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    The Crusades were religiously motivated military campaigns conducted between the 11th and 16th centuries primarily against Muslims in the Near East but also against pagans, heretics, and excommunicated peoples. They were undertaken for a mixture of religious, economic, and political reasons under the emblem of the cross, from which the term "crusade" is derived. Many crusaders were Frenchmen who called themselves "Franks," which Muslims used as a common term for Europeans.

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    The Crusades were religiously motivated military campaigns conducted between the 11th and 16th centuries primarily against Muslims in the Near East but also against pagans, heretics, and excommunicated peoples. They were undertaken for a mixture of religious, economic, and political reasons under the emblem of the cross, from which the term "crusade" is derived. Many crusaders were Frenchmen who called themselves "Franks," which Muslims used as a common term for Europeans.

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    The Crusades were religiously motivated military campaigns conducted between the 11th and 16th centuries primarily against Muslims in the Near East but also against pagans, heretics, and excommunicated peoples. They were undertaken for a mixture of religious, economic, and political reasons under the emblem of the cross, from which the term "crusade" is derived. Many crusaders were Frenchmen who called themselves "Franks," which Muslims used as a common term for Europeans.

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    The term "Crusade" is used to describe religiously motivated campaigns conducted between the 11th [a] and 16th centuries predominately but not exclusively against Muslims in the near east but also against pagans, heretics, and peoples under the ban of excommunicationfor a mixture of religious, [b] economic, and political reasons. Their emblem was the cross the term "crusade" is derived from the French term for taking up the cross. Many were from France and called themselves "Franks," [1] which became the common term used by Muslims. Europeans had historically called the occupants of the Holy Land Saracens, and used this in a negative sense throughout the Crusades and often into European history books into the 20th century.

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