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European Christian Perception Of The Crusades

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European Christians perceive the Crusades in a few different ways depending on what region of Europe that they were located in. For example, at the very beginning in 1095, Pope Urban gave a sermon in France urging all of his Christian brothers to fight to protect their land and faith from the Heathens. Now the term Heathens were used as a tem to define non-Christians, but at the time it was specific to Muslims. The struggle between the Christians mainly took part in the Orient, which was the Asia Minor or present day Greece and Turkey. Furthermore, the Christians in Europe perceived the Crusades differently in France than if they were in the Asia Minor, due to the fact that one group had direct contact with the war and others had more of an

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