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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom


00:01:36 1 Terminology
00:01:45 1.1 Etymology
00:03:25 1.2 Definitions
00:04:26 1.3 Related terms
00:06:41 2 History
00:06:50 2.1 Rise of Christendom
00:08:40 2.2 Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
00:13:18 2.3 Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
00:22:15 2.4 Reformation and Early Modern era
00:24:58 2.5 End of Christendom
00:27:30 3 Classical culture
00:31:04 3.1 Art and literature
00:31:13 3.1.1 Writings and poetry
00:31:56 3.1.2 Supplemental arts
00:32:43 3.1.3 Illumination
00:34:01 3.1.4 Iconography
00:36:53 3.1.5 Architecture
00:38:02 3.2 Philosophy
00:38:56 4 Christian civilization
00:39:06 4.1 Medieval conditions
00:41:35 4.2 Renaissance innovations
00:43:13 5 Demographics
00:43:22 5.1 Geographic spread
00:44:57 5.2 Number of adherents
00:45:37 5.3 Notable Christian organizations
00:47:31 6 Christianity law and ethics
00:47:41 6.1 Church and state framing
00:51:48 6.1.1 Democratic ideology
00:52:46 6.2 Women's roles
00:54:15 7 Major Christian denominations
00:56:30 7.1 Sizes of denomination
00:57:14 8 See also



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Christendom has several meanings. In one contemporary sense, as used in a secular or Protestant context, it may refer to the "Christian world": Christian-majority countries and the countries in which Christianity dominates or prevails, or, in the historic, Catholic sense of the word, the nations in which Catholic Christianity is the established religion, having a Catholic Christian polity.Since the spread of Christianity from the Levant to Europe and North Africa during the early Roman Empire, Christendom has been divided in the pre-existing Greek East and Latin West. Consequently, different versions of the Christian religion arose with their own beliefs and practices, centred around the cities of Rome (Western Christianity, whose community was called Western or Latin Christendom) and Constantinople (Eastern Christianity, whose community was called Eastern Christendom). From the 11th to 13th centuries, Latin Christendom rose to the central role of the Western world.In its historical sense, the term usually refers to the Middle Ages and to the Early Modern period during which the Christian world represented a geopolitical power that was juxtaposed with both the pagan and especially the Muslim world. In the traditional Roman Catholic sense of the word, it refers to the sum total of nations in which the Catholic Church is the established religion of the state or to those with ecclesiastical concordats with the Holy See.