n.)
Christians
Clermont in which he argued that
This was the start of
East called
Holy Land (n.)
In 1096, because he was worried that a group of Muslims called the Seljuk Turks would invade his empire, Alexis I, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire, sent a
asking for help from the Roman Catholic Church. In response, the pope gathered the clergy and gave a speech at the Council of
Muslim (n.)
Muslims
should travel to the
The Crusades (n.)
to take it back from the
a series of wars that continued into the 1200s.
Crusader (n.)
Crusaders
Jerusalem (n.)
who had controlled it since the 600s.
left Europe headed for the holiest city in the Middle
and were successful in conquering it initially, though it was won back by Muslims by the end of the wars.
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