Chapter 6.4

Question 1

Who conquered Israel? When?

Answer 1

63 BC, Romans conquered Judaea (Israel)

Question 2

Who was King?

Who ruled region?

Answer 2

Chose new Jewish King

but Roman Prefect (Governor) rule region

Question 3

What was the compromise between the Jews and the Romans?

Answer 3

Jews had to pay tribute to Romans but unwilling to abandon Judaism for polytheistic religion of Romans

Roman leaders allowed Jews to practice religion as long as they paid tribute and maintained civic order

Question 4

Who was the leader that emerged?

What was his teaching?

Answer 4

Jesus of Nazareth

A spiritual leader named Jesus of Nazareth emerged, teaching people to prepare for God’s Judgment Day

Question 5

What is source of all knowledge of Jesus?

Answer 5

Nearly all knowledge of Jesus comes from Gospels—first four books of New Testament

Question 6

What are the books that make up today’s Christian Bible?

Answer 6

New Testament and books of Hebrew Bible make up today’s Christian Bible

Question 7

Where was Jesus born?

What did he study?

Answer 7

Jesus born in Bethlehem, near Jerusalem

Learned carpentry, studied writings of Jewish prophets

Question 8

What were the followers of Jesus called? How many?

Answer 8

Jesus preached message of God, gathered group of 12 disciples

Question 9

What did Jesus do that created excitement?

Answer 9

Created excitement by performing miracles of healing; defending poor, oppressed

Question 10

Give 2 major things that Jesus taught people?

Answer 10

Instructed people to repent of sins, seek God’s forgiveness

Must love God above all, love others as much as self

Question 11

Who did not like Jesus? Why?

Answer 11

Jesus’s popularity, crowds alarmed authorities who feared political uprisings

Question 12

What happened to Jesus?

Answer 12

Jesus arrested & sentenced to death by Roman Governor Pontius Pilate

Question 13

According to _________, after crucifixion, what happened to Jesus?

Answer 13

According to New Testament, after crucifixion

Jesus rose from dead

Spent 40 days teaching disciples

Ascended into heaven

Question 14

What did followers believe Jesus to be?

What does this mean?

Answer 14

Followers believed Resurrection, Ascension revealed Jesus as the Messiah

Messiah - the “chosen one” by God

Question 15

After Jesus’s death, what religion spread?

What was the key teaching?

Answer 15

The Spread of Christianity

After Jesus’s death, his disciples began teaching that all people could achieve salvation and everlasting life

Question 16

Who were the people that spread the message of Jesus?

Answer 16

Apostles

Jesus’s 12 disciples worked to spread the message

Apostles traveled widely

Question 17

Who helped spread Christianity the most?

Why?

Answer 17

Paul of Tarsus

Had actively opposed those teaching that Jesus was the Messiah

Paul had a CONVERSION and helped spread Christianity and Jesus’ message

Question 18

Who did NOT like the spread of Christianity? What happenen?

Answer 18

As Christianity spread through Roman world, some local officials feared Christians conspiring against them; arrested, killed many Christians

Question 19

What were the Christians who died for their faith called?

Answer 19

Those killed seen by Christians as martyrs , people who die for their faith

Question 20

How did the Romans treat Christianity?

Answer 20

Large-scale persecution by Romans grew as rulers saw Christianity as threat

Question 21

Which Emperor converted to Christianity?

Answer 21

Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity

Question 22

What did Constantine do for Christianity? This was called his _______

What happened to other religion?

Answer 22

AD 313, Constantine made Christianity legal within empire, Edict of Milan

Constantine & Priests select the Gospels, voted on the divinity of Jesus

By late 300s, polytheism gradually disappeared from empire