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Why did the Catholic Church want to take back the Holy Land from the Muslims? To take territory away from the Byzantine Empire and improve relations with Jews and Muslims To make it easier for Christians to travel there and to reintroduce Christianity to the Middle East To destroy the center of Islam and introduce Christianity to people who had never known of Jesus

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Also the Ayyubids prior had killed and burned a large quantity of Christendom in the levant and the Pope knew he had to unite the Kingdoms in Europe to stand a chance to the Islamic Caliphates.

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