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
.
