The main reason why Christianity spread in the Byzantine Empire is that decades prior to the emergence of the Empire, Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, with they Edict of Milan, which he decreed in 313 AD.
We must remember that the Byzantine Empire is simply the Eastern Roman Empire, and when the Middle Ages started, the Byzantine Empire held land that had been christianizing for a over a century. Only a few areas of the Empire had to christianized in the Middle Ages, essentially areas at the edges of the Empire.
Well, before the constitution that we all know that defines the United States, there was the Articles of Confederation that was the <em><u>original</u></em> document.
Barlett claimed that Hitler could have climbed down if Chamberlain stood firm and did not make any appeasement. He believed that Hitler doesn't have the support of his people. He thought that if only Chamberlain at that time wage war in Germany, Hitler would easily be defeated.