Some might wonder why would I want to go to a Buddhist council in China, well why wouldn’t a person want to know about that fat guy statue or better known as Siddhartha Gautama, that sits in the Chinese …show more content…
On this day in history Pope Urban II made his influential speech of the Middle Ages, announcing the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims. With hundreds member of the clergy and noblemen gathered, Urban delivered an inspiring speech to all people encouraging the competition in them to fight the great umbrageous war to help their fellow Christians in the East and take back Jerusalem. Urban belittled and looked down on the Muslims, he at times overstressed stories of their anti-Christian acts, and promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ. Besides the reasoning of forgiving of sins, these Christians was the promise the chance to travel and make money, the desire to defend the Byzantine empire from the Turks, an opportunity for younger sons of European nobles to get new land in the Middle East,