Ch. 15's Big Question: In what ways did the spread of Christianity, Islam, and modern science give rise to culturally based conflicts?

The spread of Christianity, Islam, and modern science gave rise to culturally based conflicts was “central players in the globalization” (Strayer, 644). This is sometimes called The Globalization of Christianity. Despite, “Asian, African, and Native American peoples largely determined how Christianity would be accepted, rejected, or transformed as it entered new cultural environments” (Strayer, 644), science is the most important subject that “emerged within an international and not simply a European context, and it met varying receptions in different parts of the world” (Strayer, 644). At the same time, “Islam continued a long pattern of religious expansion and renewal, even as Christianity began to compete with it as a world religion” (Strayer, 644). This is the most important part of history in the modern era. 

According to the Globalization in Europe, Christianity was the most important religion that represents “the world of Christendom” (Strayer, 644) in 1500. This “stretched from Spain and England in the west to Russia in the east, with small and beleaguered communities of various kinds in Egypt, Ethiopia, southern India, and Central Asia” (Strayer, 644). In addition, Europeans were also “central players in the globalization of Christianity, theirs was not the only expanding or transformed culture of the early modern era” (Strayer, 659). This used in persistence and change in Afro-Asian cultural traditions, especially “African religious ideas and practices” (Strayer, 659). Therefore, the Globalization in Europe was a worldwide spread during its modern era. 

Overall, the spread of Christianity, Islam, and modern science “became a universal worldview, open to all who could accept its premises and its techniques” (Strayer, 665).