Rise And Fall Of Christendom

With the fall of the Roman Empire the Catholic Church took over leading to a huge rise in the Christian religion. With the Catholic Church now in power resulted in more people practicing the Christian religion, thus creating what is and was known as Christendom. The rise and evolution of Christendom was a response to factors shared by many other civilizations. Many of the factors were that Christendom has many wars, major changes in the rulers, some successes and a couple failures. This had all led to the evolution of Christendom.

The successes of Christendom really happened because of the result to the fall of the Roman Empire, which is when the Catholic Church took over. The bible and art played a big role in the christian community. The bible,and the ten commandments,is what a large majority of the people had used as guidelines on how they should live and treat people.The art played a big role by allowing the people to experience a variety of cultures and art had been a major thing that was traded. This had helped spread the christian religion. Another thing that …show more content…
The crusades were a series of gruesome wars that were fought between the Muslims, Christians, and the Jews over Jerusalem which is to be known in as the holy land for all three religions.The Crusaders, whom were the christians that were fighting in the wars, had won the first crusade and were really happy about that, but a couple of years later another war had broken out over Jerusalem again thus being called the second crusade. Tho the Christians had lost they didn't give up and led themselves back into another war. This next war that the crusaders were fighting in was called the Third Crusade. Many events had happened in this horrifying crusade. one of the leaders named Barbarossa had died in this war. This event had been one of the many factors which had led the Christians to gain power back over