Early Church
Granted toleration to Christians with the Edict of Milan
Constantine
Rule by many or the common people
Democracy
Plebeian
Common people of Rome
Zeus
Roman emperor that began the first great persecution of Christians
Nero
Produced the Latin Vulgate
Jerome
Rule by the best
Aristocracy
Pedagogue
Educated slave
Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
The underground tunnels Christians hid in
The Catacombs
Wrote City of God
Augustine
Rule by the few
Oligarchy
Acropolis
Hilltop fortress
Tutored Alexander
Aristotle
The brave Christian girl martyred for her faith
Blandina
Church known for its use of the Greek liturgy
Eastern Orthodox
Representative democracy
Allows voting citizens to elect people to rule for them
Iconoclast
Image destroyer
A famous Greek hero in Homer's works
Achilles
Initiated the 10th and greatest persecution of Christians
Diocletian
A.D. 100
Direct Democracy
Each citizen represents himself in the assembly and votes
The type of Greek the New Testament was written in
Koine
A great Greek Physician
Hippocrates
Why God chose the Roman Empire to be the place for the Gospel to be spread
Because through martyrdom and persecution, the Gospel was able to be spread in a greater way