IS IT TRUE THAT THE CRUSADES WERE A RESPONSE?

IS IT TRUE THAT THE CRUSADES WERE A RESPONSE?
Blake Neff says that it was definitely a response arriving after hundreds of years of Christianity being "rolled back by a tide of Islamic conquest."

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