8.10 Beginning and Spread of Christianity

Open Ended

How do you respond when someone believes something that you do not agree with?

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​Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

A person who works to spread a religion

• missionary

• persecution

• convert

• Pope

Multiple Choice

To change one's religion

• convert

• divert

• heresy

• missionary

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Multiple Choice

In Roman times, the leader of the Christian Church. Today, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church

• Pope

• Bishop

• Priest

• Patriarch

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Who liked the ideas of Christianity?

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Christianity spread easily on Roman ​

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. Its teachings appealed to the ​

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, who had little wealth or status. Roman ​

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disliked Christianity, despite being ​

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of other religions. This was because Christians refused to worship the ​

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.

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roads

plebeians

authorities

tolerant

emperor

patricians

generals

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Put the events in order from oldest (1) to newest (5). Remember the difference between BCE and CE!

• Rome becomes and empire under Octavian / Augustus

  (27 BCE)

• Jesus begins preaching Christianity

  (20s CE)

• Emperor Nero begins persecution of Christians

  (64 CE)

• Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity and ends the persecution

  (312 CE)

• Emperor Theodosius makes Christianity the official religion of Rome

  (390 CE)

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5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Open Ended

Answer ONE of these questions, please:

A. What was one reason that Christianity spread in the Roman Empire?

B. What was one reason that Roman authorities saw Christianity as a threat?