How Did Christianity Build The Roman Empire

The Roman religion began as a polytheistic one. As the empire expanded so did the acceptance of Greek gods, these gods included Mars the god of war and Jupiter. They built these gods in temples all over the cities. The gods had human-like characteristics along with human-like emotions such as hate jealousy and fear. The empire began to expand rapidly under the rule of Augustus, and because of this the Roman empire began to gain new people with new religious views such as Jews and Christians, Christianity especially began to spread rapidly through the early followers of Jesus. These new religions threatened the Roman Empire because they refused to make sacrifices to Roman gods. They were soon expelled from Rome and Emperor Vespasian began the …show more content…
This was a small and random act of repression but soon lead to The Roman persecution of the Christians when the Christians are blamed by Emperor Nero for the great fire in Rome that almost destroyed the city(even though many Romans believed Nero started the fire). Later in 67 CE, paul one of the disciples was put to death in Rome. This forced the religion to move underground, despite this, is against the law, and the bloody executions and beheadings, Christianity grew …show more content…
In 312 AD, before Constantine’s army marched against Maxentius whose army was much larger than his, Constantine had a vision. It is said Constantine saw a cross in the sky with the message “you will conquer”. He later had a dream that he should put the letters XP on the soldier's shields and so he did; he won the battle against Maxentius outside Rome. Believing that he only won this battle with the help of Christ, he met with an Emperor in Milan and wrote up the edict of Milan. This made Christianity legal and allowed for Christians to worship