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Christianity came to provide a measure of culture commonality for the diverse peoples of western Eurasia much as Chinese civilizations and Buddhism did for those of East asia and Islam did for the middle east and beyond. At the same time the Christian time became deeply divided. The story of global christendom in the era of third wave civilization is one of contractions and expansions. As a religion christianity contracted sharply in asia and Africa even as it expanded in western Europe and russia. Elsewhere in the middle east other jewish and christian communities soon felt the impact of islam.