Analyze The Changes And Continuities Of Christianity And Universalization

From 300-600 CE The Roman Empire allowed new religions to be formed and universalized. The Religion that was associated with The Roman empire was Christianity. Christianity became the religion of Rome because of a man named Constantine who allowed Christianity to spread and flow throughout the empire create a harmony throughout the people. Constantine allowed for the Roman officials to adopt Christianity and this led to the building of the Constantinople. Christianity had basilicas which were opulent churches that were open to all which meant any person could go there allowing Christianity to be very universal. Christianity was also very appealing because the worshiped deity walked on land with the people. Christianity split and became the Roman Catholic church which consisted

of Europeans, Romans, and Non-Romans this allows Rome to transform from a imperial city to a spiritual city. Another main universal religion was Buddhism. Buddhism was spread to china on the Silk road by monks. As The Han Dynasty began to collapse this allowed for Buddha to capitalize on this and spread into China and South Asia. Buddha was transformed into two schools showing the different social classes. The Mahayana worshiped the bodhisattvas and the Hinayana. This allowed for Buddha to become a god, in replace of just a figure. These two schools were both Very universal and appealed to people all over East and South Asia. The next major Universal religion was Hinduism. Before Hinduism there was a culture known as Brahmanism. Because the two Buddhist schools took up space in the cities and commercial centers. Brahmanism focused on the other places such as agrarian centers. This caused believers to become vegetarians. Later on, Brahmanism transformed into Hinduism, because the Brahmans had a weak central state. Hinduism had three gods Brahma Vishnu and the Siva.

These gods allowed for Hinduism to be more universal causing Hinduism to be more available than later times. Both Hinduism and Buddhism lived parallel to each other both religions worshiping centers Temples and Monasteries, respectively became education centers. This allowed the societies to learn from each other and advance together. In East Africa, The Bantu people spoke over 400 languages and were settled agriculturalist unlike many other religions in Africa which were hunting and gathering based. The Bantu people, attracted to an intense relationship with gods, believed that the natural world was inhabited with spirits. The Bantu people were significant because their migrations filled up almost half of the African landmass and population and allowed for social order to be based solely on family and clans unlike previous religions. All of these universal religions had people who spread there faith and culture, such as the Big Men with the bantu, the Martyrs and Jesus in Christianity and The Buddhist Monks in Buddhism this allowed Christianity and Buddhism to become more universal and the Bantu People to be a "large scale common

culture".