A1: Pope Urban II, rival of Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, Alexius approached the pope in hopes he would aid in raising the army on his behalf. To deal with the current religious issues the pope called upon a council in France one of the tasks being freeing the Holy Land from Muslim Turks. Abbots, kings, lords, bishops attended to help free the Holy Land the enthusiastic response encouraged the couch to form an army and head over to Jerusalem. Their mission was to be a crusade, the army was promised by the pope whoever died during their quest would go to heaven directly after passing. (Acrobatiq, 2017)

A2: A few of the first people who responded to the popes want for a crusade were preacher that were very popular at the time, Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, whom...