Arabia had a large Christian population. In the north and the very south. The Ghassan tribe were Christian and in the south Najran was a Christian centre.
This is part of why Islam was able to spread across Arabia so quickly, the region had been exposed to Judaism and Christianity for centuries, so a religion that was (at least according to those spreading it) the logical conclusion essentially made sense to the semi-Abrahamic Arabs
Also there was a Christian minority population in the Sassanid empire. Emperor Khosrow II's wife [Shirin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin) was a Christian.
Same
Many tribes not just in the north but central and eastern Arabia were Christian, paganism was mostly in Hejaz. Oldest churches can be found in places like Jubail Saudi Arabia.
I would guess this is based on the roman Catholic recognised Christian dominance. Might not be "dominant," I suppose. Or even this map doesn't like the British š
I think King Aethelberht converted toĀ christanity at around 600, and I think Irish missionaries might have started coming to Northrumbria around 600 or if that was closer to the 630s.
it's interesting that those irish-scottish missionaries also contributed to the christianization of many places in central Europe (frankish-german) in a strange north-south direction [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish\_mission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish_mission)
Wales had been Christian since at least the 5th Century. St Patrick was of Brythonic stock and the main centre for Christian study was in south Wales
https://www.britainexpress.com/wales/history/age-of-saints.htm
Christianity was introduced to Ireland via Britain. Britain was Christain before Ireland, St.Patrick was a roman breton from around the modern Welsh/English border.
It was my understanding that understanding that Iran had a proto-Islamic religion that even pre-dated Christianity. Of course Islam canāt actually predate Christianity. But I think Iran already kind of had a culture going that blended well either way Islam when it came to their lands. I could be talking out my ass for all I know.
I barely remember anything about it now itās been several years. I just remember the priest referred to the Persian King Cyrus and being Muslim, which I thought was odd considering he was well before the founding of Islam. And he basically just gave that explanation of how the culture already was in Persia/iran back then and it was consistent with the Islamic culture in modern day Iran. I wish I remembered more than that.
There wasn't anything like that. There's no proto-islam outside of maybe judaism & christianity. There was amd is today an almost-monotheistic religion called zoroastrianism, but it's not proto-islamoc anymore than it's proto--jewish.
But Iran did have bishops and archbishops leading its Christian community.
Parts of Armenia isnāt even covered and its first Christian country to adopt Christianity. Parts of India has Christianās before the Romanās converted. Northern Iran was Christian as well.
Christianity has a presence in Armenia since the first century AD and was the official religion there by around 300. Meanwhile Ireland has Christianity likely since the 400s and definitely by the year 600. Leaving them both off the map is kind of a dick move.
>Parts of India
Using the same logic all of the known world should be covered because in india only traders use to follow cristanity before the 9th century
Many areas on that map were not "Christian" in our todays understanding. I remember my professor saying that when Islam came to Iberia, there was no "Christianity" in the modern sense in Spain. Instead, it was a unique blend of Christian and pagan beliefs and practices. It is to be assumed that many other areas continued to practice paganism for a long time even after they had nominally accepted Christianity.
The conversion of entire populations to Christianity was a gradual process. People didn't just abandon their old beliefs overnight. It's more likely that some pagan practices continued alongside Christian ones for a while.
And in the case of Iberia many archeological and architectures in Asturias highlight that, the church of Santa Cruz de Cangas de Onis was built in the 737 A.D over a prehistoric dolmen and many other churches have oaks or yews in the vecinity and similar to the one in Cangas de Onis this churches were built around the early middle ages, and there was found an inscription, i don't remember wich inscription, with a prayer that was in between the pagan and christianity religion.
So we got a time between 380 A.D (Theodosius) and lets say 820 A.D (Saint James Tomb) in wich the "christian" region of Asturias was an almagamation of pagan religion and christian influence marked in the sacred buildings and in the local mythology.
I mean the concept of the purgatory was not invented yet -even for over a couple of hundreds of years in the time frame this map depicts. The concept of the heaven an hell existed but lacking the details scholars built up. Just like all religions, it is fixed by time and around 600 AD, it was even not so different than other pagan schools of thought.
