The first crusade was precipitated when the byzantine emperor sent messengers to the pope to plead for mercenary troops to combat the turks, but instead pope urban ii issued a general call to arms to free jerusalem. a) trueb) false

It's TRUE

Explanation:

It was a political attempt to recover the Papal influence in the Eastern Empire, and at the same time, to retake the Holy Land for the Christians. Since the East-West Schism in 1053, the Church was separated and two powers dispute their influence in the Christian World (the Pope in Rome and the Bishop in Constantinople). At the same time, Jerusalem was under control of the Turks, and the pilgrims were massacred. It was an attempt to retake both influential locations for Christianity.

brainliest means the answer that is best and you found it very

if you ask any question and 2 persons gave you answer for your question and the answer of one person you liked the most and found it most the we can mark it as brainliest . at the side of every person's answer an option of brainliet then we can appericiate the user by marking it as brainlist

if someone marks our answer as brainliest then we can get ranks also

done.