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Persecution of Christians by the Romans facilitated the rapid growth and spread of Christianity.
In the first three centuries, there was a lot of persecution of the Christian Church by Roman authorities. This ended up having a significant historical effect in that many Christians fled far and wide in the old world and wherever they went they preached the gospel of Christ.
About 12 emperors of Rome in the period 30 t0 311AD went out of their way to persecute Christians, and it was in this periods that Christianity spread widest.
During 1200 to 1450, Timbuktu had the largest library in the world and it held hundreds of thousands of books. Their library brought them great wealth and prosperity. However, after Chris Columbus and his Spanish explorers discovered the Americas and eventually started the Columbian Exchange, Africans were greatly disadvantaged. The Europeans captured millions of West Africans and transported them to the Americas as slaves. Timbuktu was located in West Africa. Their library is their biggest token of wealth after all the horror all the enslaved West Africans went through.
People thought that large feet for women were basically a crime, so foot bindings were popular.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Insurance is a financial service that offers a kind of protection in the event of unforeseen damage, injury, or loss.
A premium is the cost of a type of insurance that is paid at a regular interval.
A copayment is a money a consumer must pay to share the costs of a payout.
When we talk about financial services, insurance helps people to share liability with the insurance company. That is why the client buys insurance, to diminish or mitigate the risk in the case of an event. For that to happen, the client has to pay for the premium, that is the kind if the insurance that is going to protect the client and be valid in the case of an event. When the client uses the insurance, it has to make a copayment that shares the costs of the payout.