The Crusades

All the council of Clermont in 1095 Pope urban incited Bishops and nobles to action. “From Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople comes a grievous report He began.” “An accursed face… has violently entered the land of the Christians and depopulated them by pillage and fire. Pope urban then called for crusades to free the holy land. The main reasons for the Europeans joining the crusades was that many were influenced by Holy preachers, other hoped to win wealth and land, and some crusaders sought to escape the troubles of home.
Holy preachers were one of the main reason Europeans joined the crusades to help expel the Seljuk’s from the Christian land. For example, Holy preachers helped influence Europeans to join the crusade, because they had the power of sending messages from god. When they gave the message of god willing it. It allows...