4.3 The spread of christianity

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4.3 The spread of Christianity 

Heathens

During the early Middle Ages, a lot of people are heathens:

people that do not believe in Christ, but in nature gods. 

It is the job of missionaries to convert them to christianities. 

Missionaries

Missionaries were people who travelled around to convert people to Christianity. 

They did this by celebrating christian holidays on the same days as heathen holidays. 

This way, it was easier to change to Christianity for a lot of people. 

Estates

During the middle ages, society is divided in three estates:

1. Clergy

2. Nobility

3. Farmers

Drag the words to the correct estate.

First Estate

Second Estate

Third Estate

Clergy

Nobility

Farmers

Have to fight

Have to work

Have to pray

How did people spread christianity?

1. To tell people stories from the Bible
2. With destroying villages
3. With war
4. With bribing pagans

The spread of christianity is a ...... change.

1. Economic
2. Political
3. Cultural
4. Social

Where did christianity spread?

1. Everywhere in what used to be the Roman Empire.
2. In the northern and western part of the old Roman Empire.
3. In the Middle East and North-Africa
4. Asia Minor and Greece.

Who spread christianity?

1. bishops
2. knights
3. missionaries
4. monks

Explain what christians mean with the word pagan.

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