Most of the lands conquered by Muslim armies were not for the sake of spreading Islam. They were mostly defensive wars. In some cases the local people invited the Muslims to liberate them from the yoke of the dictatorial rules of their cruel kings. As a matter of fact no nation should rule another nation without her will. All nations and peoples should live peacefully respecting the sovereignty of others. No country should invade the lands of others.
A lot of French soldiers were killed and much of France's land was devastated from the war.
They wanted to conquer America because they thought the Red Indians there were dumb and couldn't defend themselves while they could. America also had a lot of resources like bison for food, land for farming, forest for development, large river systems and etc. It was also believed it was a good trading spot for fellow trespassers like merchants and pirates. It was economically good for the center of the trading routes around the world and as it was large they thought it could be easy to spread their people around it as space was running out in England. They also had the ambition to conquer all the places in sight and to make or establish a better world for their people.
I think the Ottoman Empire did because the Silk Road, which was the main trade route between Europe and Asia, ran through their land. So they could shut it down by putting their sodiers on the Silk Road, which they did. But if you just want the answer, it was the Ottoman Empire.
Try to gain more land.
They wanted Columbus to discover new lands for them to conquer and colonize and beat Portugal in the race to the east. The also wanted riches from these newly found lands such as spices, gold, silver, cotton etc
Its Muslim conquerors.
Because they didn't want nobody in their land.
Answer 1The Holy LandAnswer 2While Answer 1 may have been correct 800-1000 years ago, it is no longer correct. This is especially true since Israel (a Jewish State) controls much of the Holy Land. There is no specific piece of land that Christians want that Muslims have. Christians want Islamic Countries to legalize proselytization of non-Islamic faiths and equalize the treatment of non-Muslims. This is what the Muslims control that Christians would like the power to reverse.
this was because he wanted more land as well as power oer many countries
The scralings where what most people believe are the Native Americans. The Natives didn't want the vikings on there land and Vikings didn't want thhem because they wanted to conquer there land
Saint Philip did not want to conquer Italy and was in no position to do so.
Because there was much gold there to find.
Because there was much gold there to find.
Dual purpose wealth & power religion is power They believed it was a sacred place
The Pope wanted the crusaders to drive the Muslims out of the Holy Land and return control to Christians.
Many people think of it as a holy place, the Jews and Muslims want it really badly. which causes fighting. the Muslims think it is their land and it's not fair that the Jews got it. and the Jews want to keep it because it is where they want to build their temple for when the mesiah comes.
The Seljuk Turks- they were Muslims that took over the "Holy Land" - Jerusalem.