Answer:
When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I made a special appeal to Urban for help. This was not the first appeal of its kind, but it came at an important time for Urban. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, Urban seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks.
Explanation:
I mean which lands? I'm not a Muslim but I'm Indian. Actually Europeans tried to control the lands that are very rich and that's what Asia is....the land of everything.
<span>New York (City) and Philadelphia</span>
