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November 2 - Chapter 10

Christianity came to provide a measure of cultural commonality for the diverse people of the western Eurasia. Many embraced in the form the teaching of Jesus.  As a religion, Christianity contracted sharply in Asia and Africa even as it expands in Western Europe and Russia. In some regions, other religions could co-exist but they just had to pay a tax. Christianity spread to numerous places for example like Africa. Byzantine Empire conquered lands and expanded. Although Christianity was based on one figure there was disagreement and it split into different paths with their own teachings. The most significant expansion of Orthodox Christianity occurred among the Slavic people of Russian and Ukraine. As civilization evolved in the West, they were clearly less developed in comparison to Byzantium, China, India. After reading this chapter, I learned a lot of things about empires and how there was a convergence in Christianity. I would have thought hey Western civilization would be more developed than the others like the Byzantium, but I was wrong. 

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