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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77
The quest for relics was the main reason for the crusades and the eventual middle beast Muslim Judio Christian problems...
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Wow, I'm a graduate student studying history and I've never heard that....sounds like you've been reading too many novels. The first crusade was a result of Emperor Alexius I requesting help from the Pope because Byzantine pilgrims were being mistreated by the Seljuk Turks (who controlled Jerusalem). Other reasons include political friction between Turkish and southern European nations. Relics really didn't have anything to do with the start of the crusades, afterall there were Christians in Jerusalem before the crusades who would have access to relics there. There would be no need to start a religious war to claim relics they already had access to. Sorry for the history lesson...
