Friday

• Christianity 
• Jesus spends 3 years preaching, is killed by Roman leaders
• followers believe he's the Messiah and Savior who has risen from the dead
• Saul becomes Paul, spreading Jesus' message
• evolves from cult status to being an official religious structure  
• monotheistic 
• conflicted with Roman beliefs 
• persecution against was common
• Constantine has a conversion
• sees cross in the sky
• tells people to paint a cross on armor 
• Decline of Roman Empire
• Rome has problem 180 AD
• economic
• trade became risky
• taxes were to high
• food supply was dropping
• Military 
• frontiers were really hard to control
• Constantine becomes emperor 
• moves the capital from Rome to Byzantium 
• renames city