During the Crusades, Peter the Hermit is credited with recruiting 30,000 peasants and poor townspeople to volunteer as crusaders. Peter the Hermit was a priest of Amiens and is widely credited by historians of today as being one of the key leaders of the first Crusade.
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Jamestown succeeded economically by planting and selling tobaccos.
Initially the people that came to start a colony in Jamestown had to go through
a lot of hardship as the water was not good and there were a lot of mosquitoes.
The men fell sick and did not find enough food to eat. Later they started
planting tobacco plants and became rich by exporting them to England. By the
year 1675 Jamestown exported almost ten million pounds of tobacco each year.