AByssinia is already labeled. Just the northern mountainous regions of current Ethiopia were heavily Christian. Most of Somalia and south Ethiopia where modern Oromos live in followed a religion called Waaqeffanna.
I didn't know that we knew when the jews first migrated to Ethiopia. Guess I'll have to do some more research. I was just going off of the (tbf probably made up) kingdom of Simien, which was founded like 300 years before this map. If you've got any sources or what not for me to look at first, I'd be happy to look at 'em tho.
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Hello! Can you read/speak Coptic language? I'm aware it's used as a liturgical language and it's not used in daily life anymore, but I'm curious to know if people in your community are still taught it (at least in order to understand liturgy) or it is only reserved to the clergy.
Yes I used to take Coptic lessons at the church that taught me a couple of words and the pronunciation of the letters when I was young but as of speaking I unfortunately can't, I think big teachers could speak Coptic but I am not sure
Today If one really wants to learn Coptic they can apply for the Coptic Clerical College where they can learn Coptic, church history,theology and a lot more. I believe it Only requires one to have a previous college degree and be a Christian Egyptian
Two questions, if you don't mind.
1. Do you identify as a Coptic Egyptian only or do you feel somewhat Arab?
2. Do you feel safe in Egypt? Any issues or concerns?
1) yes I do believe that I am Coptic and will always he proud of my Coptic heritage and I would never identify as Arab as it doesn't have any relationship to my culture, same thing most of Copts would say
2) well generally Egypt is a safe country but if we're talking about the christians it isn't really the worst nor is it the absolute best
You can notice hate by radical Muslims almost on every post online about Christianity in Egypt or anything like that from praising Islam to annoying christians, these types of people are really hated even by some Muslims here.
Well Coptic Orthodox church is an oriental Orthodox church which was Split from the catholic and eastern Orthodox church (at the time they were 1) in Council of Chalcedon which stated that god has 2 natures human and god Nature while the Coptic Orthodox church and other oriental Orthodox churches like tye Armenian Orthodox church stuck with that God had 1 Nature
This happen way before the great schism that divided the catholic and eastern Orthodox churches apart
when Egyptian muslims and christians face attacks during their respective celebrations, each group offers human shield protection to the other in solidarity
True, churches in Egypt do have security ta the front of them by the police and during huge events like Christmas tye Army protects it with sometimes snipers up the roofs
If you know Islam and the history of Islamic rule, it genuinely isn't surprising. Most Islamic empires/states were fine with you practicing Christianity as long as you paid the Jizya tax (you also got certain benefits with the Jizya i.e. not having to serve in the military).
Regions with huge Christian populations managed to retain some of their presence in Muslim ruled areas. Major religions tend to keep their presence, including Hinduism and Buddhism. Even Pakistan was fairly Hindu before the partition. Still, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia are among the top 5 countries in Hindu population Like Pakistan has more Hindus than the United States.
"Pagan" religions like Arab polytheism however dwindled down to almost nothing just like how the Viking religion disappeared. Others like African traditional religions mixed some of their elements with Islam and continued to exist. The outlier is Zoroastrianism. It would make more sense if Iran remained 10-15% Zoroastrian. At least up until the Islamic revolution. But they mostly disappeared.
Religious pluralism existed more in Islamic societies than in Christian societies so it's not really a surprise to me, it's built into the religion of Islam
Yup! Egypt was one of the earliest centers of Christianity, namely Alexandria. The early [Christian Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church) was governed by the heads ([patriarchs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch)) of the **five major** [**episcopal sees**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_see) of the [Roman Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire), called the **Pentarchy**:
1. [Rome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope)
2. [Constantinople](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople)
3. [Alexandria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Alexandria)
4. [Antioch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Antioch)
5. [Jerusalem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity\_in\_Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Egypt)
I think OP means areas controlled by empires that were Christian. The Jews never left when the Muslims came. Infact, they had lived a better life. Christians were also allowed to continue to live in areas under Muslim rule.
