Blog Post #8

The Worlds of Christendom

Christendom is the worldwide body or society of Christians. As a religion, Christianity went through contractions and eventually expanded. It diminished in Asia and Africa but expanded in Western Europe and Russia. The cause of Christianity contractions in Asia and Africa is Islam. Islam was another monotheistic religion just like Christianity and it started in the Middle East. It spread across the Afro-Eurasian world, creating a powerful empire and the emergence of a cosmopolitan Islamic civilization. This left Europe as the principal center of the Christian faith. The expansion of Christian, by default, centered in Europe and Anatolia. After the Mediterranean frontier between the Islamic and Christians world's stabilized, the Muslim invasion into Christendom finally lifted. Within this space of time, the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe took place. The Byzantine empire built Christendom on the Roman past civilizations and continued. I learned that civilizations have contractions and expansions that sometimes made it possible for certain civilizations to remain standing. Although some civilizations may disappeared but there's a chance that another civilization can built on what they left behind and the world of the Christendom civilization showed proof of that.