Answer: Crusades should not be viewed as colonization or colonization projects even though there are some points in common. Crusades had as a main objective to conquer Palestine, temple of God from the hands of non-Christians/muslims.
Explanation:
at the same time it was this activity, this project that could unite Christian West (all the kings and kingdoms under the leading ideology of medieval papacy) and to give it Christian religion as a basis and fundament of medieval West.