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Why did Christians conduct the First Crusade?

A. to remove Saladin from power

B. to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land

C. to destroy Constantinople

D. to protect Rome from Muslim invaders

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Answer:

to stop the expansion of Muslim states, to reclaim for Christianity the Holy Land in the Middle East, and to recapture territories that had formerly been Christian.

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