Chapter 10
Worlds of Christendom Islam was the cause of Christianity becoming the faith of Europe by 1500 Arabia the homeland of Islam Muslim forces took control of Jerusalem in 638 and constructed the Muslim shrine know as the Dome of the Rock Dome of the Rock to the Jews it contained stone which Abraham prepared to offer his son To Christians it was a place that Jesus had visited as a youngster to converse with learned teachers and later drove out the money changers Christianity reappeared in the under the Mongols Islam conversion reduced Christian communities in North Africa In Egypt, Coptic religion was the majority and tolerated by Muslim rulers Ethiopian Christianity developed some of its most distinctive features ...