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It’s interesting to use crusade in that fashion. The origins of the Christian crusades were to help free lands with still largely Christian populations from Muslim conquerors. It wasn’t to spread Christianity.

Now the crusade’s definitely went awry and became an excuse for Venetians and others to take land and power. Especially by the fourth crusade and sacking of Constantinople, etc.




Southern France was largely Christian yet Albigensian Crusade was a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade


Depends which crusades. The Baltic Crusades definitively were to spread Christianity.




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