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crusades  

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  • Crusades were Christian military expeditions in the Middle Ages organized in Europe and promoted by the papacy, initially to recover formerly Christian territories under Muslim occupation in the eastern Mediterranean. They were soon directed to other regions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Crusades]

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