Q: What were the Crusades?
A: The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars to gain and regain control of the Jerusalem and the Holy Land. They were all ordered by the Popes. The campaigns were all fought from 1096 until about two hundred years later.
Q: Were all the Crusades successful?
A: No. Some some did not accomplish the goal to capture the Holy City. Others were not even directed at the Middle East and Islam, but towards heretics and other groups against the Catholic church.
Q: What were important about the Crusades?
A: The Crusades were all ordered by the Pope and gave the him power over the king as well as his subjects. This power. Also, when Jerusalem was won over again by the Europeans, it showed what was happening outside of the Dark Ages in Europe and interested them of the world so different from theirs.
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