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Why were they called crusades?

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Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of ...

Key people: Bohemond I; Conrad III; Edward I; Louis VII; Louis IX; Philippe de Mézièr...

Context: Council of Clermont

Participants: Christianity; Islam

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