... and had a central government ruled by one emperor. The West was made up of small kingdoms ruled by the descendants of barbarian invaders. It had its religious center 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 ... work against the much larger group of crusaders. This plan, though did not work out quite the way he had hoped, resulting in he and hi...

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