Christianity in Ancient Rome 

In 64 AD, after the Great Fire of Rome that had destroyed an entire two-thirds of the great city. Since the Emperor Nero, the current emperor, was away during the event, to avoid being blamed because of his incompetence, he diverted the attention of the people away from him by providing an easy scapegoat: the Christians. Emperor Nero (Emperor of Rome 54 CE - 68 CE) wasted no time. He had all the Christians in Rome arrested and tortured before executing them with lavish publicity, further reinforcing the suspicion of them being the cause of the fire. Some were crucified, some were thrown in with wild animals to be eaten alive, while others were burned on stakes–torched to death.

Despite this, Nero's persecution of the Christians was very brief, it was still horrible. When asked other emperors such as Emperor Trajan on how to deal with Christians,

 he replied that they should not be actively pursued. However, should they be caught in public and refuse to abandon their beliefs, they will be severely punished.

As such, this meant taking a more relaxed approach toward ancient Jewish laws about food and circumcision. Doing so was the same as slapping the old Jewish traditions, offending them. But it was also because of this that Christianity was able to spread so quickly. Peter, who had claim to have a vision of Jesus to help him continue spreading Christianity, had also spread Christianity a lot. Peter preached others to become Christian, taught the how to love eachother and forgive one another.

In the early middle ages after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, missionary activites spread Christianity to the west among the German people. During the High Middle Ages, eastern and western Christianity grew apart, leading to the East-West Schism of 1054.

 Why would an emperor use a belief to help them govern?

Emperor Constantine picked Christianity to be the leading main religion of the empire because of it's believers unity and lack of diversity, and to gain public support as the religion favors all men regardless of gender, race, and social status. To be able to secure his position in the political stage, Emperor Constantine needed mass public and the unanimous support of the populace in order to ensure the foundation of his position in power. 

Hence, choosing Christianity benefitted him the most. The fact that Christianity is a monotheistic religion further reinsured it's lack of diversity, meaning that the populace would have a unified religion and will have very little internal struggles and would lessen the chances of attempted coups and rebellions. 

how did christianity spread across the world?

&nbsp; After the Jesus had been sentenced to death and died, his teachings continued to travel far and wide and began to propagate to various Jewish communities throughout the empire. Such a result had been caused by the enthusiastic and devout apostles, such as Paul and Peter Paul, had been a devout jew, but has came to believe in Christianity. Romans thinks of him as one of their own. Even as a jew, he had helped perswade people to become Christians. He went to journeys to teach people that werne’t Christian, he had created new Christian groupds, and created new teachings of faith. He was really passionate. But because he went spreading beliefs, jewish leaders weren’t very fond of him due to the fact that he was jewish but spreading Christian beliefs. The Roman Authorities thinks that paul is a trouble maker, and was arrested and executed in the end.

As such, having a unified religion will increase said Empire's stability, and consequently, it's prowess and strength. Because of this, Constantine was able to make the empire prosper internally and grant the stability that will make the Constantinian Dynasty–that will last for an approximate 60 years before ending at Emperor Constantinius II at 361 CE–one of the most successful dynasties of it's time. This period of time brought the empire immense wealth and prosperity by improving the Roman army's frontlines and building defensive fortresses–castles–which had further increased the empire's strength and the royal family's popularity. 

Constantine will find the great city, Constantinople, which will eclipse the city of Rome itself and will soon become the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire.Constantinople, which will become the richest city during that period of time.&nbsp;

Emperor Diocletian had also started the persecution of Christianity and began to destroy many temples, break Christian crosses and burn sacred books. Christians were even fired from Roman jobs. But, after emperor Constantine stepped up and became the Roman Emperor, everything about the Christians had changed. When emperor Constantine first became emperor, about 10% of the total Roman population were Christian, but as he became sole Emperor, he made Christianity the empire's main religion. He spent a lot of money on repairing damaged churches and temples and propagating the religion throughout the empire. By the time it was emperor Theodosius' reign, the temples had then grown into power, and had started persecuting pagan religions, and people who weren neither Christian nor Jewish, just like what been done to the Christians before.

Christianity in Ancient Rome

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&nbsp; How did Christianity change the Roman Empire?

At first, Christians were abused. Christians weren’t treated fairly and had been persecuted. For instance, Emperor Trajan thought that Christians should be executed unless they deny their god and believe in their Hellenistic roman gods; and emperor Decius who ordered everyone to believe in gods and had made the most remarkable imperial edict at the time which the Christians didn't take too well. To those who didn’t listen would be punished and executed.

Christianity in the Roman empire changed the societal structure that had been established in the Roman culture whereby slaves, women and the poor were segregated by the rich. This highly fueled Christianity while at the same time fragmented other groups.

