Show two centuries of crusades the objects of the religious wars unas called the crusades were originally to insure the safety of pilgrims visiting the holy sepulchre and to set up christian rule in palestine later on the attack attach was directed against egypt and even constantinople and in the fourteenth century tile conquests of the ottoman turks turned crusading into a defensive movement it Is usual to speak of the crusades as six or seven lo in number dumber but actually the movement was continuous tor for over two centuries hardly a decade passing without one or more expeditions |