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Originally Posted by Qtx
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Actually the crusades started as a land grab, the expansionist Seljuk Turks were threatening constantinople who appealed for help and before you say from fellow Christians, the orthodox byzantines were excommunicated from Rome, religion was used to whip the masses up without doubt and continued the conflict far longer than it should have but like most wars land, resources and ambition were just as much at the heart of it as religion and imo anyone who dismisses these additional factors simply to say "it was all about religion" clearly has an agenda or is a bit ignorant of what happened.