The Crusades were a series of wars that were either started by, or sanctioned by, the Catholic church, and served a variety of purposes. The most well-known crusades were the crusades to recapture Israel from its Muslim occupiers, who had taken the land from the Christian Byzantines. Other crusades were to wage war upon pagans who had done nothing to harm the Roman Catholics and Gnostic-influenced Christian sects, who had also not harmed their attackers.
Thousands of people died in these battles. Also civilians were massacred on more than one occasion. [1] The crusades succeeded in establishing christian territory in and around Israel, which was held for a few hundred years before being re-conquered by the muslims.
The Crusades were a series of wars started over who had the better God (imaginary friend).
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