1. The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
2. Pope Urban ll, during 1096 - 1099, in Anatolia, Near East, and Levant.
3. Alexius I Komnenoi (I don’t have a why)
4. Conquering; when Alexius I Komnenoi asked the Pope for help he meant it to reconquer the Byzantine lands.
He also saw the opportunity to unity Christianity as a whole.
5. 8 crusades
