World Religion

  • 1446 BCE

    Moses receives the 10 commandments

    Moses receives the 10 commandments
    Moses was told by god what people should live by
  • 1312 BCE

    Torah was written

    The Torah was written and given to Moses atop mount Sinai
  • 1300 BCE

    Hebrews escape Egypt under Moses

    People fled with Moses from the Egyptian people
  • 30

    jesus' followers settle in jerusalem

    Jesus' early followers from Galilee settle in Jerusalem. They are known as "the Twelve."
  • 33

    jesus was crucified by the romans

    Jesus was arrested for vandalism and was found guilty, punishment was Crucifixion
  • 64

    great fire in rome

    Great Fire in Rome; Nero blames and executes Christians
  • 70

    Fall of the temple in jerusalem

    The romans took over jerusalem, and destroyed the second temple
  • 85

    judaism creates a curse for heretics

    "Curse against Heretics" (Birkath ha-minim) added to Jewish synagogue benedictions, with the intent of excluding Christians.
  • 249

    First major persecution of Christians under emperor Decius

    Emperor Decius starts killing and arresting people he suspected of worshiping christianity
  • 313

    Romans ban christianity

    The romans intermittently persecuted christians from 64 ce to 313 ce
  • 323

    Christianity becomes the main religion for the roman empire

    Emporor constantine accepted christianity as his own religion
  • 571

    Mohammad is Born

  • 610

    Quran was discovered by mohummad

    Mohummad receives a vision from god and sees the quran
  • 632

    islam splits into 2 parts

    muhamad didn't have any direct descendants, so shia follows the closest to his bloodline, and sunni follows the "goodest" muslim
  • 1096

    The First Crusade

    Basically, people said my god is right, no mine is, and it caused subsequent wars