URGENT PLEASE ANSWER ASAP
why did Alexius write this letter?. . .the most sacred empire of the Greek Christians is being sorely distressed by . . . the Turks, who daily ravage it. . . The holy places they desecrate and destroy in numberless ways . . .lest you should lose the kingdom of the Christians . . . act while you still have time, and then you will have not doom, but a reward in heaven.