chapter 15

Europeans were central players in the globalization of christianity and the emergence of the modern science. They did not act alone in the cultural transformation of the early modern era. Asian, African, North American people largely determined that christianity would escape as it entered the new cultural environments. Christianity began to compete with a world religion. Buddhism held on to east asai just like hinduism in south asa. The cultural interactions of the early modern era did not take place on a one way street then the globalization of christianity; Christianity was limited to Europe at the beginning of the early modern ear. Christianity was seriously divided between the Roman Catholics of Western and Central Europe and Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe and Russia.