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Capture Jerusalem and political power--Pope Urban II wanted Catholicism to control a city this important around the world. Capture Jerusalem and political power--Pope Urban II wanted Catholicism to control a city this important around the world.

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The objective of the crusades to capture the holy land from the Saracens and to spread Christianity.

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The Seljuk Turks took control of Jerusalem (the Christian's Holy Land) and the European Christians wanted it back, so they decided to form the crusades.

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The main objective was to spread Christianity and try to take back the Holy Lands( Jerusalem). They had 8 crusades and all of them had about the same military objective as the first one.

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to gain control of the Holy Land

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