Around 300 A.
D.
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With these changes Christian Europe broke radically from its own past and established practices which diverged markedly from those of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his brother\'s widow and a number of other central practices.
What had previously been the norm - Marriage to close kin - became the new taboo.
European patterns of Marriage and kinship were turned on their head.
Around 300 A.
D