Chapter 10

Chapter 10 basically talked about Christianity and the spread of it throughout the world. Christianity has had such a major impact in the world. Of course, it is more prominent more in some parts than others. Take Asia for example. Asia has their own set of beliefs already. So when Christianity came around, not a lot of people were thrilled to convert. A paragraph in the book describes perfectly how people did not react well to Christianity. The book states that,"When expanding Muslim forces took control of Jerusalem in 638 and subsequently constructed the Muslim shrine known as the Dome of the Rock, that precise location  had long ben regarded as sacred. To Jews, it contained the stone on which Abraham prepared to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God, and it was the site of the first two Jewish temples. To Christians, it was a place that Jesus had visited as a youngster to converse with learned teachers and later to drive out the moneychangers. Thus, when the Umayyd caliph Abd al-Malik ordered a new construction on that site, he was appropriating for Islam both Jewish and Christian legacies. But he was also demonstrating the victorious arrival of a new faith and announcing to Christians and Jews that 'the Islamic state was here to stay.'" As time went on, Christianity made its way to the rest of the world like Africa, the Byzantine empire, Russia, and Western Europe. Because of Christianity, lots of beautiful buildings and churches like the Chapel of Notre Dame were built. Despite Christianity forcing its way into the lives of people, I think that it is very important and influential on the world.