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Compare* Latourette’s periodicity of Christian expansion:**

Advance (1)	0 - 500	500
Recession (1)	500 - 950	450
Advance (2)	950 - 1350	400
Recession (2)	1350 - 1500	150
Advance (3)	1500 - 1750	250
Recession (3)	1750 - 1815	65
Advance (4)	1815 - 1914ff	100+

It is also* not obvious why one should take the (approximate) year of Jesus’ birth rather than (say) his crucificion – except for convenience in a very approximate pattern.

*[See last previous entry]

**(E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 16:291)

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