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Jesus was a Jewish speaker and religious person, he taught many people about Christianity
- First-century Jewish speaker and religious leader
- Referred to as Jesus Christ and the Messia
- Jesus went missing when their parents visited Jerusalem
- Mary and Joesph went to find him and saw him teaching at the temple
- Jesus was a well-rounded person he could read, paraphrase, and debate scripture
- Born in Judea in 4 BCE and died in Jerusalem in 30 CE -
Paul was at first not a follower of Jesus. Once Jesus died Paul became a devoted follower.
- After Jesus's death, Paul was one of the Twelve Apostles
- He wrote the epistles in the New Testament
- He was Jewish and Roman, therefore, he tried to preach to both of them
- He was a pharisee and was in the persecution of Christians
- He traveled across many lands while he was preaching about his beliefs
Paul was born 10 CE and died 67 CE -
Nero persuaded Roman's to think that the Christians started the fire.
- Nero the emperor of Rome @ the time was thought to have started & kept the fire burning
- Nero was angry w/ the Senate & the people
- The people of Rome didn't like his plans for Rome
- Even though Nero most likely started the Christians were blamed
- The fire started in the merchant shops that were next to Roman's chariot stadium
- The fire lasted six days, it started July 18, 64 CE & ended July 24, 64 AD -
Once Rome conquered Israel, they treated them fairly well. The conquering, however, was not so pleasant they destroyed many of there artifacts.
- Roman destroyed a lot of the Jewish temple in Juerlselm
- Once Rome conquered they gave Jewish people many rights
- Jewish communities thrived and had many privileges
- Julius Caesar made Judaism a legal religion
- Herod the Great was designated king of the Jews by the Roman Senate
The conquering started in 66 CE -
Perpetua was a Christian martyr of the 3rd century, that was put to death because of her religion.
- She wrote The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
- She was a Chrisitan and the mother of a young son
- She was put to death because of her religious convictions
- One of the five Christians that died in the arena
- Nobody knows who her husband was because she was a slave
Born in 181 CE died 203 CE -
He was the 1st Christian emperor, one of the main reasons that Christianity is a popular religion.
- He came into power during the 4th century
- He saw a symbol before the battle of Milivian Bridge it had a cross in the sky
- Written in Greek words it said under this sign conquer
- He won the battle and attributed the victory to Christians, Christ, God
- He signed the Edict of Milan making Christianity legal in 313 CE
- Born February 27, 280 died May 22, 337 -
Diocletian convinced the people of Rome that the Christians were the reason for all of Romes problems
- Diocletian was hoping to unite Rome by making a common enemy
- He made an edict that allowed churches, scriptures to be destroyed
- He also has Christian assemblies outlawed
- He also made many other edicts taking away their legal rights
- He made Christians practice other traditional religions
The Great Persecution started in 303 CE and ended in 311 CE -
A battle between two Emperors, Constantine had a vision of two greek letters before the battle that then were put on the Roman soldier's shields.
- The battle happened between the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius
- Constantine won, this win lead him to rule all of Rome
- Maxentius drowned in the River Tiber
- Constantine had a vision from God before the battle
- The vision was a promise to victory for that battle
The battle was in 312 CE -
An official proclamation saying the Christianity should be tolerated and not discriminated
- This brought the spread of Christianity
- Emperor Theodosius signed this Edict of Milan
- Edict of Milan gave rights to Christians and brought them back into society
- This edict was unlike the many before it, this edict effectively established toleration for Christianity
- This Edict also granted everyone the ability to worship whoever and however, they would like
- signed in 313 AD -
Theodosius made Christianity not only well known & encouraged but made it the official religion of Rome.
- Theodosius made everyone be Christian
- He was the last to rule before Rome was split between east & west
- He made the Edict of Thessalonica this made specifically Nicene Christianity the religion of the Roman empire
- most of the other Christian sects lost their legal status
- their belongings were taken by the Roman government never 2 be seen again
Born 347 AD died 395 AD
