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Why is it such popular opinion that the First Crusade was launched as either an unwarranted act of Christian Aggression or Christian knights banning together to take back the holy land, when really it was the Byzantine Empire taking back their territory to start with.

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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