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We made up questions for test on wed

Q. Who did Christianity begin with?

A.      Jesus

Q. What does Gospel Mean?

A. Good news

Q.  When did Diocletian start his reforming?
A. 284 AD

Q. Who are the four gospel writers?

A. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John

Q. What did Constantine rename the capital?

A. Constantinople

Q. How many people are in the Roman Empire in 300 AD?

A. 60 million

Q. What class of people was there too many of?
A. The poor

Q. How many people joined the army under Constantine?

A. 500,000

Q. What is the battle Constantine fought after he saw the vision from God?

A. The battle of Milvian Bridge

Q. What did the Edict of Milan do?

A. Protected all religions from persecution.

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Diocletian 

• ordered a series of edicts 

first edict

• newly built churches were demolished
• demanded all spiritual thing to me demolished
• prohibited assembling for worship
• but people stopped worshiping in public
• worshiped in private 
• thought people who died for there religion were inspiration
• all Christians were stripped of there rankings
• wanted to eliminate the Christians

second edict

• ordered arrests 
• imprisoned bishops and priests

third edict

• ordered to imprison clergymen 

forth edict

• forced then to come out in public and sacrifice there religion
• if they didn't they would be executed

Constantine's connection to Christianity

• before he prayed to different gods and decided to try the Christian God
• before they went into battle he saw Christ that promised his victory
• he also built up the Roman army
• he shared his power with other emperors

The Edict of Milan

• means that you cant persecute anyone because of there religion
• said that if you get your land taken away that you get it back

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In the 3rd century

·         Epidermic disease spread through Empire

·         Hard to defend the frontier against barbarians

·         Emperors were losing power

·         2.5 years average for an emperor

·         Too many poor citizens

Diocletian

·         284 Ad was his reforms

·         Had a 400,000 people in the army

·         Divided Rome Territories into smaller provinces

·         Get 20000 officals

·         they were more efficient at collecting higher taxes - this greater yield provided for a larger army

Time marches on to 300 Ad…

·         60 million people in the roman empire

·         Millions are Christians

·         Christianity help the poor

·         more Christians - more face-to-face contacts - more conversions - more offspring

·         Christians are gaining power, becoming the ruling elite

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·         Diocletian (ruled from 284 - 305) left Christians alone at first

·         Constantine ruled as emperor 306 – 337

How did Constantine restructure the empire?

• He built the army up to as many as a half a million troops
• He started a new gold coinage that kept its value for lots of centuries
• He shared power with fellow emperors, (his sons)
• He started to build an eastern capital , the city of New Rome , later named Constantinople  it was located between Europe and Asia  

Jesus

Christianity in the Pax Romana

• It begins with Jesus
• We learn about him in the gospels
• gospel means good news
• Jesus was a precher in judea who set himself apart from other "messiahs
• • Jesus taught that one must strive for perfection since God was perfect, and Jesus sought out the imperfect in society
• Jesus's follers thought he was the messiah
• he was beleived to be man and the son of god
• both human and divine
• Jesus was a threat to Roman rule and was crucified though his followers beleived he rose from the dead and ascended to heaven
• People that spead the word of jesus were apostles
• Paul of Tarsus was a jew who followed jesus after a miraulous vision on the road to Demascus
• Paul talked about "Predestination" What meant that god choose who was saved and damned
• He helped churches start and kept in touch in new christans by letters(corinth , thessalonia , rome, ephesus
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Jesus

• died in 30 ad
• Jesus was a teacher to the Jewish groups
• was a preacher in  in Judea 
• Jesus was the Messiah 
• Apostles were Jesus's followers and messengers of his teachings

Paul

• He worked hard on proclaiming the good news 30 years later when Jesus died
•  50 - 60 ad Paul wrote letter that still exist today
• He founded in the city where Jesus founded the church
• Orthodoxy practices by the catholic church that are true
• Heresy practices by the catholic church that are false
• Ascetic is a person who practices a life of self denial as a way to god

romeeeeeeee

• Mother is getting mad and blamed him for doing for himself and not the people.
• He is disappointing his mother
• He is rerunning
• Tiberius isn't really supposed to be able to run because he has already ran before
• They beated tiberius to death 
• They was no funeral
• His body was dropped in the Tiber river

What is wring with rome?

• Farmers lost farms when came back from italy.  
• redused to the the lowest PROLETARIAN (proteryless but voting) citizen status
• War profiteers abounded and traded in slaves, weapons, and often bought abandoned farms to create large plantations
• "just grab some land" (Terberius Gracchus doen't like this

War profiteers

• Used wealth to buy up ruined farms
• Small plots were merged into large areas for vineyards, olive, groves, or livestock and ect.
• Got slaves from Carthage
• 1/3 of people were slaves in italy

The Gracchi attempt reform

• The 2nd century bc they tryed to get the poor rights
• They were murdered the the enemies in the Senate

The Plan of the Gracchi brothers

• The rich to give up farms to the poor
• The rich to give some food to the poor

The Best laid plans

• Triberius only had one year and ran out of time
• his (possibly illegal) re election simply enraged his enemies
• Senate already hates him
• they killed tiberius , and over 300 of his supporters
• His younger brother Gaius later got elected tribute
• Then they got tired of him
• Same who cuts off head gets paid in gold
• Septimuleius brought back head with lead in it
• Wasnt paid
• Thrown in river with 3000 supporters

Started with Julius Caesar

• Was talented patrician formed a unique government with former sulla Allies( pompey, Crassus) also called Triumvirate
• Pompey was a general
• Crassus was the richest man in rome
• Julius was named proconsul of so. Gual within 8 years conquered the rest, Parts of Britan and Germany giving him wealth , power, and influence

Power and Anbition

• Pompey is jealous and senate is worried
• They tell caesar not to come in with all of his army all of rome
• He cross the Rubicon with army and took over
• Caesar kills pompey and army because he was annoying him
• Pompey is defeated in Greece , and it killed Egypt where he had taken refuge

Large and in charge

• 46 bc Caesar returned to rome in triumph and was declared "father of the Fatherland"
• Julius had himself tribune, supreme, prontiff consul, and dictator - some at the same time
• Is Dictor for life

He he does with power

• • \resettle war veterans on farmlands in Italy and in the provinces
  • extend Roman citizenship to parts of Gaul and Spain
  • appointed citizens from the provinces to the Senate
  • build splendid buildings and roads
  • introduce reforms into every department of administration

He gets murdered by geting stabed

Octavion beats Mark Antony and runs out Lepidus

• Octavian is the supreme warlord
• he runs a military dictatorship
• he is named "Augustus," which means "revered one"
• he is in charge of the greatest empire in the world
• he was 18 when Caesar was killed (44 BC)
• now, less than two decades later (27 BC), he is the most powerful man in the world

beginning of Pax Romana (Roman Peace)

repulic ends

notes on movie

• farmers lost farms
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• rich had slaves take over
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•  Tiberius returned to Rome with a celebration
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• he doesn’t want to say for nothing he did
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• people are proud of tiberius
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• he is getting married for political reason
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• Tiberius is vetoing everything the government says