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What was the big incentive that the Pope promised crusaders in order to get them to go?

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In 1095, he promised participants spiritual reward during a church council in Clermont, France. The expedition led to the founding of four crusader states in Syria and Palestine and inspired further military endeavours and popular movements, now known collectively as crusades.

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