Chapter 10 Christendom

This chapter is important because it focused on Christendom. Christendom began in the Classical Era in year 0 when Jesus was born. He was seen as a threat to Romans because he had a lot of followers and they felt they were loosing control so they killed him. People had to hide while practicing Christianity in their homes. Eventually the Romans decided to make it the official religion. The problem with that was once it became the official religion the government had the control on how people could interpret the religion. People were not allowed to have their own interpretations.

It was interesting to read that Byzantium would say that the empire did not fall or collapse it just moved east to Constantinople. Vladimir was a prince in Russia who wanted to control people of different backgrounds. He "shopped" for religions and chose Eastern Orthodox as the religion to be practiced. A huge reason why he did not choose Islam was because Islam did not allow people to drink and that would not have gone over well with Russians.