The rise of Christianity:
Life and teachings of Jesus
- jesus born in bethlehem
- jesus grew up in nazareth
- baptized by John the baptist
- the twelve apostles
- we know most about him the gospels
- pilate arrested jesus and nailed him to a cross
- his body was placed in a tomb, we reincarnted 3 days later
- Paul wasn't christian , but then he had a vision of jesus. so he changes
- he wrote the epistles and stressed that jesus was the son of god and died for people's sins
- paul declared that christianity should welcome all converts
- in 132 AD, the jews tried to break free from Roman rule. many died
- most jews were driven from their homeland into exile. the dispersal of jews is called the diaspora
- be the second century, pax romana was coming to an end
- the romans exiles, imprisoned or executed christians
- martyrs= people willing to sacrafice their lives for the sake of a belief or cause
- reasons christianity grew:
- it embraced all people ( men women slaves poor nobles)
- it gave hope to the powerless
- it appealed to those who were repelled by rome
- it offered a personal relationship with a loving god
- promised eternal life after death
- 312 Constantine (roman leader) prayed in battle and saw a cross. then he ordered crosses on the shields. they won. so he ended persecution of christians
- bishop, a priest who supervises local churches
- peter was the first bishop in rome and the very first pope
- rome was the center of the Church
- new testament added
- Nicene creed defined the basic beliefs of the Church
- St. Augustine ( father of church) taught that humans needed the grace of God to be saved, he wrote the City of God.
A century of Crisis
- the reign of emperor Marcus Aurelius marked the end of 2 centuries of peace in rome
- economy weakened:
- pirates disrupted trade
- lacked new sources of gold and silver
- raised taxes
- coines contained silver
- inflation= a drastic drop in the value of money coupled with a raise in prices
- overworked soil on farmed in Italy stopped producing
- serious food shortages, disease spread, population declined
- over time, soldiers only would work for $
- mercenaries= foreign soldiers who fought for $
- feelings of loyalty to Rome weakening
- diocletian became emperor 284
- he limited personal freedoms and set fixed prices for goods
- diocletian claimed to be a descendant from the Gods
- he divided the empire into the Greek- speaking East (greece, egypt, anatola, and syria) and latin speaking West (italy, gaul, spain and britain). he took the east half.
- east was richer than the west
- when he retired, civil war broke out. Constantine was among 4 others competing for power
- Constantine gained the West in 312 and the East in 324
- 330 AD, he moved captial from Rome too the Greek city Byzantium
- Constantine renamed Byzantium to Constantipole
- after Constantine died, the empire divided again.
- collapsed due to worsening internal problems, separation of east and west, and outside invasions
- that is as far as i read !! peace out
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