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The Egyptians were horrified at the deaths of their sons and were urgent to leave hastily before any more people died.
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When God finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him two tablets of stone inscribed by the very finger of God. The tablets contained the Ten Commandments.
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The Torah has many different meanings. It can mean the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Which is known as the Written Torah. It can also mean the continued narrative from all the 24 books.
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It was destroyed by the King of Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar), when he conquered Jerusalem. There are remains of the temple on the south hill of the City of David.
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Emperor Constantine died in 337 CE of an illness, which one we don't know. He fell ill during his campaign against the Persians. He is baptized on his death bed.
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Jesus is stripped and nailed to the Cross. Above his head is placed a sign that says 'King of the Jews'.
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The letter addresses division within the Christian community about whether new converts needed to be circumcised and follow the prescriptions of the Mosaic Law.
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A fire broke out among the shops lining the Circus Maximus. History has blamed Nero for the disaster, implying that he started the fire so that he could bypass the senate and rebuild Rome to his liking.
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Roman leaders banned some religions because a ruler of Rome considered a religion a problem. Since Jews believed their God was the only god, some Romans thought the Jews insulted Rome's gods by not praying to them.
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The emperor Constantine gave the Christians freedom of religion in the Edict of MIlan, and by 380 it was an official Roman religion.
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Muhammad was born in the year 570 in the town of Mecca, a mountain town in the high desert plateau of western Arabia.
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Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel.
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A disagreement over succession after Mohammed's death in 632 split Muslims into Islam's two main sects, Sunni and Shia.
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Hashim led 12,000 troops from Ctesiphon to win a victory over the Persians at the Battle of Jalawla.
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When the puppet ruler Hishām III was deposed and the caliphate disintegrated into the so-called kingdoms of the taifa.
