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Gr 7 History Ch 8
Grade 7 History Ch 8 Review - People
Term | Definition |
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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 |