### German: Seit über eintausend Jahren hatte die christliche Religion die europäischen Staaten trotz unterschiedlicher Sprachen und Gebräuche zusammengehalten.
### English: For more than a thousand years, the Christian religion had held the European states together despite diffeent languages and customs.
### Errors: There is a minor omitted final punctuation error in the English translation.

### Improved English: For more than a thousand years, the Christian religion had held the European states together despite different languages and customs.
