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The Byzantine Empire begins to diminish with the spread of Islam, what event united Western

Europe with the Byzantine Empire in 1095 against the Islamic Caliphate?

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Answer:In November 1095, at the Council of Clermont in southern France, the Pope called on Western Christians to take up arms to aid the Byzantines and recapture the Holy Land from Muslim control. This marked the beginning of the Crusades.

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