Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire

Jesus of Nazareth

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Central figure of religion. Many believe he was the incarnation of god himself. When people are dead Jesus will judge what to do with it and analyze it. PS I don't know what I am talking about on this slide.

Paul of Tarsus

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1. Paul of Tarsus is important because he taught Jesus the gospel of Christ to the first world century.
2. He is also important because he thought and practiced the religion this was part of the spreading of Christianity.
3. 13-27 books in new Testament was dedicated to Paul of tarsus. These all tie together because growth in Christianity has severely increased because of the steps that this man took.

Roman Rule of Israel (begins)

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1. The roman Rule of Israel, conquest/ fight over land. This event was when the Jews broke the Roman laws and declared the Kingdome of Rome.
2. This rule was to keep the Jews form immigrating. this was important because Rome did not want the Jews to be spreading across Europe.

Great Fire

64

1.Nero had a grand plan to burn down ⅓ of Rome to create and build an elaborate series of palaces. 2.Nero started the fire so he bypass the senate and rebuild Rome the way he wanted it to be. 3. Nero blamed the fire on Christians and burning all Christians as a human torch. 4. 10/14 districts were destroyed by the fire These are all important because all of the information given is how the Great Rome fire happened, just because of this horrible man.

Perpetua

203

1. Christian Nobleman who lived in Africa where Christianity was very common and Emperor Septimius came to north Africa to set a rule were you could no longer be a Christian your you will be prosecuted. 2 This ties to the prosecution of the Christians because Perpetua and her family and many more people, in fact most in the population was Christian. This impacted there community so much because most of the people were Christian and were later prosecuted.

Constantine the Great

272

1.He played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which declared religious tolerance for Christianity in the Roman empire.
2. Constantine a religions leader that put religious tolerances on Christians
3. Constantine influenced kids to believe in his religion
4. he created a religious tolerance he wanted people to believe in Christianity and go to his church to talk about Jesus grave site.

Great Persecution of 303

303

1 and 2. Diocletian, Maximum, Constantius and Galerius created a persecution against the Christians because the Christians where not following the traditional religion that they were suppose to practice.
3. also all of the 4 listed names above strongly stuck to the rule of the persecution, the text states that they did not let anyone persecutors not letting everyone testify.
4. Christian churches that did not follow the rules. it didn't feel right

Battle of Milvian Bridge

312

1. This battle of Milvian Bridge was a battle between Constantine I and Maxentius to gain the routs to Tetrarchy. The reason they won was because the people fighting on Constantine 1 side had the desire to fight because they had the gift from god and god granted them the right to win this battle.

Edict of Milan

313

1.The Edict of Milan was created for the people believe in the Christian religion and was Created by Licinius and Constantine.
2. Licinius and Constantine created this because they felt like excluding the People that believe in a different religion is wrong.
3. this rule did not have to be followed intel they posted the final rule 4.years later. this is significant because 2 years is a long time to be mistreated.

Emperor Theodosius

379

1. Theodosius was famous for making Christianity state religion of ancient Rome.
2. This is very important because he did not like how his son was killed for no reason and took matters into his own hands and made the Rome religion Christianity.
3. Theodosius claimed himself as a Christian and ordered council Constantinople to make a stop of the Arian heresy. This is important because the Arian heresy divided that empire from his country in have for over half a century.