Chapter 11: the ROMAN EMPIRE and CHRISTIANITY Notes

Chapter 11: THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND CHRISTIANITY Notes

Name: ______Period: ___

Section 2: The Roman Empire and Religion

1.  Name a few things Emperor Caligula was known for!

2.  Most of the time, Romans tolerated different religions, as long as people didn’t attack the government. One religion that the Romans were not tolerant of was that of the ______. They believed in one god. The Romans thought that this took away from obedience to the emperor and state. They lived in the Roman province of ______.

3.  There was a Jewish rebellion, and the Romans attacked them at a mountain fortress called ______.

4.  A new religion would form during Roman times. ______is a religion based on the life of ______of Nazareth.

5.  What were some of his teachings?

6.  He was not well liked by the Jewish leaders because his teachings went against their authority. They had him judged by a Roman named ______, and he was sentenced to death.

7.  How did he die? ______.

8.  Jesus’s followers were called his ______. After he died, they were called ______, and spread his teachings around the Roman Empire!

9.  At first, they were persecuted. Many ______thought that the equality of Christianity was a good thing and converted. Later, thousands of Romans would become ______.

10.  Christians believe that Jesus is the ______, which means “God’s anointed one.” Romans ______, or attacked the beliefs of Christians, even forcing them to fight gladiators and wild animals in the Coliseum!

11.  However, the first Roman Emperor to ______, or change religions, to Christianity, was a man named ______. He made Christianity the official religion of Rome. After that, it became the official religion in the Empire and began to spread across Europe.

Section 3: The End of the Empire

1.  By the 200’s AD, groups of ______, or “uncivilized” peoples outside the borders of Rome, are causing problems for Romans. To try and stop this, the Romans tried to civilize them.

2.  One emperor that we’ve learned about, CONSTANTINE, built a new capital city for the Romans called ______.

3.  To make things more efficient, a great emperor named ______split the empire into two halves, the Western and Eastern Empire.

4.  Another emperor would build a glorious new capital in the Eastern Empire. His name was ______and his new city would be called ______, after him. It would be the capital of the Eastern Empire.

5.  In 410 AD, the barbarians called the ______invaded Roman Italy and sacked the city….looting and burning things.

6.  5. By 476, the Western Empire falls to the barbarians. ______the ______becomes master of Rome. The Eastern Empire stays alive and renames itself the “______” Empire.

7.  The most famous eastern emperor of this time was a man named ______. He and his wife ______ruled together and conquered much of the old western empire back. He also put all Roman laws together into a new system called ______.

8.  The Byzantine Empire kept Roman and Greek culture going centuries after Rome fell. It also invented weapons like grenades, flamethrower and something called ______. It’s like today’s napalm, which sticks and burns to things!

9.  The Byzantine Empire would last until the 1400’s when it is conquered finally by a group called the ______. It ideas and science would later be passed on to us in our modern day civilization!