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- Crusades | Definition, History, Map, Significance, Legacy . . .
Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion
- Crusades - Wikipedia
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding territories from Muslim rule
- Crusades - World History Encyclopedia
The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains There were eight major official crusades between 1095 and 1270, as well as many more unofficial ones
- The Crusades: Definition, Religious Wars Facts | HISTORY
Though Pope Innocent III called for a new Crusade in 1198, power struggles within and between Europe and Byzantium drove the Crusaders to divert their mission in order to topple the reigning
- CRUSADE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CRUSADE is any of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to win the Holy Land from the Muslims
- The Crusades: A Complete History | History Today
During the last four decades the Crusades have become one of the most dynamic areas of historical enquiry, which points to an increasing curiosity to understand and interpret these extraordinary events What persuaded people in the Christian West to want to recapture Jerusalem?
- What Were The Crusades? - History Hit
Pope Urban saw a crusade as the solution to both these problems: diverting military aggression against an enemy of Christendom, in an expedition led by the papacy The crusade would elevate papal authority and win back the Holy Land for the Christians
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