The Roman Catholic Church orchestrated the battles during the crusades. The pope ordered Christian nations to defend the "Holy Land of Christianity", Jerusalem against the Muslim invaders. It was Pope Urban II who started the crusade from a "request" of a Byzantine king to defend his empire against the Turks.
The statement which describes a result of the Spanish-American War was that a) the United States acquired territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean. This was because of the Treaty of Paris which was signed in 1898 where negotiations were made for the United States to gain temporary control over Cuba and the ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines was given from Spain to the United States. In return, the United States had to pay a lump sum to Spain to gain acess to the Philippines.
False, Great Britan owned many empires across the world, stemming the phrase.
