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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.