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Scholars still debate the impact of Mithraism on Christianity. While many agree some parallel exists, such as the Christmas birthday of Christ, use of meals or communal meals as part of the worship, religious hierarchy, etc., others see that the connection is somewhat tenuous. Some of the similarities could be attributed to the impact of other religions and practices also could have adopted these practices . Mithraism and there are Christianity also had major theological differences in theology. Nevertheless, the spread of the religion of Mithra showed something had, in fact, happened where demonstrated that the world just before the rise of Christianity was beginning prepared to worship a common godadopt monotheistic religions. In other words, with the rise of By the major empires and states100 BC, we see by the 1st century CE very few there were empires spanning the globe. This helps to explain, in part, why the religion of Mithra became so popularthat spanned Eurasia. In fact, one Someone could go from Britain to India and then China, by only traversing through only four countries in the 1st century CE; so the facilitation of movement . Religious ideas could move from east to west across vast distances now meant that religious ideas moved both far and fastEurasia very quickly. This made the world a smaller place and religious ideas, such as Mithraism, began were able to spread rapidly along routes of trade and travel.

In summary, the rapid spread of Mithra from the 1st century CE shows that religious ideas could now move very fast across regions. This likely paved the way for Christianity in that many people began adopt the idea of shared religions or ideas for many different people. In other wordsWhile the Mithraism impact on Christianity is debatable, the rise of Mithra foreshadows the eventual rise of Christianity, whether it influences it substantially or not. This might The quick success of Mithra would have been one of the more important factors that showed the shown early Christians that it was possible to quickly spread their faith as the world became smaller.