Christianity

Christianity spread through Jerusalem using contagious diffusion after the Crucifixion of Jesus on the cross. After Constantine converted to, and made Christianity the state religion, it spread through hierarchical diffusion. After the fall of Rome, it stayed alive in Europe, which brought it to North america in the age of exploration though relocation diffusion. Missionaries in America spread Christianity to the native Americans. Spain brought it to South america, now mexico and much of south america, through relocation diffusion. Christianity has now spread all over the globe.

Roman catholic churches were called cathedrals. Cathedrals were huge and covered in designs, stained glass windows, paintings, steeples, bell towers, and domes. Some of the traditional cathedrals are shaped like a cross and have a dome at the top, where the alter sits underneath and the priest teaches. More modern churches are less extravagant than cathedrals. Catholic churches often still have stained glass windows and bell towers, but other branches of Christianity have much more simple churches. Some modern churches have no distinguished Christian features at all. The map shows examples of some christian churches.

Christian cosmogony is the same as Judaism. God created the world in seven days, from nothing. Man was the last thing he made and man could rule all other plants and animals, but could not eat fruit from one tree in the garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve lived. Adam and Eve ate from the tree, tempted by the devil, and were expelled from the garden because of their sin. This picture in the Sistine Chapel depicts God creating Adam.