Two: The Roman Empire is the most powerful empire, but it still respects Greece culturally. Just like the Qing Dynasty became powerful, but the culture is still Confucian, and the reason is the same.
Three: European religions take Christianity as the core and believe in one God. The Greeks and Romans worshipped many gods. The Ten Commandments of Christianity are the cornerstone of European morality.
Four: become the religion of Jews in Christianity, or become the religion of all people. Paul made it clear that Christianity is the religion of all people, and since then, Christianity has become a world religion.
Five: Germanic barbarians are the most war-loving people in Europe, which began in 400 AD and ended in World War II.
Six: At first Rome practiced Christianity, but in 3 13, Constantine the Great became a Christian, and Christianity became the only religion in the Roman Empire. Since then, the Bishop of Rome has become Pope.
Seven: The Germanic barbarians destroyed the Roman Empire in 476, but the church kept the Greek and Roman civilization in the form of a church.
Eight: Germanic barbarians have laid the whole of Europe, but they are illiterate and will not rule. For hundreds of years, countless small countries in Europe have been established and have been at war for years. Germanic kings gave land to soldiers and became independent, but the rudiments of modern countries such as France, Spain and Britain gradually took shape.
Nine: Germanic barbarians also accepted Christianity because of the need of rule, and at the same time established the concept of private property rights, that is, the king should not encroach on anyone's property rights, which was also the reason for the rise of Europe later. Because the monarch of the East is a territory, everything on it belongs to him.
Ten: Seen from the above, 476 years ago was the classical period, 476 to 1400 was the medieval period, and 1400 was the modern period.
Eleven: Throughout the Middle Ages, in about 65,438+0,000 years, Christianity adopted the knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome with wisdom and perfected it into its own teachings. At the same time, it absorbed Germanic barbarians and became a Christian knight. The Roman church actually ruled Europe for thousands of years. On the surface, it was ruled by Germanic barbarians, but behind the scenes it was the church.
Twelve: During thousands of years of religious rule, the church has become a rich and powerful organization, which has been far away from the humbleness of Jesus and his disciples. Eat, drink and be merry like civil servants have changed.
The Renaissance began at 14: 1400, because Christianity bound people's minds. Europe has entered a new ideological civilization, that is, religion is only a basic existence, a good thing, a necessity for existence, but not all. We should look for Greek classical culture again in order to remove the ideological shackles of Christianity. It is unparalleled to put forward classic things.
15th century:16th century, Martin Luther denied that doing good deeds and accumulating virtues could not help you to be saved. But that as long as we believe in God, God will save us. Because the Bible is Latin, few people really understand it, so Martin Luther translated it into German so that everyone can read it, and everyone can be saved by faith without relying on the church. So Protestantism began to rise everywhere, and Britain also had its own Protestantism, called the Anglican Church. Many Protestants and Roman Catholics are incompatible. After a hundred years of war, they finally sat down and recognized each other. Roman Catholicism is a Roman church that has inherited the original Millennium, while Protestantism is a Christian church before inheriting Roman customs.
Sixteenth: the second bow of religion, Newton's gravity proves that the sun is the center of the universe, not that God created the earth first and then the sun and the moon. Second, Darwin said that human beings evolved from apes, not from mud used by God. Since then, Europe has entered the era of scientific revolution.
Seventeen: The beginning of the Enlightenment originated in France. There were two forces in society at that time. One is that the church sells miracle stories everywhere to make people obey, otherwise they will suffer in hell forever, and the other is the king of France.