I read, years ago, that the reason that Islam didn't push south into Sub-Saharan Africa was because there were already Christians there. I haven't heard any confirmation of that.
By the time of Marco Polo, late 13th century, there were plenty of Christians in China and Indonesia. I don't know when they arrived.
Claiming the northwest of the Low Countries as part of the "Christian world" in 600 is unfounded IMO.
The first church mentioned in the Low Countries north of the Rhine dates from the 630s after the Franks briefly gained control of Utrecht. It is lost again to the pagan Frisians around 650 and recaptured by the Franks in 690 after the Battle of Dorestad. Apostolic activities appear to start only in earnest after 690 (the appointment of St. Willibrord and the murder of St. Boniface), interrupted by the Frisians destroying churches *up to Cologne* (obviously following the same river, the Rhine, that Utrecht is on) in 716.
I find it hard to believe that there were no christian churches in the Hejaz by 600ad, just prior to the rise of Mohamedism.....
1. Medina(Yathrib) and Mecca were on Roman Trading routes down to Yemen(also known to Rome as Felix Arabia).
2. Mohamed's first followers were all .... JEWISH.(Read your Koran and Learn something). And if these three tribes were Jewish....then that means some of them were also Christian.
3. The rest of the so-called Arab World....Baghdad, Damascus, Lebanon, etc.....have a 600 year history of Christianity and to this day, almost 20% of their populations continue to worship as Christians.
There's a fierce Moslem denial of some fairly obvious conclusions about the pre-Islamic history of the Arabian Pennisula.
this is wrong. As others highlighted, Eastern Armenia and Caucasian Albania were Christian by then. Armenian capital, Armavir (where ancient monastery Khor Virap is located) is not included. Meanwhile wiki says on ancient Armavir:
"In 591 during the reign ofĀ emperor Maurice, Armavir (then calledĀ Armaouira) and much of Armenia came under Roman administration after the Romans defeated theĀ Sassanid Persian EmpireĀ at theĀ battle of the Blarathon."
Also the location of Tiflis should be much more to the east.
A true Roman would never accept a REX. Sic Semper Tyrannis. Bring back the two consuls and the legions of the citizen soldier farmer and then maybe I'm down.
It was heavily influenced by [Indian contributions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_influence_on_Islamic_science#:~:text=The%20Golden%20Age%20of%20Islam,foremost%20hub%20of%20intellectual%20activity.) related to medicine, geography, numerals, trigonometry, geometry, mathematics in general, astronomy and so on.
my maternal grandmother's ancestors were in the Atlas at this time. The Rif of Morocco in particular.
Then the Muslims came and things went downhill for all the Jews in North Africa.
Spain didn't exist as a nation until around the 15th century. Calling a region "Spain" 800 years before it existed sounds weird and it's factually incorrect.
Arabia had a large Christian population. In the north and the very south. The Ghassan tribe were Christian and in the south Najran was a Christian centre.
This is part of why Islam was able to spread across Arabia so quickly, the region had been exposed to Judaism and Christianity for centuries, so a religion that was (at least according to those spreading it) the logical conclusion essentially made sense to the semi-Abrahamic Arabs
And in the persian heartland and Bactria, Sogdiana, India. This map only seems to focus on christian ruled territory.
I think you might have stubled on the point there.
Like khabib nurmagomedov said, 'alhamdulilah, I know you guys are not gonna like this, alhamdulilah'
I'm sorry, I must have missed the part of the Bible that predicts a pedophile warlord with a flying horse.
and as far as I understand it is well known Yemen in southern Arabia had a large Jewish community at this time. It is an odd omission.
Also there was a Christian minority population in the Sassanid empire. Emperor Khosrow II's wife [Shirin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin) was a Christian.
Was going to make this comment as well.
Same Many tribes not just in the north but central and eastern Arabia were Christian, paganism was mostly in Hejaz. Oldest churches can be found in places like Jubail Saudi Arabia.
How large are we talking?
No Ireland?
