Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire

Jesus of Nazareth

33

1) Jesus was a first century Jewish preacher and religious leader
2) Most Christians believe he is technically God or another version
3)wasn't divine nor resurrected
4) he was born from a woman named Mary god performed miracles
5) people believed that he rose from the dead
this relates because it shows what people believed or lived by for a religion

Paul of Tarsus

64

1) it is known as Saint Paul and known by his Jewish name Saul of Tarsus
2) he taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world
3) he had a book that was half of Acts deals with Paul's life and works
4) he wrote 13 of the 27 books in the New Testament
5) Paul's influence on Christian thought and practice was thought as stupid or worthless

The great roman Fire

64

1) Emperor Nero blamed the devastation on the Christian community in the city
2) Nero was playing the fiddle while his city went up in flames
3) poorly constructed wooden apartment buildings
4) the fire was finally extinguished six days later, 10 of Rome’s 14 districts were burned
5) people thought Nero wanted to clear land to build his new palace it relates because he blames the Christians

roman rule of israel begins

66

1) In 66 AD the First Jewish/Roman War began
2) The Romans destroyed so much of the Temple in Jerusalem
3)Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan giving official recognition to Christianity as a legal religion
4) Judaism was officially recognized as a legal religion
5)Christianity became the state church of the Roman Empire.

Perpetua

203

1) he was born 18 and died March 7, 203
2) she had a journal recounting her trial and imprisonment
3)Her text is one of the rare surviving documents written by a woman in the ancient world.
4)Sometime after 201, the Roman emperor forbid any conversion to Christianity
5)Perpetua gave her diary to another Christian, who then continued the story

Great Persecution of 303 CE

303

1) It caused the destruction of churches and the torture and execution of Christians who refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.
2) Diocletian had instituted in the 290s
3)Edicts disabled the Christians from meeting and Bibles are burnt in public
4)all Christians were ordered to sacrifice on pain of death
5)2,500 and 3,500 are killed

Battle of Milvian Bridge

312

1)it is an important route over the Tiber
2)The monument does not show any Christians symbolism
3) there were two letters of Christ's name in Greek was painted on the soldiers' shields to symbolize that they trusted in him
4) Maxentius body was later taken from the river and then it was decapitated
5) his head was paraded through the streets of Rome on the day following the battle to symbolize that he was dead
this symbolizes Christians because of the shield that they used with his name on it

Edict of Milan

313

1) it was letter signed by the Roman emperors Constantine and Clinicians that said religious toleration in the Roman Empire
2)The letter was first seen in February 313 AD and stopped the persecution of Christians
3)There had been already an edict of toleration by the emperor Galerius in 311
4) They were indulgences not favors
5)One part said "they shall pray to their God for our safety, for that of the republic"

Constantine the Great

337

1) He prepared the way for the growth of Byzantine and Western medieval culture
2) he ruled between 306 and 337 AD
3) He Brought back government, separating civil and military authorities
4) Constantine convinced people to do successful campaigns against the tribes on the Roman frontiers
5) He built a new imperial residence at Byzantium and renamed the city Constantinople

Emperor Theodosius

395

1) was a Roman Emperor from 379 to 395
2) Zeno would take over after Julius Nepotist's death in 480.
3) he banned the pagan rituals for the Olympics in Ancient Greece
4) Theodosius was told to fight two destructive civil wars
5) successively defeating the usurpers Magus Maximum in 387–388