Question

Which of the following is not a Crusade designed to reconquer the Holy Land?
A) Reconquista
B) Fourth Crusade
C) Children's Crusade
D) Third Crusade

Answer 1

Hint: The Crusades were a series of religious battles in the mediaeval period that were started, supported, and occasionally commanded by the Latin Church. The most well-known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291, which aimed to reclaim Jerusalem and its environs from Islamic dominion.

Complete answer:
In mediaeval Spain and Portugal, the Reconquista, or English Reconquest, was a series of campaigns by Christian nations to reclaim territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had taken over most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early eight era. Pope Innocent III called the Fourth Crusade, which was a Latin Christian armed expedition.

The expedition's stated goal was to retake the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem by first defeating Egypt's powerful Ayyubid Sultanate, which was at the time the strongest Muslim state in the world. The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade led by European Christians in 1212 to reclaim the Holy place from the Muslims.

The Reconquista did not become clearly religious until the Muslims' control in Spain had been broken. Following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid emperor Saladin in 1187, the leaders of the three most powerful realms of Western Christianity attempted to reconquer the Holy Land.

Reconquista is not a Crusade designed to reconquer the Holy Land. Therefore the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: The Holy Land, a region of the Middle East, is the most holy place on the planet. God, according to the great monotheistic faiths, entered into a relationship with the human race in this sacred location.Large swaths of modern-day Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and parts of Lebanon and Syria are referred to as the ‘Holy Land.'