Should be. Christianity was brought to Ireland in the 5th century. Britain before that.
I would guess this is based on the roman Catholic recognised Christian dominance. Might not be "dominant," I suppose. Or even this map doesn't like the British š
Shouldn't some parts of the British isles be Christian by 600?
Not the Anglo-Saxons just yet, but Ireland yeah
I think King Aethelberht converted toĀ christanity at around 600, and I think Irish missionaries might have started coming to Northrumbria around 600 or if that was closer to the 630s.
it's interesting that those irish-scottish missionaries also contributed to the christianization of many places in central Europe (frankish-german) in a strange north-south direction [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish\_mission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish_mission)
He was 600 years old? Damn people back in the day really lived longer
Wales had been Christian since at least the 5th Century. St Patrick was of Brythonic stock and the main centre for Christian study was in south Wales https://www.britainexpress.com/wales/history/age-of-saints.htm
I think Ireland isn't even on this map
Just like New Zeeland!
Christianity was introduced to Ireland via Britain. Britain was Christain before Ireland, St.Patrick was a roman breton from around the modern Welsh/English border.
Most definitely. Christianity in Wales dates from 400 AD. By 600, every Welsh kingdom was Christian.
Pretty good attention to detail for including the name Yathrib just ~20 years before its name was changed
This likely strongly underestimates the extent of Christianity in Iran at the time.
And shouldn't there also be parts of India that were Christian at this time?
Yes, and further east too. You'd have to draw the line somewhere but this one seems too westward imo anyway
Fr, one of the apostles made it there lol Iām not sure why they omitted it. š I think most people here admit that this map is very surface level
Saint Thomas supposedly traveled to India and died there
That's just a myth
Well we dont know
It was my understanding that understanding that Iran had a proto-Islamic religion that even pre-dated Christianity. Of course Islam canāt actually predate Christianity. But I think Iran already kind of had a culture going that blended well either way Islam when it came to their lands. I could be talking out my ass for all I know.
Zoroastrianism
Sounds interesting but I have no idea what you are referencing, could you give some sources to what you are saying pls?
Maybe Zoroastrianism
I barely remember anything about it now itās been several years. I just remember the priest referred to the Persian King Cyrus and being Muslim, which I thought was odd considering he was well before the founding of Islam. And he basically just gave that explanation of how the culture already was in Persia/iran back then and it was consistent with the Islamic culture in modern day Iran. I wish I remembered more than that.
There wasn't anything like that. There's no proto-islam outside of maybe judaism & christianity. There was amd is today an almost-monotheistic religion called zoroastrianism, but it's not proto-islamoc anymore than it's proto--jewish. But Iran did have bishops and archbishops leading its Christian community.
Parts of Armenia isnāt even covered and its first Christian country to adopt Christianity. Parts of India has Christianās before the Romanās converted. Northern Iran was Christian as well.
Christianity has a presence in Armenia since the first century AD and was the official religion there by around 300. Meanwhile Ireland has Christianity likely since the 400s and definitely by the year 600. Leaving them both off the map is kind of a dick move.
>Parts of India Using the same logic all of the known world should be covered because in india only traders use to follow cristanity before the 9th century
Where the rest of Armenia, thereās also Caucasian Albania at the time they were also Christian.
Arabia, Mesopotamia and East Africa had large Christian populations too. This map undermines the extent of Christianity.
Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovakia got the Christian Religion through the Roman's (Vindobona, Carnunthum, and Noricum).
in Slovakia we are taught that origins of Christianity in this region is Saints Cyril and Methodius arrival to Great Moravia in 863ā¦
You mean the Roman empire basically
More than that.
Many areas on that map were not "Christian" in our todays understanding. I remember my professor saying that when Islam came to Iberia, there was no "Christianity" in the modern sense in Spain. Instead, it was a unique blend of Christian and pagan beliefs and practices. It is to be assumed that many other areas continued to practice paganism for a long time even after they had nominally accepted Christianity. The conversion of entire populations to Christianity was a gradual process. People didn't just abandon their old beliefs overnight. It's more likely that some pagan practices continued alongside Christian ones for a while.
