Chapter 10

Christianity becomes a European phenomenon for more than a thousand years. This religion expanded out to Western Europe and Russia. It spread extremely quickly just like the Islam religion did. Syria and Persia had a more concentrated population that were christians. There were Christian leaders in certain places that fought to make sure that they could be given the right to practice their religion they would pay to practice in private with a tax. Some Christians were forced to wear clothes that made them look different. Some of their churches were even burned down, and they had their villages destroyed. In Africa they were defensive about the spread of Islam. They did not really agree on expanding it. In Egypt Christianity was their religion. Later on some Egyptians converted to Islam. A minority of christians still existed in the area even though it was beginning to become a Arab and Muslim country. The contractions of these countries made Europe the center of Christendom. The muslims had a threat in the heartland of Christendom. With the seperation of east and west this launched a division with christendom and has lasted many centuries. The western part collapsed and the other still stands. It was lost to Byzantium. There were differences regarding language. The church still went with Latin and also the elite people the Byzantine empire preferred Greek instead. They continued this language through education. The Byzantine empire played a key role in the trade throughout Eurasia. In regards to Western Europes political life Rome had a population of 1 million at its peak but then declined to 10,000. Since no one took care of the buildings they collapsed just like the population in Rome. The trade in Italy was not successful anymore. This was the collapse of the empire, 476.

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