What started the Crusades in the Middle Ages?
        
        
     
    
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        Pope Urban II made a request for the recapture of Jerusalem which was captured by Islamic forces in return for indulgence
        
        
     
    
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        Also conquered as a part of the Crusades were the other Muslin kingdoms in Spain, Italy and Portugal.