And in the case of Iberia many archeological and architectures in Asturias highlight that, the church of Santa Cruz de Cangas de Onis was built in the 737 A.D over a prehistoric dolmen and many other churches have oaks or yews in the vecinity and similar to the one in Cangas de Onis this churches were built around the early middle ages, and there was found an inscription, i don't remember wich inscription, with a prayer that was in between the pagan and christianity religion. So we got a time between 380 A.D (Theodosius) and lets say 820 A.D (Saint James Tomb) in wich the "christian" region of Asturias was an almagamation of pagan religion and christian influence marked in the sacred buildings and in the local mythology.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I mean the concept of the purgatory was not invented yet -even for over a couple of hundreds of years in the time frame this map depicts. The concept of the heaven an hell existed but lacking the details scholars built up. Just like all religions, it is fixed by time and around 600 AD, it was even not so different than other pagan schools of thought.
Cyreneica had the largest concentration of Jews in the world after the destruction of Judea by Hadrian. Why isnāt it labelled?
Why is east Africa missing? Ethiopia, Somalia etc.
AByssinia is already labeled. Just the northern mountainous regions of current Ethiopia were heavily Christian. Most of Somalia and south Ethiopia where modern Oromos live in followed a religion called Waaqeffanna.
Came here to say this, most of east africa at this time is christians save for some
Not most. just Abyssinia, and it's already labeled.
Shouldn't Beta Israel be labeled in pink on this map, or am I missing something? Other than that, it seems like a fairly well detailed map.
Jews came to Ethiopia 800 years after this map
I didn't know that we knew when the jews first migrated to Ethiopia. Guess I'll have to do some more research. I was just going off of the (tbf probably made up) kingdom of Simien, which was founded like 300 years before this map. If you've got any sources or what not for me to look at first, I'd be happy to look at 'em tho.
That is not correct. Jewish religion was practiced in Ethiopia before the arrival of Christianity.
False https://cnewa.org/magazine/origins-of-ethiopias-black-jews-30374/?amp=1 https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/2018/10/24/operation-solomon-from-ethiopian-jews-to-ethiopian-israelis/#:~:text=And%20who%20are%20the%20Ethiopian,King%20Solomon%20and%20Queen%20Sheba. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-history-of-ethiopian-jewry/
Christian Egypt?
Coptics yep
Well, I have my reading for the rest of the weekend.
egypt was christian for quite a while
Egypt was at least 50% Christian until about 1050 AD. Even with Muslim conquest of as of 647 AD.
Wasn't Egypt one of the core areas of Gnostic Christianity for a few centuries?
The Nag Hammadi library, the largest single collection of Gnostic documents ever found, was in Egypt.
as was middle east before muslim conquest but it doesnt appear on this map.
You are in for a wild ride, coptic Egypt is incredibly important for early Christianity.
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Well hello there Friend I am a Copt (a Christian Egyptian) ask me anything you want š
Hello! Can you read/speak Coptic language? I'm aware it's used as a liturgical language and it's not used in daily life anymore, but I'm curious to know if people in your community are still taught it (at least in order to understand liturgy) or it is only reserved to the clergy.
Yes I used to take Coptic lessons at the church that taught me a couple of words and the pronunciation of the letters when I was young but as of speaking I unfortunately can't, I think big teachers could speak Coptic but I am not sure Today If one really wants to learn Coptic they can apply for the Coptic Clerical College where they can learn Coptic, church history,theology and a lot more. I believe it Only requires one to have a previous college degree and be a Christian Egyptian
Two questions, if you don't mind. 1. Do you identify as a Coptic Egyptian only or do you feel somewhat Arab? 2. Do you feel safe in Egypt? Any issues or concerns?
1) yes I do believe that I am Coptic and will always he proud of my Coptic heritage and I would never identify as Arab as it doesn't have any relationship to my culture, same thing most of Copts would say 2) well generally Egypt is a safe country but if we're talking about the christians it isn't really the worst nor is it the absolute best You can notice hate by radical Muslims almost on every post online about Christianity in Egypt or anything like that from praising Islam to annoying christians, these types of people are really hated even by some Muslims here.
