Because this minority was supported by Byzantine imperial authorities, the Copts developed national and cultural animosity against the Byzantine Empire. ... Roman Catholic Church, the largest single Christian body, composed of those Christians who acknowledge the supreme authority of the bishop of Rome, the pope, in matters of faith. ... Organization and Structure In keeping with early Christian traditions, the fundamental unit of organization in the Roman Catholic church is the diocese, headed by a bishop. ... • The language of the Roman Catholic Church first was spoken in Latin, whi...

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In the 'Old World' Chinese believed that death brought a gradual return to the cosmos, while the Romans, Arabs and Greeks thought that death allowed one to reach a more definitive plain (e.g. ... The God-given aspect of rule was also used predominantly in the Roman papacy and the pharaohs of Egypt. ... The Crusades by the Roman Popes are possibly the best evidence of abuse of religious power, and they took over one-thousand years, since the beginning of Christianity, to begin. ... Some could argue that Islam was a factor in the attacks on the Byzantine Empire, but it is clear that u...

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Egypt acquired the largest empire in its history and endured peace, wealth-building, large scale building, foreign trade networking, incredible leadership and much more between 1549 and 1069 BC. ... Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, and the Roman Empire, respectively, all ruled Egypt from 600 BC to more modern times (World History Timeline Ancient Egypt). ... When the Romans conquered Egypt, the Egyptian literature was translated to other languages, half a million books were being written, and the mysteries of Egyptian writing were being revealed, known as the Rosetta Stone. ...

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The only people who have a right to complain about the Crusades would be Orthodox Christians who were betrayed by Roman Catholics, which was the primary reason the Ottoman Muslims sacked Constantinople and replaced the Byzantine Empire with their own; this same regime eventually went on to massacre a few million Armenian Christians and Jews decades before the Holocaust. ...

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