Rise of Christianity of Roman Empire

Great Persecution of Christians

303 BCE

1.) The Great Persecution was the last and most brutal attacks against the Christians.
2.) The great persecution was carried out by Emperor Diocletian
3.) Diocletian started out by not wanting to kill the Christians because it seemed as if the more he killed the stronger the Christians became.
3.) Diocletian then had a change of heart and became rapidly killing innocent Christians
4.) After Diocletian was off the throne Gallerias continued the killing

Perpetua

181 BCE

1.) Prepetua was one of five people captured first by the Emperor Septimius
2.) Each of the five taken were questioned by the governor and asked if they were christian.
3.) They each told the governor that they were christian and each were sacrificed
4.) when they got to asking if Prepetua was christian her father ran in begging for her to say that she was not
5.) Prepetua refused to and told them that she was a christian and she was put in the arena to be killed by wild animals.

Roman Rule of Israel

63 BCE

1.) the last attempt to restore former glory of the Hasmonean dynasty
2.) Matthias Antigonous made the last attempt to save this era but was defeated and killed which brought the end
3.)The land later became the Roman empire
4.) Later the Romans appointed Herod to be the King of Judea
5.) http://knowingtest.blogspot.com/2014/08/usukisrael-empire-same-as-roman-empire.html

Jesus of Nazareth

4 BCE

1.)Jesus was a first century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
2.)Central figure of Christianity
3.)Christians believe that Jesus is the incarnation of God
4.)People believed that Jesus was the son of God
5.)Roman soldiers killed Jesus by crucifixion

https://pixels.com/featured/jesus-of-nazareth-tina-lecour.html

Paul of Tarsus

4 BCE

1.) A man who once wanted to put Christians to death became one of the Church’s greatest saints.
2.)Saul began to persecute Jesus’ followers. He demanded that they give up their new faith. But no matter what he did, more and more people became followers of Christ.
3.) Saint Paul’s change of heart is called his conversion. We celebrate this great event each year on January 25.
4.) Paul traveled to many different countries to teach others about Jesus.

Great Fire of Rome

64

1.)The great fire of Rome was a fire that lasted 6 days until being detained
2.) Nero was thought to have started the fire because he wanted to rebuild and change parts of Rome.
3.)Nero then blamed it on the Christians because the part in which they were living was not burned down
4.) When the smoked cleared 10 out of 14 districts had been ruined
5.)https://listverse.com/2017/04/07/10-completely-different-views-on-the-great-fire-of-rome/

Constantine the Great

272

1.) He was the first Roman Emperor to accept the Christian religion
2.) Not only did he influence the Roman Empire to become christian but it the next generation and so on.
3.) Constantine fought the battle of Milvian Bridge in the name of the christian god.
4.) In a dream that Constantine he was told to paint the Christian monogram on his soldiers shields.
5.) The other theory given is that Constantine saw the message of God in the sky

Battle of Milivan Bridge

312

This battle was against the two Roman emperors Constantine and Maxentius 2.) The name of the battle comes from the Milivan bridge a very important route over the Tiber river.3.) Constantine won this battle started to end the Tetrachy and become sole ruler of the Roman Empire. 4.) The battle fought Milvian Bridge outside of Rome was a crucial moment in a civil war that ended in Constantine as a sole ruler of the Roman empire and Christianity established it as the main religion of rome.

Edict of Milan

313

1.) The Edict of Milan was a letter signed by the at the time Emperors, Constantine and Licinius
2.) The letter said that the whole Roman empire was to be religiously tolerating.
3.) It was the outcome of a political agreement concluded in Milan
4.) http://earlyworldhistory.blogspot.com/2012/02/edict-of-milan.html

Emperor Theodosius

347

1.) Was the last to rule over both eastern and western Rome
2.) He fought against the Goths and Barbarians that invaded Rome.
3.)His resources were not sufficient to destroy them or drive them out which had been Roman policy for centuries in dealing with invaders.
4.)He established Christianity as the state religion and successfully defended it against paganism and Arianism.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-I