Caesar Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus(he has a long name), the first Christian Emperor of Rome, brought relief to Christians by reversing the persecutions of his predecessor, Diocletian, and issued (with his co-emperor Licinius) the Edict of Milan in 313, which proclaimed religious tolerance throughout the empire.
It was when the Crusaders brought it to an end when they went to recapture the Holy City/Jerusalem
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Pagans at the time claimed that because the old gods were no longer worshiped they abandoned the empire to the barbarians (or, alternatively, punished the empire by sending the barbarians). In more modern times, historians such as Gibbon with his monumental "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" claimed that in some unspecified way Christianity weakened the empire. It is impossible to point to any one factor that led to the fall of the Roman Empire: slavery, civil war, economic problems, external factors that caused the barbarians to migrate, the fact that upper class citizens avoided the army, all seem to have played a more important part than the change of religion (unless, of course, the pagans were right after all!) In fact, Emperor Constantine saw Christianity as a means of uniting the empire and strengthening it. In a way he was correct, because the city he founded endured for over a thousand years!
Most people who lived in the Roman Empire were non-Christians until the Empire itself became Christian (and even then, there were many non-Christians). Most people who lived in the Roman Empire were polytheists (especially the Romans; remember, the Romans conquered many other peoples), though not all believed in the same gods. Others were Jews or had other religious beliefs. There were basically no atheists.Another answerNon-Christians were called pagans.
The Christians were regarded with suspician. Rome had always been tolerant of various religions, recognising that different regional gods were really the same, just with different names. When Pompey captured Jerusalem, he immediately went to the temple to sacrifice to Jehovah, recognising he was the same as Jupiter/Zeus. They however cracked down on religions which did not use the temples, regarding them as potential plotters, for which the Greeks were notorious. Trajan stopped persecutions, but it returned later in different parts of the Empire where Christians brought suspicion on themselves. The Christians eventually openly declared themselves non-revolutionary, Constantine and Licinius ended retaliation in the Treaty of Milan, and then Constantine co-opted the Christian bishops as a second force to his secular power.
The Persian Empire was brought to an end by who?
Modern historians say that widespread, official persecution lasted around twelve years in total. Gibbon suggests that under the Christian emperors the tradition of prolonged and widespread persecution of the Christians was created in order to justify the cruel treatment of pagans that was instituted by the Christians themselves once they had taken control of the empire.
The Christians of Rome were, probably unfairly, blamed for starting the Great Fire of Rome. Some thought that any catastrophe that befell may have been brought about by the anger of the gods, because the Christians did not worship them.
The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was created in 1916.
The Great Schism of 1054 occurred among the Christians of Eastern and Western Roman Empire.
The Byzantine Empire was a highly successful state which endured (not counting the centuries of Roman existence before the founding of Constantinople) for 1,123 years. In the end, the Empire was brought down by a combination of the Fourth Crusade (which sacked Constantinople, divided the Empire, and destroyed its structural integrity as a nation), a series of civil wars in the 14th century, and the rise of the powerful Ottoman Turks, who finally captured Constantinople in 1453.
It is said to be 50/50. When The Ottomans conquered The Byzantine Empire, this brought many Orthodox Christians under Muslim Rule. By 1600, They had four out of five Orthodox Churches under their control, which amassed to nearly 500 million.
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It all started by a simple thing for example by the roman empire decline affected the christians because the christians taught that the Romans were gona change who they were but they dint
The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire has 684 pages.
PAGANS
The Christians were not considered enemies of the Roman Empire. What was questioned was their loyalty to the imperial government, rather that their loyalty to the empire as such. Most Christians were citizens of the Roman Empire who converted from paganism to Christianity.