What is the main reason Pope Urban II called for the first Crusade in 1095 to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks?
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To get those warring knights out of europe and to stop them from causing trouble.
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+4 The real reasons behind the various early medieval intrigues of Europe are not always easy to find. Urban's initial reaction was as a response to Alexius of Constantinople's request for military aid. Whether Urban simply over-reacted is hard to say but certainly Alexius did not intend for a huge Christian army to land on his doorstep. . Urban probably saw the goal of liberating the holy city from the hands of the Muslims as a righteous one and it also had the additional benefitof getting rid of a load of the most dangerous knights and nobles of Europe and setting them on the Middle Eastern Muslims rather than each other or indeed on himself.
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The same reason that Bush called on our military to oust the Tali ban...Islamic Militants attacking Christians
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