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What were the factors that led Pope Urban II to call for a Crusade?

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united kingdom it was called
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On 27 November 1095, Pope Urban II makesperhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus volt!"
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