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37 BCE
roman rule of israel
the Romans had taken Israel form the Jewish people and then started to persecute the Jews for only believing in one god instead of the many that the Romans believed in. This was a preciser for how they treat people of monotheistic religions. -
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Paul the apostle
thought never met Jesus he spred the word of Christianity across most of Rome but early in his life it was believed that he had persecuted monotheistic religions. -
33
Jesus
Jesus was and still is regarded as the son of god and he had started Christianity. Christians believe that he died on the cross on a Friday and rose on the Sunday. The Romans were the ones to put Jesus on the cross and kill him in the first place. -
64
Great Rome Fire
Rome caught on fire and burned 2/3 of the city and history has blamed the emperor Nero and Nero blamed the Christian's because the Christian's part of town was not burned. So they were persecuted and had to practice their religion in the shadows. -
303
great persecution of Christians
this was a time when Rome persecuted the Christians very brutally. They would feed them to the loins in the coliseum for everybody to see and they would burn them at the steak and they crucified them just like Jesus. -
312
Constantine
Constantine was fighting a war to become emperor and he had a vision to put the cross on all of his men's shields and if he did he would win the war and they won the war. Then he wrote the Edict of Milan and that gave the people of Rome freedom of religion. -
312
Battle of Milvian Bridge
Constantine and Maxentiuns were fight to see how would become the emperor of Rome. The day before the battle Constantine had a vision of a cross and he put it on his men's shields. -
313
Edict of Milan
Write by Constantine after he became emperor the Edict of Milan was written giving religions freedom to all in the Roman empire. He had written this out of respect for the religion of Christianity.
