Questions for the Test

• What is an "Edict"?

A law coming straight from the emperor, from the highest position has to be followed by all

• How much bigger was Diocletions army then Augustus?

Augustus's army was only 1/3 of the size of Diocletions army, 400,000 in Diocletions army

• In 300 AD how many people were in the Roman Empire?

60 million

• Describe Constantine's vision (Paragraph 5-10 sentences

Battled in the Milvian Bridge; before this he saw the cross ect.

• When was Pax Romana?

27 BC to 180 AD

• When was the Edict of Milan?

313 AD

• How many people in Constantine army?

500,000

• Who did Jesus hang out with? Why?(short answer)

Poor people
Allowed Christianity to grow

• What does Gospel mean?

Good News

• Diocletians Edicts:

He wanted to burn all churches, burn sacred scriptures, destroy christian careers, arrest all bishops priests and clergy, forced them to go make sacrifice to Roman gods, not allowed to assemble, and mother father child and children had to make sacrifice or persecuted immediately

• Constantine moved capital from Rome to Banzantime and then moved to Constantinople
• What is the Edict of Milan?

Edict that said you can't persecute anyone for their religions

• What is Predestination?

God knows before what you were destined for

• Who were four Gospel writers?

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

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Carly TEACHING

• Diocletian didn't have problem with Christians first, but did after
• Someone on staff had him change his mind on Christians
• He had edicts
• Sentneced newly build Christian Church in Nicomedia demolsihed
• Christians scriptures and places of worship demolished
• Christians are prohibited from assembling for worship
• He said that all Chrisyians were to be stripped of their rankings as senator equestrians, decurions, veterans and soldiers
• After first edict, 3 more edicts
• Second: ordered arrest as well as imporosments of all bishops and priests, let other people that are criminals out of jail
• 3rd if clergyman wanted to be freed, would have to make sacrifice to Roman gods
• 4th: ordered all men women and children to come to public space and make collective sacrifice together and refused, they would be executed
• Cross came to him (see yesterdays blog)
• Consyayine buily Roman army and pay for the army he introduced new gold currency
• Rome to Binzanti capital late renamed to COnstatine 
• Edicts come from emperor which is a law that has to be followed
• Fire destroyed half of palace
• Galarious (sub empoorer) said it had to be christians
• Guy was abused
• Doceltine just left, didnt wait to die just ran away
• Big difference from Constantine and Doceltine
• Constantines mother is a Christian
• THey painted it on their shield
• He did not become Christian on spot, but eventually did become on
• Eusebius: historian talked to COnstantine on what happened
• Constantine thought he needed divine assistance and all because his gods were not helping
• Those who believed in multiple gods met an unhappy end
• The God of the Father gave him many tokens and such
• Constantine said this through his own lips
• God came to him in the dream and they put sign on shield and go to battle
• Won battle
• Edict of Milan: you can't persecute anyone for their religion anymore
• If your property was taken away because you are Christian or something you get it back
• They will not burn up anything and destroy anything
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Persecution

• Epidemic disease spreads throughout empire
• Too hard to defend against barbarians
• emperors began to lose power. stayed in power for 2 1/2 years
• Having armies is expensive
• Too many poverty stricken citizens
• 284-Diocletian's reforms
• Increase size of army 400,000
• 1/3 bigger then Augustus
• Ask new people to join their army they concquered 
• Roman territories made smaller
• 20,000 officials in government (10x more then augustus)
• In 300 Ad 60 million people in Empire
• 7 million people are Christians
• Father in heaven loves you helped the poor in Roman Empire
• Diocletian ruled from 284-305 
• He at first didn't care
• He realized the probs it could cause so he devised a plan to persecute Christians
• Diocletian reconstructed empire.
• What was the way Diocletion persecute?

• What were specefics Diocletiion on how Diocletion persecutes Christians?

• What is the connection between Constatine and Christianity?

Constantine not only accepted Christianity by issueing the Edict of Milan to stop the persecution of Christians and also issue complete freedom to worship throughout the entire Roman Empire. Constantine not only just allowed freedom throughout the empire to let them worship, but he took it farther and started to favor Christianity. This lead to Christianity to be the religion throughout the entire empire. The exact instance where Constantine became Christian is unknown to us, although what we do know is that of his own story. He said that during the battles that he fought to bring him to power, he would display the sign of the cross of Jesus. His reasoning for this was that one day he had seen a cross hovering above the sun with the words written on it, "Conquer by this sign!." The only power that Constantine had in his mind was the one God whom the Christians worshiped. He was a Christian so he could not have looked at himself and expected himself to be a god, but that did not stop the bishops themselves to displayed reverence for him. In a speech before the emperor Constantine's friend a biographer Bishop Eusebius of Causarea made a point by point parallel between Constantine as ruler of Rome and Christ himself as ruler of the universe.

• What else is Constatine known for?

