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middle ages, with clerical elites striving, only sometimes successfully, to understand and channel this power into familiar paths. crusades the crusades were, in some aspects, europe's defense against islamic expansion and aggression. these armed pilgrimages were originally intended to liberate jerusalem
from muslim control. jerusalem was part of the muslim possessions, won during a rapid military expansion in the th century through the near east, northern africa, and anatolia (in modern turkey). in the early eleventh century, christian access to its most holy site, the church of the holy sepulcher...
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