Chapter Ten

It's been said that Europe somehow became the global center of Christianity, but that destiny was far from clear in 500 c.e. During this time only about one-third of the world's Christians lived in Europe, while the rest found there homes in various parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. All these different areas seemed to have follow different forms of Christianity such as Nestorianism.

Earlier Christian communities during this time of North Africa, Nubia, Central Asia, and western China had been taken away as these regions were introduced to other religious traditions like Islam, Buddhism, or Confucianism. Overall we are able to see how Christianity was the one religion that expanded the rest of the religious traditions in the world. Throughout this chapter it mainly focuses on the regions that became the center of Christianity which was Byzantium and Western Europe.