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__**Contact and Conflict between Christianity and Islam Conflict**__
 * 1) source of the problem: the Holy Land
 * 2) Jerusalem is an important city to Muslims, Christians, and Jews
 * 3) crusades
 * Christians do not want Jerusalem in the hands of the Muslims so they try to retake it
 * Christians hope that the fight will reunite the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church
 * after 4 crusades, Jerusalem remains in Muslim control
 * leads to even more mistrust and intolerance between the two religions
 * __Contact__**
 * 1) greater interaction between cultures
 * 2) much more trade
 * 3) ideas exchanged and people begin to think differently
 * 4) Christian world disrupted as people began to question religion and the # of heretics increased
 * 5) universities founded
 * 6) leads to western Europe rediscovering ancient past

__**Missionary Outreach Islam**__ __**Buddhism**__
 * begins in the Middle East
 * spreads to all of the Middle east, Africa, India, and heads towards Europe
 * believes everyone should be converted
 * builds an empire in the Middle East and takes over India
 * tries to get rid of other religions such as Hinduism
 * 2 kinds: Shia and Sunni
 * __Christianity__**
 * spread throughout all of Europe
 * builds empires
 * believes everyone should be converted
 * spreads to Russia
 * 2 kinds: Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
 * __Confucianism__**
 * begins in China
 * spreads to Korea and Japan willingly
 * spread to Vietnam reluctantly (they held on to their traditions)
 * practical politics, morality, and relationships
 * changes to Neo-Confucianism after Buddhism becomes a threat, uses Buddhist ideas
 * begins in India
 * spreads to Korea, China, and Japan
 * peaceful, quiet, meditation
 * becomes a threat to Chinese Confucianism and Daoism
 * 2 kinds: Mahayana and Zen(Chan)

Sources: Princeton Review (pgs 132,137,138,143,149,151,162, 163)