Fill in the Blanks CrusadesOnline version A brief description of Crusades using key vocabulary. by Alfonso Poza 1 Crusades military expeditions , beginning in the late century , organized by western European . Their objectives were to the spread of Islam , to retake control of the Land in the eastern Mediterranean and to recapture formerly Christian ; they were seen by many of their participants as a means of redemption and expiation for . Crusades began in , when the First Crusade was launched , and ended in , when the Christians were finally expelled from their last in Syria .
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