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Even after the Roman Empire collapsed in that same century?

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  > Even after the Roman Empire collapsed in that same century? It didn't. It split shortly after, and the post-split Western Empire collapsed nearly a century later, the Eastern Empire about a millenium after that, and both had top-down imposed Christianity throughout their domains before falling, as did many of their successors.
  • yters 9y ago
    How can you explain European Christianity with top down imposed rule if the Western Empire collapsed before the medieval ages? What is doing the imposing?
    • dragonwriter 9y ago
      > How can you explain European Christianity with top down imposed rule if the Western Empire collapsed before the medieval ages? Much of it by Francia, whose first King converted to Christianity in 496, and which rapidly became the dominant power in Western Europe.
      • masonic 9y ago
        Much of it by Francia, whose first King converted to Christianity in 496 ... which is 20 years after the Western empire fell.
    • icebraining 9y ago
      Many peoples converted to fall on the good graces of the eastern Roman empire and stop being trampled on so much. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Bulgaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Bulgaria