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A historian who warned his fellow Jews NOT to fight Rome in the Great Jewish Revolt
Who was Josephus?
Who was Augustine of Hippo?
Before he returned to heaven, Jesus told his followers they would soon receive the ___________.
The men who were commissioned as the first missionaries of Christ
Who were Paul and Barnabas?
The city buried in ash by Mt. Vesuvius
What is Pompeii?
One of the most evil Roman emperors that ever lived; a paranoid and murderous man
Who was Nero?
Wrote much of the New Testament; met Christ on the Road to Damascus
Who was Paul?
Means 50 in Greek and happened this many days after Passover
What is Pentecost?
The man many Jews were willing to follow because he was a strong military leader and claimed to be the Messiah
Who was Bar-Kokhba?
The 5th century warrior king of a nomadic people who was feared by the Roman Empire
Who was Attila the Hun?
A devout Jew and Pharisee who persecuted Christians because he believed Jesus blasphemed by claiming to be God
Who was Saul of Tarsus?
Roman emperor who signed the Edict of Milan allowing Christians throughout the empire to worship freely
Who was Constantine I?
The place where Christians in Rome would go and pray in secret
What are the catacombs?
The pope who honored St. Valentine with a holiday hoping it would Christianize the Roman festival of Lupercalia
Who was Pope Gelasius?
The Jewish sect who wrote and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls
Who were the Essenes?
A very intelligent who spent 23 years translating the Bible into Latin
Who was Jerome?
Roman emperor who shared his reign and was determined to destroy the Christian faith
Who was Diocletian?
The name of a magnificent fortress built by Herod the Great that Zealot Jews used as a refuge from the Romans
What is Masada?
The Greek word that means "witness," used for those who die for their faith
What is "martyr?"
A group of over 300 bishops who met to settle serious church disputes including whether Jesus is God
What is the Council of Nicea?
A very old statement of the Christian faith written by early Christians
What is the Apostles' Creed?
A man kidnapped by pirates who later became a missionary to the Irish
Who was Patrick?
A time period known for its Gupta rulers, great prosperity, and many inventions/discoveries
What was the Golden Age of India?
The civilization that disappeared from its cities around A.D. 800-900
What was the Mayan civilization? OR Who were the Maya?
Too big to control, expensive and disloyal foreign soldiers, high taxes and inflation, decrease in business and trade between cities, attacks by barbaric tribes, moral decay
What are problems that contibuted to the fall of the Western Roman Empire?