Chapter 15


  • Two Cultural Standards started spreading during the 21 century. The first was of Christianity to Asians, Africans, and Native Americans. The second was about early science, being against Christianity.
  • Christianity was established solidly in the Americas and the Phillippines; while Siberia, China, Japan, and India becoming Islamic.
  • In 1500, Christendom stretched from Spain and England in the West to Russia in the east, with small communities of various kinds in Egypt, Ethiopia, southern India, and Central Asia.
  • The Christain World Divided between the Roman Catholics of Western and Central Europe and the Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe and Russia. 
  • Early 16th Century the Protestant Reformation shattered the unity of Roman Catholic Christianity.
  • Christianity motivated European political and economic expansion also benefited from it.
  • Missionaries had their greatest success in Spanish America and in the Philippines, areas that shared two critical elements beyond their colonization by Spain.

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