. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. to the Saxons of Kent, 597 A. D. 13. King Arthur and the Round Table. 14. Music. CHAPTER XIII. THE SEVENTH CENTURY. I. THE RISE AND CONVERSION OF THE NEW EUROPE,THE RISE OF ARABIA TO POWER, AND THE SPREADOF MOHAMMEDANISM IN THE EAST. THE introduction of Christianity among theAnglo-Saxons greatly improves them in powerand civilization. The religion of Christ makes newconquests during this century, spreading among theSaxons, the Frieslanders, Westphalians, Thuringians,Danes, Swedes, German
. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. to the Saxons of Kent, 597 A. D. 13. King Arthur and the Round Table. 14. Music. CHAPTER XIII. THE SEVENTH CENTURY. I. THE RISE AND CONVERSION OF THE NEW EUROPE,THE RISE OF ARABIA TO POWER, AND THE SPREADOF MOHAMMEDANISM IN THE EAST. THE introduction of Christianity among theAnglo-Saxons greatly improves them in powerand civilization. The religion of Christ makes newconquests during this century, spreading among theSaxons, the Frieslanders, Westphalians, Thuringians,Danes, Swedes, Germans and Franks. By the con-cessions of Phocas the papacy attains a larger influ-ence and power. The Churches of Scotland andWales, as well as those of the Orient, repudiate theclaim of the papacy to pre-eminence. And especiallythe Waldensian Church in Italy refuses to submit tothis usurpation. It is stated that England acknowl-edged the papal supremacy in 601 and 607, when theArchbishops of Canterbury and York received thepallium from the popes. The Slavi found the King-dom of Servia and Croatia in NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. 185 1 he New Persian Empire, which began its careerin 225 A. D,, is completely subdued by the Arabsunder Othman in 651 Yezdejird was the last of itskings. Arabia begins, in this century, to take a frontrank in history through the valor of its race and itshearty acceptance of the new religion of Mohammed,and, in consequence, to assume a controlling influencein the affairs of the East, giving a new direction toits events, and promising to attain a similar supremacyin the affairs of the West. The Arabs profess descentfrom Abraham through Ishmael and Hagar, and theafiinity of their languages proves the Jew and Arab tobe a kindred race. II. SOVEREIGNS. KINGS OF THE FRANKS,(i. Merovingian Race.) Clotaire III 614 Dagobert and Chari- bert 628 Sigebert and Clovis II. 638 Childeric II 654 Thierry IV 679 Clovis III. (Pepin,Mayor of the Pal-ace, gover
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