@rapinsneako@Umberto179279@maxsoy1925@CatholicReviva Crusades were military religious campaigns called for by the pope, the reconquista was fought mosly because the hispanics to get their land back, the religious conversion was not the primary objective
@BadGeef Essentialy sacrificing security in exchange for shedding serfdom. The Cossacks you were talking about were created with the Black Sea Cossack Host, which was created and moved to the Kuban region after the destruction of the Zaporizhan Host in the 18th century.