Christianity in Pax Romana

• A new religion in new empire
• Begins with Jesus (everything)
• He was a real person, historical real
• Only written about Gospel not on front page news
• Jesus was an observant Jew
• He was hanging with sinners, prostitutes, fringes of societies and was telling them they were worth it
• He said we should strive for perfection  but we we are unable to get there, but God forgives if you are a good person
• People tried to trick him to do bad and be legislative, but he did not lose and crack
• Jesus followers thought he came to end world and bring them to eternal happiness
• Followers believe he died and rose from the dead
• People that followed him were apostles
• Paul of Tarsus was a Jew who became follower of Christ
• Paul not only stops persecuting but follows Jesus
• People could be pushed around and no one would care
• Columbia history says he really was calming down people not casting out demons

LO-2 Christianity in the Era of the Roman Peace

Jesus:

• What is known of Jesus is found in the gospels
• The authors did not feel the need to write down all of what happened in Jesus life, just death and preach and birth
• Gospels written when Jewish people were against each other.
• Jesus obeyed the law and called for acceptance of Roman Rule
• One must "be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect"
• Gospel tells many of Jesus signs and wonders
• Jesus of Gospel is different then Jesus that Jewish groups hoped for
• he said I have not come to bring peace, but a sword
• He meant he will separate the sinful from the righteous
• The gentiles saw the god and went into the world and proclaimed the good news to the whole creation
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• aul had recently come to Judaea as a studious Pharisee and opponent of the new belief 
• A vision made his a passionate believer in Jesus as Messiah
• Paul kept in touch by letter
• Predestination: The doctrine that God determines in advance who will be saved and who will be damned
• Within the earliest Churches, there was no formal structure of authority and power
• People claimed that they should be the head of the Church because God or the Holy Spirit gave them something special
• The Churches' worship included two formal services
• Paul died in about 60 A.D. probably beheaded in Rome as a Jewish troublemaker
• The believers in Jesus began calling themselves by a name originally given them by Gentile disbelievers -"Christians"
• For the Christians, there were only three groups: 
• The Jews: God's former chosen people
• The Gentiles: a word that Christians sill often used to describe worships of the gods and goddesses
• Themselves, the Christians: who were Gentiles no longer but God's chosen people

Friday

I forgot to do a blog for our class on Friday, but it was when Daniel and I worked on our paper together in class and which was due today in class for a grade (100 points). The LO that we decided to do were LO1, LO3, LO5 and I think it was a solid essay.

The ending of Rome (video)

We started off by when Tibiris wife, Claudia, had poop thrown at her face because the people were angry at Tibiris because people were saying that he wanted to be king. Even his body gaurd had left him because he thought that Tibiris was trying to be a tyrant. They broke Tibiris fathers face mask. He said that he will run for tribune again and win over their support again. He was being yelled at by his mother saying not even her greatest enemies have given her that much pain. He said that he did not do this for the good of the people, or for the good of himself, but for his mother. The Senate was wanting to interfere, but they can't do anything legally. They misinterrpurted the symbol for being King and the Senate beat Tibiris Braccus to death. He had no funeral or anything just was dumped into the river.

• The overthrow of Roman Republic
• Prolutarian: A propertyless and still could vote
• War profiteers are people that profit from war
• People would take advantage of their own people that were rich not just others
• People use their own money to buy farm lands that other people can't afford or grow anything on
• They did not even pay former farmers they just hired slaves
• The Gracchi brothers saw that what was happening was not right
• The brothers were motivated to make things people, but they got killed
• They asked people with enormous amount of land to people that needed it, just a little, part they didn't need
• Some of the grain they had would be given to Romans that don't have food
• This idea would decrease the gap between rich and poor
• His idea did not suit well with the Senate
• He was under a disadvantage because of people that were in the Assembly that were sympathetic to the Senate
• This was a well covered historical story
• Senate thought he was a troublemaker 
• He does something illegal because he tries to get re elected 
• They killed Tibiris and 300 of his supporters
• Guis is 8 years younger then his brother
• He picked up after his brother and got elected as a tribune
• There was a bounty on him and Opimius announced whoever brought it back will get paid by weight in gold
• They were almost forced into Civil War
• The Rise of Julias Ceaser
• He was a talented person, speaking, patrician and was very persuasive 
• He was a brilliant military man
• He was really good at how to work people, what friends to have, what to act like
• This guy feels like he was totally meant to rule 
• Sulla tried to do this with 3 people in different government branches
• Pompey was accomplished general
• Crassus richest man on earth, might be the richest
• Triumphant, military, money and him
• He goes through and annexes most of western Europe
• He was war profiteering from this
• After 8 years he has enourmously increased Roman amount of land
• Pompey is jealous and senate is worried
• Senate tells him to not march in with massive army and celebrate
• He got to the Rubicon river and makes a grand heroic entrance
• Caesar is DADDY
• Crossing the Rubicon "Reaches point to make decision with no turning back"
• Pompey is getting jealous and can't deal with this 
• They both start fighting each other and Pompey getting defeated
• He ran to Egypt and got killed
• 46 BC: Caesar returned to Rome in triumph and was declated "Father of the Fatherland"
• JC was tribune, supreme pontiff, consul, and dictator some at same time
• He became the DICTATOR FOR LIFE
• They have come back to Tarquin the Proud, full circle
• As dictator, he resettle war veterans on famlands
• Lands he conquered he made them Roman citizenship, give em senate spot
• He did all the great things for people
• Ides of March (March 15) 44 BC he got stabbed to death
• Mark Antony and Octavian each get some of Caesars troops and new triumvirate with another warlord0 Lepidus
• They start fighting each other
• They join forces to assasinate JC's assasins
• Antony has love affair with Cleopatra not popular with rome
• Octavian pushes out Lepidus and defeats Cleo 
• Octavian supreme warlord
• Runs military dictatorship
• named him Augustus which means "recered one"
• he was 18 when Caeser was killed(44 BC)
• Two decades later (27 BC) most powerful man in world
• beginning of Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
• Paper about what comes next pg 104-121 in text
• right about Pax Romana new monarchy 
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