From the Neolithic Revolution to Hellenistic Greece to the Americas, ninth grade world history has covered it all. Throughout this school year, we have connected every civilization that we learned about to four main themes; land, labor, law, and love. While all of these themes do connect as a whole, they are actually all quite different and impact each society in a distinct way. Because of this, each society we studied had a very unique behavior. But as we progressed further into the the year, I began to recognize something rather interesting; love, or religion, had a much larger impact every civilization in comparison to the other themes. People lived by the rules of their religions daily, which literally vindicated everyone's lifestyles throughout their civilization. Religion was not only a large portion of the cultural aspects of a civilization, but it actually justified the behavior of everyone, as seen in the Great Schism of 1054, the Crusades, and the sacrifices in Aztec society.
In the year 1054, the medieval Roman Catholic Church in Europe divided. This
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This division created the Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox Catholics. Eventually, breach had taken place between the Eastern and Western Churches. Pope Urban VI and Clement VII had excommunicated each other. Despite the constant controversy among the new churches, both of the churches were quite similar. However, small things like what language the services were conducted in or the marriage rights for priests kept these two new churches separated. Because of this separation, where one lived or what one thought was morally correct was all based on the church they were faithful to. The Great Schism was not the only event in history where we saw religion greatly impact a society; it is also seen later in the time of the