Chapter 15
The early modern era of world history gave birth to two intersecting culture trends that trends that continues to play out in the twenty first century. The first was the spread of christianity to Asians, Africans, and Native Americans. Christianity was really large in Europe at the beginning of the modern era. Christianity was divided between the Roman Catholics of Western and Central Europe and the Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe and Russia. Christianity motivated European political and economic expansion and also benefited form it. The Chinese encounter with Christianity was very different form that of Native Americans in Spain's new world empire. Although Europeans were central players in the globalization of Christianity, they weren't the only ones being transformed of the early modern era. The early modern era likewise witnessed the continuation of the long march of islam across the Afro-Asian world. Neither China nor India experienced culture or religious change as dramatic as that of the Reformation in Europe, nor did Confucian or Hindu cultures during the early modern era spread widely, as did Christianity and Islam. Several significant culture departures took shape in the early modern ear that brought Hindus and Muslims together in new forms of religious expression.