For this question the answer will be D.
They were looking for wealth.
They made many political allies.
They sought a new route to Asia.
They brought Spain great wealth.
They attracted a great deal of interest in Spain.
In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln stated his main goal for the nation was to "Preserve the Union" This remained Lincoln's main goal throughout the war. <span>
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Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their objectives were to check the spread of Islam, to retake control of the Holy Land in the eastern Mediterranean, to conquer pagan areas, and to recapture formerly Christian territories;