Origins and Growth of Christianity Flashcards
When Christianity began to develop as a religion, the ________ was the strongest power in the Western worlds.
Roman Empire
In 63 BCE, Pompey the Great captured ___________ and brought what is modern-day Israel under Roman control.
Jerusalem
The title “Christ” is based on the Greek word Christos which means”___________.”
Messiah
Many Jesus’s lessons were delivered through the telling of stories called ____________.
parables
True or False
A martyr is someone who suffers death rather than giving up his or her beliefs.
True
True or False
Judea was populated mostly by Hebrew people.
True
True or False
Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples, a man named James.
False
The Romans appointed _________as king of Judea in 39 BCE.
Herod the Great
Jesus was born around the year 1 AD in ___________, a city in Judea.
Bethlehem
Jesus, who was Jewish, was baptized by a Jewish prophet known as ______________.
John the Baptist
Paul and and the others who traveled gained __________ were called missionaries.
converts
In Egypt during the 300s, ___________started Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert.
Saint Anthony
The Emperor Constantine’s mother, ____________, was a Christian.
Helena
Christianity was the official religion of Rome by __________.
391
True or False
Paul, one of the Apostles, is credited with establishing Christianity in Rome.
False
True or False
Christians refused to recognize the emperor as a god which caused Romans to accuse Christians of being disloyal to the emperor.
True
True or False
By 1054, the Eastern Greek Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church became united.
False
Paul, a Jew from _____________, who was not one of the 12 Apostles, became a Christian after Jesus appeared to him in a vision.
Asia Minor
`Constantine issued the ____________, the law that ended the persecution of Christians within the Roman Empire.
Edict of Milan
_______________ were communities where monks studied and prayed in an effort to dedicate their lives to God.
Monasteries
