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Why did pope urban 11 encourage Christian’s to began a series of war against Muslims

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Pope Urban II had encouraged the Christians to began a series of war against the Muslims due to wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, he had the choice to Christian Europe under him as he fought to take over the Holy Land from the Turks.
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he did this because he wanted to re-establish papacy ruling
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