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religious war
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Religious war
A
religious war
or
holy war
is a
war
primarily caused or justified by differences in
religion
. The account of the
conquest
of
Canaan
by the
Israelites
in the
Book of Joshua
, the
Muslim
conquests
of the 7th and 8th centuries, and the
Christian
Crusades
(11th to 13th centuries) and
Wars of Religion
(16th and 17th centuries) are the classic examples but a religious aspect has been part of warfare as early as the battles of the
Mesopotamian
city-states
.
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