The man who hunted Christians became their greatest missionary, and Rome's own roads carried the church to the city that tried to crush it.
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Students will explain how Paul spread Christianity to Gentiles across the empire, how Roman roads and the Pax Romana helped, why Rome persecuted Christians, and how Constantine ended the persecutions.
Nero's persecution was cruel, and Christians were killed for sport. The lesson says so plainly, because the church's growth under that pressure is the whole point.
U1-L9 follows the empire itself into crisis, the split into East and West, and the fall of the West, while the church Constantine protected outlasts it.
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Part One
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Part Two
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