Reflection:
In this Chapter Strayer talks about the cultural transformation within regions and how this connected people from afar. Cultural transformation involved science and religion. Science ended becoming to some people a religion. Science brought change to people within regions. During this time Christianity spread. During this time the Protestant Reformation came in and ruined the unity of the Roman Catholic Church. This started out with Martin Luther. Martin Luther was against to many of rules within the Catholic Church. From there he started this whole Protestant Reformation. Many people started to like and follow this Protestantism. However, this did not do much within the church and/or society. Protestantism spread throughout regions. From this the Catholic Church started to correct abuses and corruption within the church bringing renewal in the Catholic Church. I like how this chapter goes into the religious history giving us an idea of how Protestants came to be and what went wrong within the Catholic Church that brought Protestantism. Christianity played an important role during that time by helping the spread of politics and economics in Europe and visa versa. This shows how the church and a country mutually benefited each other during that time and till this day. Every region encountered Christianity differently. Religion was important to Africans as well. African religion brought slaves to the America. However, Europeans viewed their religion as witchcraft and evil. India and China, both, during that time and still till this day have different types of religion and beliefs. From these different religions brought cultural differences as well.
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