The Focus of Universal Religions

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Universal Religions: Worlds together worlds apart focuses is about the connections between societies from conquests and the gradual, but accelerating ways where connections became ties of inter-dependence. The relations between societies are what will concern us. The forces pulling the world together vary from religious to economic, political to intellectual. These forces bring the world together, but they also create new divisions. Between 300 and 600 CE, religions with universal effort began to spread across various geological regions and a new spiritual earnestness developed with social and political contacts that gave religious belief powerful understanding. Religious spread built upon the power of the Roman and Han empires that bound east and west together. The growth of religious would grow in and across Afro-Eurasian landmass between 300 and 600 CE. Spiritual worries where more and more important their life and would unite communities to share their faiths. This new Afro-Eurasian spirituality took shape within imperial both would shape the frameworks. Normalize religions we...

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