Objectives SWBAT recognize the origins of Christianity SWBAT

Objectives: SWBAT recognize the origins of Christianity. SWBAT identify the impact of Emperor Constantine on world history. Calisthenics: *A brief reminder, Your calisthenics count for 25% of your grade. If you hand them in crumpled and incomplete I will no longer accept them. It is your job to keep them neat and organized this week on the SAME SHEET OF PAPER do not hand them to me on multiple pages this Friday. 1) Which empires ruled during the classical period? 2) What caused the Roman Empire to decline?

Tracking Our Progress Unit 7 Quiz 2 vs. Unit 7 Quiz 3 scores……. Homeroom Unit 7 Quiz 1 Unit 7 Quiz 2 Unit 7 Quiz 3 601 81% 90% 88% 602 86% 87% 82% 603 82% 83% 604 80% 87% 88% 605 75% 89% Unit 7 TEST Goal:

• Christians are people who believe that Jesus Christ is the savior. Christianity is their religion.

• Jesus was born during the Roman Empire. He practiced Judaism.

• Christianity has it's roots in Judaism. Jesus believed in one God, and accepted the 10 Commandments.

• As Jesus become more popular, the Roman government felt threatened by the amount of power that he was gaining. The Roman government executed Jesus by crucifixion.

• Despite his death and persecution, followers still began to practice his teaching and Christianity spread across social classes.

• Christians were persecuted (attacked) until Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and made it legal to practice any religion. • Constantine helped Christianity to spread across the Roman Empire.

• What is the religion called in which people believe that Jesus was the savior? • What Empire did Jesus grow up in? • What religion did Jesus practice? • What do Christianity and Judaism share? • Why did the Roman empire feel threatened by Jesus? • What did the Roman empire do to Jesus? • How did the Roman empire treat Jesus’ followers? • Which was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity? • How did Emperor Constantine change the policy of the Roman Empire towards Christianity?

Global-Lids Today’s Topic: Christianity • ______ are people who believe that _____ Christ is the ______ is their religion. Jesus was born during the _____ Empire. He practiced ________. Christianity has it's roots in Judaism. Jesus believed in _______, and accepted the _________.

How’d We Do? • Christians are people who believe that Jesus Christ is the savior. Christianity is their religion. Jesus was born during the Roman Empire. He practiced Judaism. Christianity has it's roots in Judaism. Jesus believed in one God, and accepted the 10 Commandments.

• As Jesus become more _____, the ___________felt ______ by the amount of power that he was gaining. The Roman government executed Jesus by ________. Despite his death and persecution, _______ still began to practice his teaching and Christianity ______ across social classes. Christians were persecuted (attacked) until Emperor Constantine _______ to Christianity and made it ______ to practice any religion. ______ helped Christianity to _______ across the Roman Empire.

How’d We Do? • As Jesus become more popular, the Roman government felt threatened by the amount of power that he was gaining. The Roman government executed Jesus by crucifixion. Despite his death and persecution, followers still began to practice his teaching and Christianity spread across social classes. Christians were persecuted (attacked) until Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and made it legal to practice any religion. • Constantine helped Christianity to spread across the Roman Empire.

Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan, about 112 CE • I have taken this course about those who have been brought before me as Christians. I asked them whether they were Christians or not? If they confessed that they were Christians, I asked them again, and a third time, intermixing threatenings with the questions. If they persevered in their confession, I ordered them to be executed; for I did not doubt but, let their confession be of any sort whatsoever, this positiveness and inflexible obstinacy deserved to be punished. There have been some of this mad sect whom I took notice of in particular as Roman citizens, that they might be sent to that city. After some time, as is usual in such examinations, the crime spread itself and many more cases came before me.

Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan, about 112 CE • Others of them that were named in the libel, said they were Christians, but presently denied it again; that indeed they had been Christians, but had ceased to be so, some three years, some many more; and one there was that said he had not been so these twenty years. All these worshipped your image, and the images of our gods; these also cursed Christ.