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Originally Posted by BB_Eye

The spread of Christianity signalled the end of classical antiquity and the beginning of the medieval world. Obviously medieval society seems barbaric compared to our own, but it differed from ancient or pagan cultures in that it accepted all man as equal under God.

Incidentally, the crimes of the African slave trade only began in the 16th century, during the Italian Renaissance when Europe looked back to the Greek pagan/humanistic ideals for inspiration and began to explore the world and destroy everything in their path.

The age of empires, Europe was only doing what the Roman Empire had done and what we still do today..

The medieval world still had its link with the classical past through Rome, Christianity and the laws that spilt into it.. Early medieval Christianity was very political.