Immediately, a spectacular wave of religiosity and sense of duty spread for each castle, manor or house, be noble, plebeian, peasant or priest. The explosion of faith motivated in just weeks, thousands of men, women and children, appeared before their owners to participate. Neither the papal recommendation participate only warriors could not stop the waves of volunteers from all over Europe. Entire families, soldiers, mercenaries, opportunists, lawyers, artisans, farmers and a large etcetera, started to Byzantium to start from there the issue. Such was the interest aroused, which had to be banned from the nobles of many people go for not decapitating the political power of their reigns. The human tide believers to the most hallucinating underestimated calculation of Urban II, who promised to respect the property of the Crusaders on their return. However, many liquidated its assets because the certainty of a return, to such an enterprise was guarded prognosis.
Antioquia to the campaign. Internal rivalries. Meanwhile the Muslims, who have ignored what was happening in the West, had virtually surrounded by Christendom in an empire that even today, stretching from the Atlantic and western Africa to the Zagros Mountains (Iran), including in the domains North and the Horn of Africa, the Levant, Mesopotamia and the entire Arabian Peninsula. United by faith in Muhammad, the prophet and preferred maximum of Allah (God) unlike the Christians, the unity of this people went beyond religion was in their struggle through the desert, considerable faith, absolute reverence the Koran (holy book), and existential orientation towards Mecca (Muhammad's birthplace.) to fight began, as that paragraph above, with the failed attempt of Peter the Hermit and his Crusade. Its leader, bringing together the remnants, the bulk of troops waited cross gathered between November 1096 and May 1097 in Rome (where Urban II ended its disputes with the Antipope Clement III) and then in Constantinople, to finally go Nicaea now the capital of the Sultanate of Rum and former city of Byzantium. The Crusade of the princes was composed of a series of armed troops mainly from d, a specialist in history, with extensive experience in research on global wars and conflicts. audiolibrosespanol. com / history