Original sentence: Campaigns like this featured political conversions by Christian Kings to adopt Christianity as a means of breaking resito to secular authority.Certain campaigns by secular authorities such as that implemented by Charlamagne against the Saxons in the Saxon Wars were at times a very violent process, but these were aimed at imperial expansion of authority rather than directed at the conversion of the sword.Consequently, while the initial converts were found among the Jewish populations, the development of the Orthodox Church as an aspect of State society occurred through the cooption of State Religion into the ethos of Christianity and only then was conversion of the large rural population accomplished.Here, the conversion was a slow and gradual process where coercion was limited in later years by Imperial Christian autorities suppressing various schools and sects and orders of Pagan rites due to their relationship with the state.Later conversions happened among the Greco-Roman-Celtic populations over centuries, again mostly among it's urban population and only spread to rural populations in much later centuries.The initial conversion of the Roman Empire occurred mostly in urban areas of Europe, where the first converts occurred through the conversion of most of the Jewish population.The term pagan which means country-person is derived from this historical transition.This is in contrast to the more general method throughout the entire Roman Empire, where the process of Christianization was accomplished almost entirely by evangalism.This practice of Christianization was almost entirely peaceful
Edited sentence: In long-settled and urban areas of Europe, Christianizing the indigenous populations also involved the conversion of both Muslims and Jews.The Christian sources describe and justify the punishments meted out to the intransigent, but ordinarily omit instances of coercion.This practice of Christianization has at times been relatively peaceful and at times has been a very violent process, ranging from political conversions to adopt Christianity to military campaigns to force conversion upon native populances