One of the crusades’s main goals was to recover Jerusalem, the Holy Land for Christianity (and other religions). Christians mainly went off to fight for control of this land (and stop the muslims from expanding) even though the other benefits included plundering and recapturing territories.
yeah exactly kind of messed up tbh i think they could have made treatys with the peaceful native americans to live together. and then the ones that were agressive well they could have been removed a little more peacfully