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What gave people a will to fight in the first Crusade?

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The Church specifically the pope gave orders to the people to fight in the first crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!”.
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