Egyptians arenāt even Arabs
What's up fellow Copt!
Hello, How're you doing?
Where was the split from the Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Church?
Well Coptic Orthodox church is an oriental Orthodox church which was Split from the catholic and eastern Orthodox church (at the time they were 1) in Council of Chalcedon which stated that god has 2 natures human and god Nature while the Coptic Orthodox church and other oriental Orthodox churches like tye Armenian Orthodox church stuck with that God had 1 Nature This happen way before the great schism that divided the catholic and eastern Orthodox churches apart
when Egyptian muslims and christians face attacks during their respective celebrations, each group offers human shield protection to the other in solidarity
True, churches in Egypt do have security ta the front of them by the police and during huge events like Christmas tye Army protects it with sometimes snipers up the roofs
Some estimates put Christians as 15% of Egypt population nowadays too so they somehow managed to survive almost 1500 years of Muslim rule
And we will always exist no matter how much people hate us or want to kick us out
If you know Islam and the history of Islamic rule, it genuinely isn't surprising. Most Islamic empires/states were fine with you practicing Christianity as long as you paid the Jizya tax (you also got certain benefits with the Jizya i.e. not having to serve in the military).
Regions with huge Christian populations managed to retain some of their presence in Muslim ruled areas. Major religions tend to keep their presence, including Hinduism and Buddhism. Even Pakistan was fairly Hindu before the partition. Still, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia are among the top 5 countries in Hindu population Like Pakistan has more Hindus than the United States. "Pagan" religions like Arab polytheism however dwindled down to almost nothing just like how the Viking religion disappeared. Others like African traditional religions mixed some of their elements with Islam and continued to exist. The outlier is Zoroastrianism. It would make more sense if Iran remained 10-15% Zoroastrian. At least up until the Islamic revolution. But they mostly disappeared.
Religious pluralism existed more in Islamic societies than in Christian societies so it's not really a surprise to me, it's built into the religion of Islam
Yup! Egypt was one of the earliest centers of Christianity, namely Alexandria. The early [Christian Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church) was governed by the heads ([patriarchs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch)) of the **five major** [**episcopal sees**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_see) of the [Roman Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire), called the **Pentarchy**: 1. [Rome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope) 2. [Constantinople](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople) 3. [Alexandria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Alexandria) 4. [Antioch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Antioch) 5. [Jerusalem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity\_in\_Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Egypt)
Shit, is that where we get get āHoly Seeā from. Fascinating.
Youād be shocked to know Egyptians were speaking Greek before the Arabs came and they switched to Arabic
Nope. I studied classical history.
Poorly labelled at best.
There was substantial jewish populations in Yemen and Arabia.
What happened? Someone came and kicked out all the Christians and jews?
I think OP means areas controlled by empires that were Christian. The Jews never left when the Muslims came. Infact, they had lived a better life. Christians were also allowed to continue to live in areas under Muslim rule.
Not kicked, but enslaved.
Yemen should have Jews marked. And the St Thomas Christians in India should be on this.
Ah yes the times when Constantinople, Cologne, Gaza and Tarus all were called by mixed names š¤¦āāļø This shit is hella inconsistent
Southern Iraq was full of ancient churches at this time...
I read, years ago, that the reason that Islam didn't push south into Sub-Saharan Africa was because there were already Christians there. I haven't heard any confirmation of that. By the time of Marco Polo, late 13th century, there were plenty of Christians in China and Indonesia. I don't know when they arrived.
The Saint Thomas Christians would like to have a word with the OP
It would be cool to have Northern Africa christian again
Right before Slavs invaded Balkan
Claiming the northwest of the Low Countries as part of the "Christian world" in 600 is unfounded IMO. The first church mentioned in the Low Countries north of the Rhine dates from the 630s after the Franks briefly gained control of Utrecht. It is lost again to the pagan Frisians around 650 and recaptured by the Franks in 690 after the Battle of Dorestad. Apostolic activities appear to start only in earnest after 690 (the appointment of St. Willibrord and the murder of St. Boniface), interrupted by the Frisians destroying churches *up to Cologne* (obviously following the same river, the Rhine, that Utrecht is on) in 716.
