Based on chapter 8 and Pope Urban's speech found here please explore the following questions in about 450 words

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Based on chapter 8 and Pope Urban's speech found here please explore the following questions in about 450 words.

Speeches are complex primary sources. You always want to think about the crowd to explain why the message is presented a certain way. While historians focus on economic causes as the catalyst for the crusades, this is not the driving reason that Pope Urban gives when he calls on the kings of Europe to supply him with troops to march to the Holy Land. Read through the multiple versions of this speech as they were recorded and consider the following. Why is it that Urban is telling his audience that this war is necessary? What can we conclude about papal power in the Middle Ages from reading these sources? And lastly, comment on the significance of the different messages recorded in these unique versions of his speech.