I would say id depends if you care about people any color, or size.
There was no '' west '' but people from the south considered it a northern problem. Because in 1812 in American '' west '' only reached as far as the Mississippi River
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The term refers especially to the Eastern Mediterranean campaigns in the period between 1095 and 1271 that had the objective of conquering the Holy Land from Islamic rule.