Objectives: SWBAT recognize the origins of
Christianity.
SWBAT identify the impact of Emperor
Constantine on world history.
Calisthenics: *A brief reminder, Your calisthenics count
for 25% of your grade. If you hand them in crumpled
and incomplete I will no longer accept them. It is your
job to keep them neat and organized this week on the
SAME SHEET OF PAPER do not hand them to me on
multiple pages this Friday.
1) Which empires ruled during the classical period?
2) What caused the Roman Empire to decline?
Tracking Our Progress
Unit 7 Quiz 2 vs. Unit 7 Quiz 3 scores…….
Homeroom Unit 7 Quiz 1 Unit 7 Quiz 2 Unit 7 Quiz 3 Unit 7 TEST
Goal:
601 81% 90% 88%
602 86% 87% 82%
603 82% 83% 83%
604 80% 87% 88%
605 75% 89% 89%
• Christians are people who believe that Jesus
Christ is the savior. Christianity is their
religion.
• Jesus was born during the Roman Empire. He
practiced Judaism.
• Christianity has it's roots in Judaism. Jesus
believed in one God, and accepted the 10
Commandments.
• As Jesus become more
popular, the Roman
government felt
threatened by the
amount of power that
he was gaining. The
Roman government
executed Jesus by
crucifixion.
• Despite his death and persecution, followers
still began to practice his teaching and
Christianity spread across social classes.
• Christians were persecuted (attacked) until
Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity
and made it legal to practice any religion.
• Constantine helped Christianity to spread
across the Roman Empire.
• What is the religion called in which people believe that
Jesus was the savior?
• What Empire did Jesus grow up in?
• What religion did Jesus practice?
• What do Christianity and Judaism share?
• Why did the Roman empire feel threatened by Jesus?
• What did the Roman empire do to Jesus?
• How did the Roman empire treat Jesus’ followers?
• Which was the first Roman emperor to convert to
Christianity?
• How did Emperor Constantine change the policy of the
Roman Empire towards Christianity?
Global-Lids
Today’s Topic: Christianity
• ____________ are people who believe that
_________ Christ is the ________.
____________ is their religion. Jesus was born
during the __________ Empire. He practiced
_______________. Christianity has it's roots in
Judaism. Jesus believed in _____________,
and accepted the __________________.
How’d We Do?
• Christians are people who believe that Jesus
Christ is the savior. Christianity is their
religion. Jesus was born during the Roman
Empire. He practiced Judaism. Christianity
has it's roots in Judaism. Jesus believed in one
God, and accepted the 10 Commandments.
• As Jesus become more __________, the
______________________felt ____________ by the
amount of power that he was gaining. The Roman
government executed Jesus by _______________.
Despite his death and persecution, _____________
still began to practice his teaching and Christianity
___________ across social classes. Christians were
persecuted (attacked) until Emperor Constantine
______________ to Christianity and made it
___________ to practice any religion. ____________
helped Christianity to _____________ across the
Roman Empire.
How’d We Do?
• As Jesus become more popular, the Roman
government felt threatened by the amount of power
that he was gaining. The Roman government
executed Jesus by crucifixion. Despite his death and
persecution, followers still began to practice his
teaching and Christianity spread across social classes.
Christians were persecuted (attacked) until Emperor
Constantine converted to Christianity and made it
legal to practice any religion.
• Constantine helped Christianity to spread across the
Roman Empire.
Pliny the Younger to Emperor
Trajan, about 112 CE
• I have taken this course about those who have been
brought before me as Christians. I asked them whether
they were Christians or not? If they confessed that they
were Christians, I asked them again, and a third time,
intermixing threatenings with the questions. If they
persevered in their confession, I ordered them to be
executed; for I did not doubt but, let their confession be of
any sort whatsoever, this positiveness and inflexible
obstinacy deserved to be punished. There have been some
of this mad sect whom I took notice of in particular as
Roman citizens, that they might be sent to that city. After
some time, as is usual in such examinations, the crime
spread itself and many more cases came before me.
Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan, about
112 CE
• Others of them that were named in the libel,
said they were Christians, but presently
denied it again; that indeed they had been
Christians, but had ceased to be so, some
three years, some many more; and one there
was that said he had not been so these twenty
years. All these worshipped your image, and
the images of our gods; these also cursed
Christ.