One thing that caught my eye in chapter 10 was map 10.4. In this map it showed where the catholic christians were, the orthodox christians, the muslims, and the pagans were. It also showed the crusades but this wasn’t what I really noticed. I found it interesting that west was the catholics then to the east of them was the orthodox christians, and then the muslims. I found it interesting that it wasn’t all mixed through, it followed a west to east pattern. I also found it interesting that at this time Russia was predominantly orthodox christian, I had just never known that before reading this book. Also interesting to me was how reason and faith began to contradict each other, they did not go hand in hand. Students in a monastic school in France asked their teacher to provide proof for the existence of God based solely on reason, and thus the divide began. Overall learning about how christianity spread in this chapter was interesting.
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