Bible Study In Christian communities,&nbsp;Bible study&nbsp;is the study of the Bible by ordinary people as a personal&nbsp;religious or spiritual practice. They believe that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness Baptism a Christian religious rite of sprinkling water on to a person's forehead or immersing them in water, meaning purification or regeneration and admission to the Christian Church.

Jesus was believed that he would bring an end to roman rule, as per his teachings where he is claimed to be the king of Jews and that they would rebel against the Roman Empire. But the Romans would have none of that and Jesus was arrested and sentenced to death because the romans believed that he was a parasite to the empire and the imperial family for sharing his beliefs, consequently having him arrested nailed to a wooden cross. A fantastic method of death with a fancy name called crucifixion. Three days after his death, Jesus’s tomb was found empty, and the giant boulder blocking it's entrance–which would've been impossible to move without a number of people pushing it at once–had been moved to the side, all in a single night. Many people claimed to have seen visions of Jesus risen from dead, such as Peter–one of his beloved disciples.

Since the Renaissance era, with western colonialism, Christianity has expanded throughout the world. Today there are more than two billion Christians worldwide, and Christianity has become the world's largest religion.

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the 10 things Christians are not allowed to do

The Ten Commandments • You shall have no other gods but me • No graven images or likenesses. • Not take the LORD's name in vain. • Remember the sabbath day. • Respect your father and mother. • You must not kill. • You must not commit adultery. •You must not steal • You must not give false evidence against your neighbour. • You must not covet (neighbour's house, neighbour's wife, neighbour's slaves, animals, or anything else)

He had performed miracles of healing the sick, like when he cured the blind man when he was travelling to jerusalem; walking on water, when he and his apostles went fishing; and raising the dead, when revived Lazarus of Bethany after his initial terminal death. He also claimed that there was life after death.

For over 30 years, Paul continued to travel throughout the empire, traveling more than 16,000 km. He preached in some of the empire's major and most important cities. Although cities and hubs like Ephesus, Philippi, and Corinth were very grand and magnificent, like all major cities, they housed tens of thousands of poor and impoverished citizens who lived in the slums, desperate for help–the perfect audience for the Christian message of eternal life in utopia. Just like his mentor, Jesus, Paul preached to their homes. However, Paul also preached to the gentiles–which are the non-jews–as he believed that everyone should know about Christianity; something Jesus had not done.

Christians believes that there is only one god, which they call either Yahweh or Jehovah as there is no direct translation of God's name from ancient Hebrew. Christians see Jesus as the prophet of god who was sent to mankind to save them from death and sin.

Jesus Christ taught that he was Son of God, that he was sent here by the Lord to save them all from evil that is rife at the time. Jesus said that he had come to fulfil God's law rather than teach it. Jesus preached love, tolerance, and forgiveness and that making these actions the epicentre of your world will grant you eternal life. His teachings– briefly summarized–is to love God, the love of God, and love of one's neighbour. To forgive others with whatever they have done to you, to help the needed, and to love each other.

How did people practice Christianity?

-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bible study -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sing traditions ( such as drums, guitars, and movements -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some protestant traditions the term priest is used -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Festivals ( holy week, good Friday, Pentecost, harvest palm Sunday, Lent, wilderness, and advent. -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Saints day ( st. Patrick’s day) -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prayer o&nbsp;&nbsp;Is the means by which Christians communicate with their god o&nbsp;&nbsp;Some prayers are formal and part of a ritual laid down while others are personal and spontaneouse, and come from a personal need o&nbsp;&nbsp;Prayer is often directed to god as father, as taught by jesus, some traditions encourage prayere to gods though saints and martyrs -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The church o&nbsp;&nbsp;The church is fundamental to velievers o&nbsp;&nbsp;It is recognized as god’s body on earth o&nbsp;&nbsp;The church is the place wehre the Christian faith is nurtured and where the holy spirit is manifest on earth o&nbsp;&nbsp;It is were Christians received into the faith -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Baptism -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Earaches

Christians also believe in the Holy Trinity, which is not that there are three gods, but rather, God has three separate parts which are namely god, the father; the son; and the holy spirit. Christians don’t believe in three gods, it’s just&nbsp;that depending on the division of Christianity, they may believe that God himself had taken human form as Jesus Christ and is his incarnation on Earth, and that God is present today through the work of the Holy Spirit and evident in the actions of believers; or that Jesus was merely a prophet/ messenger who only came to deliver his good news and is not God himself, both of which are the beliefs of two of the major divisions or Christianity. These days, the word saint is most commonly used to refer to a Christian who has lived a particularly good and holy life on earth, and with whom miracles are claimed to have been associated after their death.

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