Early Christianity in Rome

Ancient Romans were, at first, Polytheists?

• false

• true

Some Romans worshipped the emperor as a God.

• True

• False

Why did the Romans crucify Jesus?

• He did not worship their emperor

• He was trying to take over Rome

• They saw him as a revolutionary, who may lead the Jews into rebellion

• He was not a friend of Hammurabi

Christians were seen as martyrs (ones who were willing to die for their faith)?

• false

• True

The Jews who accepted Jesus as their christ, became the first christians 

• true

• false

Peter and Paul were both missionaries who spread christianity throughout Rome.

• false

• true

The official religion of the Roman empire was?

• Judaism

• Hinduism

• Christianity 

• Buddhism