100‚ the Roman law made Christianity illegal. If you were a Christian‚ and the Romans found out‚ you would be persecuted. It took about 200 years to make it legal‚ and we can thank Constantine. Constantine was a huge influence on the Christians and he helped them thrive. The Christians were better off after Constantine declared Christianity legal because he issued the Edict of Milan‚ which granted freedom of worship to Christians in the Roman Empire. They could no longer be punished by law for practicing
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threats to the government as they questioned the ways of the Roman government and the Jewish establishment. Over time‚ Christianity went from being a widely persecuted and looked-down upon religion to being widely accepted following the conversion of Constantine. Around the time of Jesus’s birth and rise to prominence‚ Jewish people in the Roman empire were being widely oppressed and exiled‚ sent into diaspora and shunned from their home in Judea and sent to Babylonia. They were publicly insulted
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his rule Constantine decided to reunite the two under one rule‚ but also move the capitol to the east for strategic purposes. This allowed Germanic tribes to migrate into the east when they were attacked by the Huns. Germanic migrations combined with the lack of leadership led to the collapse of the east. Later under Justinian rule troops were sent to regain eastern Rome‚ but the land was again lost after his death. Rome also had a change in their religious beliefs. Before Constantine Rome had
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Ashoka and Constantine were converts to their respective new faiths‚ also‚ both wanted to focus more on what they truly believed in and yet they had to find a balance in between faith and politics in order to rule their kingdoms in a proficient way. They were also similar in the sense that they had a significant impact in the land they resided in. Still‚ even though Constantine and Ashoka were kind of similar‚ they still had their differences. For example‚ one difference is how Constantine had to deal
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Tiffany Shionaka Christianity first started as a religious cult evolving from Judaism. Despite its Jewish origins‚ it was not long before Christianity regarded itself as something other than a new Jewish sect. The first Christian council concluded that pagan converts to Christianity did not have to follow Jewish ritual laws. Soon‚ converts to Christianity were almost exclusively pagans and Christianity moved further away from Judaism. Christians believed in one God who worked the world (monotheism)
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religion was never again discriminated and its followers were never again persecuted or killed. The Christian religion was very important to the poor people because they did not have to sacrifice anything in return to be able to talk to God. Constantine the Great‚ was a great emperor that established Christianity
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Think about sitting in a theatre watching a play. You can get lost in a story when an actor does his job correctly. If that actor has sincerity and conviction in his tone then it is easy to believe his character. The primary reason - coming from prior knowledge in a World Religions class - behind the rapid spread of Christianity was word of mouth. In the time of the Roman Empire there was not one single enforced religion. They were tolerant of all religion and due to the constructions of roads communication
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There were many reasons that influenced Christianity in western civilization. There were three people who had a lot to do with the growth of Christianity and they were Paul or the Apostle Paul‚ Constantine who was an emperor of Rome and Theodosius who was also an emperor of Rome but took the beliefs of Constantine even further. After Jesus death some believed that Jesus was lord. Paul who never met Jesus in the flesh was the founder of Christianity. When he was still young in Jerusalem he was actually
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With the example of the Portrait of Constantine ‚ the first Christian emperor created in 330 CE‚ there’s a noticeable style change. His eyes are big and cartoon like unlike before in the Bust of Caracalla‚ also a Roman emperor created in 217 CE. With the sculpture of Caracalla He looks lifelike and like he is really staring at you. The same style as constantine carries on to the earliest depictions of Christ. In the catacombs of Rome Christ was seen
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disappearance of Constantine‚ the maid who raised her. She had been writing to Skeeter while she was away at college and her last letter promised a surprise upon her homecoming. Skeeter’s family tells her that Constantine suddenly quit‚ then went to live with relatives in Chicago. Skeeter does not believe that Constantine would just leave and continually pursues anyone she thinks has information about her to come forth‚ but no one will discuss her disappearance The life that Constantine led while being
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