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An extraordinarily ill-advised (and ill-fated) purported episode during the Crusades involved approximately 50,000 individuals from France and Germany setting out to recapture Palestine in the year 1212. Per this woeful event’s common name (which was borrowed by Kurt Vonnegut in the subtitle to Slaughterhouse-Five), most of these 50,000 individuals were what?

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Children

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One of the most important documents in Western Civilization, the Magna Carta was written in what language?

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Latin