History A-Level
The origins of holy war
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Growing papal power established the ideological foundation for the Pope to mobilise European nobility, paving the way for the First Crusade.
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- 1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204 – The origins of conflict and the First Crusade, c1071–c1099 (AQA A-Level)
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