... menace to all outside the Muslim fold."1 The Muslims took over the southern half of the Roman world. The rest was divided into two parts, the Eastern Empire and the Western, which included France, part of Germany, Italy and Britain. In the East, the empire was based on Constantinople and had a ... at Rome, and the people embraced the power of the Pope. The East developed a separate church from the one of the Western Christianity. This Orthodox church was closely aligned to the emperor. The result of this was that in the ninth and tenth centuries Christendom was fighting to survive in t...

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