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what are the main reason for the crusades​

Answer 1

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were to liberate Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule. Concurrent military activities in the Iberian Peninsula against Moors (the Reconquista) and in northern Europe against pagan Slavic tribes (the Northern Crusades) also became known as crusades. Through the 15th century, other church-sanctioned crusades were fought against heretical Christian sects, against the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, to combat paganism and heresy, and for political reasons. Unsanctioned by the church, Popular Crusades of ordinary citizens were also frequent. Beginning with the First Crusade which resulted in the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, dozens of Crusades were fought, providing a focal point of European history for centuries.

Answer 2

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Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the 11th century, that were organized by Western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their objectives were to check the spread of Islam, to retake control of the holy land in the Eastern Mediterranean, to conquer pagan areas, add to recapture formerly Christian territories ; they were seen by many of the participants as a mean of redemption and expansion for sins. Between 1095, when the first crusade was launched, and 1291, when the latin and Christians were finally expelled from thier Kingdom in Syria, there were numerous expeditions, to the holy land, to spain, and even to the Baltic; the crusades, continued after several centuries after 1291. Crusading declined rapidly during the 16th century with the advent of the protestant reformation and the decline of papal authority

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