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- The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
- It was the war between Muslims and Christians.
- The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
- Their primary objectives were 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. Many participants also believed that undertaking what they saw as holy war was a means of redemption and a way of achieving expiation of sins.