1. Geography: With the fall of the Roman Empire the church emerged a divided entity geographically. Which modern countries were in the
eastern/Eastern Orthodox region?
Modern Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and North Africa
England, Wales, Portugal, and Spain
France, Italy, Switzerland, and Romania
South Africa, Greece, England, and Italy

Modern Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and North Africa

Explanation:

When the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, only the Easterm Roman Empire was left, which would survive the entirety of the Middle Ages, known in this time period as they "Byzantine Empire".

The lands that the Byzantine Empire ruled varied over time, and when it fell to the Turk in 1453 AD, it only controlled a very small area around Constantinople.

However, at first, in the Early Middle Ages, the Byzaninte Empire controlled a vast area that comprised Modern Greece, Turkey (Anatolia), the Levant (lebanon, Syria, Palestine), Egypt, parts of the Balkans, and even parts of Mesopotamia.

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion