AP WORLD HISTORY
SPRING SEMESTER 2023
Cultural Transformations: Religion & Science
- Early modern centuries witnessed cultural / religious transformation which
connected distant peoples
- Christianity established solidly in the Americas / Philippines
- Did not spread in realms governed by Islam
- Scientific revolution : new encounter between science and religion
- Science and religion mixing grew into a defining worldview
- Asians, Africans, Native Americans determined how Christianity would be accepted /
rejected / transformed in its new culture
- Science emerged in an international context
- Islam continued to expand
- Cultural interactions of early modern era were not a one-way street
Globalization of Christianity
- West Asian origins: Christianity largely limited to Europe
- 1500– Christendom extended from Iberian Peninsula to Russia
- Pockets in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Central Asia
- Divide between Roman Catholic of West / Central Europe and Eastern Orthodox of
Eastern Europe
- Defensive against Islam
- Crusades in Holy Land (Israel)
- Seized the capital of Eastern Orthodoxy (Constanstinople) in 1453
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