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Gr 7 History Ch 8
Grade 7 History Ch 8 Review - People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pontius Pilate | the Roman governor of Palestine who authorized the crucifixion of Christ |
| Gentiles | non-Jews |
| Tiberius | emperor who ruled during the time of Christ's crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension |
| Caligula | the insane emperor who was murdered by his bodyguards |
| Claudius | emperor who expelled all Jews from Rome |
| Nero | first emperor to persecute Christians |
| Titus | the emperor when Vesuvius erupted |
| Domitian | Flavian emperor who demanded to be worshiped as a god |
| Trajan | emperor who spread the empire to its greatest limits; would not persecute anyone who denied being a Christian |
| Valerian | emperor who tried to harm Christianity by attacking Christian leaders |
| Diocletian | emperor who divided the empire into two parts; began the severest persecution Christianity had ever known |
| Maximian | appointed by Diocletian to rule the western half of the Roman Empire |
| Constantine | the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire |
| Eusebius | the church history writer who recorded Constantine's vision of the cross |
| Theodosius I | the emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire |
| Attila | the leader of the Huns |
| Alaric | the leader of the Visigoths |