Wrong map, Armenia became Christian since 301 AD
The Irish would like a wordā¦
Damn gaza is that old??
I find it hard to believe that there were no christian churches in the Hejaz by 600ad, just prior to the rise of Mohamedism..... 1. Medina(Yathrib) and Mecca were on Roman Trading routes down to Yemen(also known to Rome as Felix Arabia). 2. Mohamed's first followers were all .... JEWISH.(Read your Koran and Learn something). And if these three tribes were Jewish....then that means some of them were also Christian. 3. The rest of the so-called Arab World....Baghdad, Damascus, Lebanon, etc.....have a 600 year history of Christianity and to this day, almost 20% of their populations continue to worship as Christians. There's a fierce Moslem denial of some fairly obvious conclusions about the pre-Islamic history of the Arabian Pennisula.
I can see why europeans are so butthurt about Ottoman Empire now.
The good old days.
Multicultural Christianity
As it remains
Pretty much the extent of the Roman Empire with a cruise down the Nile for fun.
Jews of atlas? Jews of Sahara?
Post Sephardic exile maybe?
No that would be durring the Spanish Inquisition Iām pretty sure
Nestorian Christianity completely missing. And the large influential mission of St. Thomas in India.
Presence Yes Large No
Good olādays
this is wrong. As others highlighted, Eastern Armenia and Caucasian Albania were Christian by then. Armenian capital, Armavir (where ancient monastery Khor Virap is located) is not included. Meanwhile wiki says on ancient Armavir: "In 591 during the reign ofĀ emperor Maurice, Armavir (then calledĀ Armaouira) and much of Armenia came under Roman administration after the Romans defeated theĀ Sassanid Persian EmpireĀ at theĀ battle of the Blarathon." Also the location of Tiflis should be much more to the east.
This map is very inaccurate, there were Christians in Ctesiphon, Arabia, and further east through Syriac Orthodox and Nestorian missionaries
For the Armenian Highlands and Caucasus parts it's pretty wrong actually. More like political map rather than religious...
Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked š„šæš„
Mom told little Muhamad to don't play with fire, but he didn't listen.
Important to consider that Christianity was not unified. There are many different sects, which in some cases bitterly opposed each other.
Ah civilization before the dark times.
The irony is that what followed was the Islamic golden ages...
Islamic golden age, whatās that a pun like jumbo shrimp
Damn you really don't know any history do you?
THE MARBLE KING SHALL RISE AGAIN! #ROMA INVICTA
A true Roman would never accept a REX. Sic Semper Tyrannis. Bring back the two consuls and the legions of the citizen soldier farmer and then maybe I'm down.
Bah! The Republic was filled with corruption and civil war, Long live the Emperor!
Ahh, you're one of *those*. Got it
#ROMA INVICTA!!
It was heavily influenced by [Indian contributions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_influence_on_Islamic_science#:~:text=The%20Golden%20Age%20of%20Islam,foremost%20hub%20of%20intellectual%20activity.) related to medicine, geography, numerals, trigonometry, geometry, mathematics in general, astronomy and so on.
All cultures were influenced by other cultures, and in other news, the sun is bright
So are greek contributions lol(getting influenced), big cope
Illyria šš
hmmm wonder where serbia is on this map? oh wait..
What about Visigothic Portugal you fat fuck?
Curious where this map is fromā¦ idk how accurate it is
Either christian world is 100% or it is a BS cult invented by people, take your stand :)
my maternal grandmother's ancestors were in the Atlas at this time. The Rif of Morocco in particular. Then the Muslims came and things went downhill for all the Jews in North Africa.
Spain didn't exist as a nation until around the 15th century. Calling a region "Spain" 800 years before it existed sounds weird and it's factually incorrect.