The axum empire was one of the first places to produce illuminated manuscripts. these books spread christianity throughout the empire because they: a. developed a formal artistic style that created a unified artistic community. b. allowed illiterate citizens to understand the key points of the stories. c. incorporated traditional axum ideals with the new christian beliefs. d. discouraged the oral tradition of telling stories and performing rituals.

Delegates: representatives who cast votes at a political party's national convention. binding: if a primary or caucus is “binding” that means the delegates won in that contest are legally bound to vote for a particular candidate at the parties national convention.a primary is a preliminary election used to determine a party's nominee for a specific office. the winner of the party's caucus, or primary, wins the party nomination for that state. then the delegates meet at their party's national party convention, which is a formal gathering of all party delegates from all states.