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The Crusades started because someone said “it’s about principle,” and nobody asked which principle.

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The Crusades began in 1095, when Pope Urban II called for a campaign to take Jerusalem and aid the Byzantine Empire. They had religious, political and economic motives, not a single vague principle.

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