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All of this is false.
Explanation:
The crusades were launched by Christian Europe to take away control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim hands. Muslims never conquered two-thirds of Christian lands, and they never defeated the whole Christianity.
it used the war bonds from the citizens
Marco Polo helped European ideas about China develop was that he wrote many books and accounts of his travels to the East, and also brought back many artifacts for Europeans to observe.
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The Ottoman Empire was the most religiously diverse empire in Europe and Asia. Macedonia, the southernmost Balkan regions and Asia Minor, which formed historically and in the minds of late Ottoman elites the territorial core of the empire, housed large groups of Christians and a significant number of Jews. Religious diversity characterized the core regions of the Islamic empire. Struck by an existential crisis beginning in the late 18th century, the Ottoman state undertook reforms, declared the equality of its subjects, willingly maintained its diversity and even institutionalised the cultural and religious autonomies which it had given its Christian and Jewish communities. When the Ottoman state failed to defend its territory and sovereignty, the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the revolutionary rulers who gained power in a coup, finally decided on a program of national homogenization in Asia Minor which it carried out in 1914-1918. The CUP classified the Ottoman populations and dealt with them through resettlement, dispersion, expulsion and destruction – depending on the populations' assimilability into a Turko-Muslim nation in the Anatolian core. It judged the Muslims, in particular the Kurds, assimilable, but the Christian groups non-assimilable.
Explanation:
Answer: Because it would make political parties more powerful, which would also lead to corruption. The opponents were afraid someone without the correct knowledge or attitude would end up in a position of high power.