Answer: The Babylonians took over the Fertile Crescent.
Explanation:
The Fertile Crescent is an area in the middle east that runs from the Persian Gulf and curves around Mesopotamia to include parts of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt.
This area is often hailed as the Cradle of Civilisation as the inhabitants pioneered Agriculture, literacy and other things.
Around 2000 BC, the late Babylonian Empire took over the Fertile Crescent thereby leading to an unprecedented rise in the power of the Babylonian Empire.
Their rule was further consolidated by great emperors like Hammurabi who is quite famous for his principles of law known as ''Hammurabi's Code''.
The worship of one god first emerge first of all in the Israelites. They believed in only one god who, in their belief, had made an arragement with them, so if they had followed him, he would gave them their liberty and freedom over other nation. From this religion, Catholic and Islam religion also would be born centuries later.
These were the essentials in the first century church: the communion supper was observed (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:25–26), prayers were offered up (1 Corinthians 14:15–16), songs were sung to the glory of God (Ephesians 5:19), a collection or offering was taken (1 Corinthians 16:2), and the Scriptures were read, preached and taught (Acts 20:7; Colossians 4:16; 2 Timothy 4:2).
I do not think he listed all in one passage, but he did let the churches know throughout his letters what they needed to do to hold a worship service. (the biblical passages you see, Acts was not written by Paul but it narrates his part of his life and ministry from chapters 9 thru 28).
They are important because besides praising God passionately, their faith was shared with others and more people were been converted to Christianity, so they needed to be nurtured spiritually to grow in their faith and know God better with the help of the church leaders through the Scripture.
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Lincoln??
I don’t get it but I think it’s in the question