Portuguese colonization in the 1400s inaugurated an era of aggressive European expansion across the Atlantic. The Spanish, threatened by the Portuguese monopoly on enslaved Africans and expansion in the Atlantic, started their own colonization project with Christopher Columbus in 1492
<span>The spread of Christianity to non-Jews was significant because it helped Christianity to emerge as a separate faith. The preaching of the gospel to non Jews encouraged the split between Christianity and Judaism during the first century. And as time goes on it help to establish the Christian faith as a religion on its own different from other religions.</span><span />
