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AWH C6 S3
Advanced World History Chapter 6 Section 3
Question | Answer |
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What attracted Roman's to Christianity? | personal relationship with God |
What were the Jews of Judea looking for to free them from the Roman empire? | A messiah |
12 men that were Jesus's disciples or pupils and wrote the Gospels | Apostles |
Roman governor that sentenced Jesus to be crucified | Pontius Pilate |
A greek word meaning messiah or savior | Christo |
Apostle of Christ that had a huge impact on the spread of Christianity | Paul |
What made Christianity easy to spread? | Pax Romana and common languages |
Paul's letters to believers were called | Epistles |
What was the dispersal of the Jews from their homeland called? | Diaspora |
What actions did Jews take against Romans regarding occupation of Jerusalem? | 2 Jewish rebellions |
Roman rulers opposed Christians because they refused to do what? | worship Roman gods |
Romans used Christians as scapegoats for their troubles, and this lead to the Christians being | persecuted |
1. embraced all people 2. gave hope to powerless 3. appealed to those repelled by Rome's extravagance 4. personal relationship with loving God 5. eternal life after death | reasons Christianity grew |
first Roman emperor to accept Christianity and end Christian persecution | Constantine |
Roman emperor that made Christianity the empire's official religion | Theodosius |
A group of persons organized in order or ranks | hierarchy |
A priset who supervised several local churches | bishop |
Person all priests and bishops traced their authority to, Jesus called "rock" of CHristian Church | Peter |
Later bishops said Peter was the first of these | Pope (s) |
Christians called the Hebrew Bible what? | The Old Testament |
Church leaders established a standard of belief including Paul's Epistles called | New Testament |
Church leaders gathered by Constantine to define Christian beliefs wrote this | Nicene Creed |
"Father of the church" who wrote THE CITY OF GOD | Augustine |