Chapter 10 Christianity

Although Christianity is popular in western civilizations today (the Americas) a majority of the religion resides in eastern civilizations such as  Asia and Africa, I found that interesting due to the fact the Europe was the main adopter of the Christian religion. In Africa and Asia, Christianity was prominent, but with the adoption of certain ideas come different interpretations from different people and groups. Surprisingly there are multitudes of denominations of the Christian faith and that leads to conflict and contoversy everywhere. While they were seen in these areas they also werent the main religion. Most places like the Middle East already had and established religion or practice embedded into their culture. So how was it able to spread? Especially since Rome the home of Christianity ceases to exist the way it once did. The book doesnt really explain how it happend but it talks about how Western Rome rebuilt itself after its collapse. With no central government western europe was succeotable to conquest and became the victim to many invasions. Even with this the bounce back in the New Age of european civilization was immense. They expanded bringing Christianity with them and grew into independent states which had their own distinct languages and cultures. Monarchs held rule over these nations and the upbringing of urbanization helped women find job oppotunities. While the western rome empire was coming back the eastern part of the Roman empire was fending off Arab and turkish invasions. To answer the question from earlier, the Crusades allowed for the expansion of Christianity as the europeans and other nations fought to gain control of the holy ground they claim as their own.