Christendom

Christendom, or the Christian world, is a term for the global Christian community and for the states and countries where Christianity is dominant or prevails. It spread from the Levant into Europe and North Africa during the early Roman Empire and was long divided between the Greek East and the Latin West. After the Great Schism of 1054 two main branches stood out, Western or Latin Christendom centred on Rome and Eastern Christendom, also called the Byzantine commonwealth, centred on Constantinople. After Constantinople fell in 1453, Latin Christendom took a central role in the Western world, and the Reformation later added Protestantism as a third main branch. Its roughly two thousand year history spans developments in politics, art, architecture, literature, science, philosophy and technology.