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…showed last 75 words of 1150 total…was for religious growth but actually, it's religiously covering up the political reasons of the Crusades. It was political in religious ways, and religious in political ways. It was for sure the beginning of Europe's looking outside, using their power and wealth to expand their territories and wealth for economic and political reasons, using religion as an excuse. This pattern did and will go on for hundreds of years in Europe and throughout the world.