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IOTL, Alexius's call to the west for expert knights to help fight the Seljuks was answered with a huge unruly crusader army, what happens if, instead, he gets exactly what he hoped for? Long-term the crusades eventually doomed the Byzantine empire but without the massive distraction to the muslim world, will the Byzantines be able to hold on any longer than IOTL? How will the lack of a crusade effect Alexius's reconquest of Anatolia?
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